Prediction market platform Kalshi has launched Kalshi Pro, a desktop platform for professional traders in the United States.

Cryptopolitan reported on Sunday that as the U.S. prediction market industry accelerates efforts to attract institutional and experienced investors, a trend toward tighter regulation is also becoming more pronounced in Europe.

Kalshi Pro targets users who need to trade multiple markets at the same time or respond quickly to real-time events. It also targets traders who mainly use limit orders that execute only at a specified price. It is currently available for free and uses the same account and balance as the existing Kalshi app.

Kalshi's annual trading volume was $178 billion, tripling from the same period. A significant share came from quantitative trading firms and professional traders known as "sharps". Kalshi integrated into one platform the customized workflows, direct data connections and in-house software capabilities they have used.

It also added advanced tools that traditional brokerages and exchanges have provided to professional stock and bond traders. Andy Chang (앤디 창), chief product officer of Kalshi Pro, said, "Kalshi's high-volume traders are already treating prediction markets and perpetual futures the way Wall Street trades stocks and bonds," and added, "We built a platform that fits them."

Key features include Canvas, which lets users view and trade multiple markets at once on a single screen. Active Markets Screener was designed to monitor about 2,000 active markets at once, and includes risk management functions such as stop-loss and take-profit orders. It also supports perpetual futures trading alongside licensed TradingView charts.

The launch comes shortly after Kalshi became the first in the United States to offer crypto perpetual futures under direct oversight by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Trading volume in the product reached $1 billion within a week of its launch. This confirms a trend in which prediction market platforms are expanding beyond simple event betting into derivatives-style trading infrastructure.

In Italy, by contrast, regulatory pressure is rising again. Polymarket, one of the world's major prediction market platforms, was again added to the official blocking list of Italy's Agency for Customs and Monopolies (ADM). ADM judged that Polymarket does not comply with Italy's gambling laws.

Polymarket has argued that it is a financial service, not a gambling product. It also said users in Italy can only view market data and cannot actually trade. Even so, ADM's decision to put it back on the blacklist shows that regulators in various countries are stepping up monitoring of prediction market platforms operating without local authorization.

Even within the prediction market industry, regional trajectories are diverging. In the United States, services and derivatives aimed at professional traders are expanding, while some European countries are raising entry barriers on the basis of gambling laws and advertising rules. In this environment, prediction market platforms are pushing expansion by emphasizing an identity as financial services, and regulators are pushing back by revisiting them within existing gambling regulatory frameworks.