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Zuckerberg\'s Meta pursued Kalshi acquisition but talks fell through, shifts to building its own app

Mark Zuckerberg (마크 저커버그), Meta\'s CEO, pursued an acquisition of prediction market company Kalshi, but the effort fell through, NPR reported. Zuckerberg met Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour (타렉 만수르) last year to discuss a deal, but talks did not advance. NPR reported Mansour refused to sell and Meta was uneasy about legal and ethical issues surrounding Kalshi. Zuckerberg later formed a team to build Meta’s own prediction market app, Arena.

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U.S. approves first bitcoin perpetual futures contract as Kalshi lists BTCPERP

Prediction market platform Kalshi has started offering bitcoin perpetual futures trading to U.S. retail investors. It launched BTCPERP, which it said was the first perpetual futures product approved by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The contract has no expiry, tracks the bitcoin spot price and is cash-settled, with trading planned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Kalshi and rivals such as Kraken are preparing to expand regulated perpetual offerings.

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U.S. House panel opens probe into suspected insider trading at Kalshi, Polymarket

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has asked the chief executives of prediction-market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket to submit internal records as it examines responses to suspected insider trading. Chair James Comer raised concerns about more than 80 bets with suspicious timing linked to a U.S. military operation involving Iran. He also cited worries that elected officials and government authorities may be profiting from nonpublic information.