Kalshi Traffic Jumps 1,520% as Market Share Expands
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Kalshi US Visits Soars 1,500% as Regulatory Pressure Mounts
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Published: Sep 4, 2026
Kalshi’s US web traffic climbed more than 1,500% in less than a year, while trading volume grew even faster and legal scrutiny of its sports contracts intensified.
Major prediction market platform Kalshi has seen its US web traffic explode over the past year, underscoring the platform’s rapid growth while regulators and courts scrutinize its expanding event-contract business.
According to Similarweb traffic estimates, Kalshi recorded:
- 15.4 million visits from the United States in July, up about 1,520% from just under 1 million in August 2025.
- Nearly 80% of Kalshi’s traffic in July came from the US, up from 72.8% in August 2025.
This growth comes amidst mounting legal challenges over whether Kalshi’s sports contracts fall under federal oversight or state gambling laws, with New Jersey taking the dispute to the US Supreme Court.
Trading volume outpaces traffic growth:
Kalshi’s surge in web traffic has been accompanied by even faster growth in trading activity. Kalshi recorded about $40 billion in monthly notional trading volume in August, up from $874 million a year earlier – an increase of roughly 4,500%.
Source: Dune Analytics prediction market data dashboard.
Across the prediction-market industry, monthly notional volume rose to $50.7 billion from about $2 billion over the same period, with Kalshi accounting for nearly 79% of the latest total.
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Kalshi draws growing traffic from restricted jurisdictions:
Canada generated about 450,000 visits to Kalshi’s website in July, up from roughly 50,000 in August 2025, while UK traffic increased to 296,000 from 31,000.
Both Canada and the UK are among the jurisdictions where Kalshi’s member agreement currently prohibits users from directly accessing or trading on Kalshi’s platform. Kalshi partnered with Canadian financial services company Wealthsimple in June to provide access to nearly 4,000 eligible Kalshi contracts through a separate app.
Kalshi website traffic by country in July 2026 and August 2025:
Source: Similarweb
From August 2025 to July 2026, Canada’s share of Kalshi’s traffic slipped to 2.3% from 3.8%, while the UK’s share fell to 1.5% from 2.4%, even as visits from both countries increased.
Cointelegraph contacted Kalshi for comment on the traffic from restricted jurisdictions but had not received a response by publication.