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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

and offering a financial product.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And I think in that industry, I would say like, regulation is a very critical component or pillar of how you build things.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so we define a principle which is regulatory first.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

We're gonna do everything regulated upfront,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And what it regularly means to think at a high level is like, you know, figure out like customer protection, like make sure that people understand what they're getting into and what they're doing.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And number two is market integrity or this idea of fairness.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Create rules that are fair and, you know, for the different participants.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It's right, like if you're getting into a game that is not fair, you don't want to participate in that or whether it's like anything in life.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And like if it's, and so you have to kind of create it

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

like the stock market, a set of rules that like make it fair.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so like the stock market, the way that we've regulated this, you know, we worked for four years before we launched a single product.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So working with the CFC, which is the federal regulator, to regulate this lack of financial market.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so you have the same set of prohibitions.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So like, you know, like market manipulation is not allowed, things like wash trading, spoofing, and then like this notion of insider trading and what it means, like what is insider trading and how do you define it?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so that is regulated like exactly like the stock market.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so we have the same sort of set of protections.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

We have systems that flag for these things.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And then if you flag somebody who committed it, you know, it could go from a fine to like if you commit insider trading on a stock, it could be like a financial crime, like it could be criminal prosecution.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And so it's an interesting question.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like when it comes to companies, it's very similar to...