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Alex Heath

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

So the CME does like $3 trillion of volume a day.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And it's a massive market.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

There's very large diversity of participants in the U.S.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

and outside of the U.S.,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Some of it is institutional.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

A lot of it is retail.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And then you have the S&P futures.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

You have a bunch of different kind of products.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

But it's a regulator that has kind of overseen like mass, mass amounts of data, like mass amounts of transactions on a daily basis across the board.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And yes, you could have a composition.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And I think it's not as kind of... We still have sort of a concentration of volume amongst the kind of like prosumer traders and institutions.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

These things are not like...

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

they're not like uniform right it's not like you have 100 traders that do equal amount of volumes it's kind of very tilted and it's also existing in the traditional markets you have kind of a kind of a long tail distribution uh or like a skewed distribution and but the important thing here is like actually and this is very interesting when people look to commit fraud

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

they don't do it for like 10 bucks or $20, right?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like they usually, you know, they try to make money out of it, right?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Otherwise, why are you violating the law?

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

And the fortunate thing about that is that the larger the size, the easier it is to flag.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

The more unusual the pattern is.

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

You know, it's like, you know, when someone, for example, goes out,

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Betting on Reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: ACCESS

Like when you hear about the SEC investigate some insider trading, it's because usually some trader at a bank bought a kind of an out of the money option two days before earnings.