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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

whether it's in drugs or in financial markets or whatever, to basically pressure test your systems.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And we've done four years of pressure testing before we went live.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Now, kind of since start to finish, we started in 2019, now we're basically 2026.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

It's been like seven years of pressure testing the system.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So the systems work really well.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like it's working as intended.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And you see, you probably have noticed, like you don't really, like there haven't been kind of cases of like people doing bad things on cash because it was very regulated.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

We asked you for your KYC, all the trades are reported to the government.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like it's kind of a bad place to try to commit fraud.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

There are other alternatives offshore, unregulated, and it's easier way to do it, right?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like if you want to do something weird with crypto, you probably won't go to Coinbase.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

You'll probably go to some offshore, you know, exchange that like offers similar services because there's no KYC.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

They don't know who you are.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

They don't report things to the government.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So that's one.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So I think in cash, those risks are very largely mitigated because of our regulated nature.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Two, there's something else that's interesting, which is,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

The rules for an exchange, the way an exchange, which is an SRO, a self regulated organization,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

you have to have a bifurcation between the commercial business aspects and the market surveillance regulatory functions.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So the market surveillance regulatory functions report to the CRO who reports directly to the board.