
Udesh Jha
106 posts

Udesh Jha
@udeshjha
Head of Exchange Analytics(Kalshi), ex-CME/BofA/Capital One/QRM/IBM


We’ve spent months going deep on this. Court decisions, CFTC rulemaking history, statutory text, market convention going back decades. The answer is not ambiguous: crypto perpetuals are futures. It may be tempting to look at the cash settlement, the funding rate, the no-expiry structure and say “this looks like a swap.” But the law doesn’t work on vibes. It has definitions. And those definitions have a history. Watch Kalshi’s Udesh Jha make the case on @CoinDesk. coindesk.com/video/are-cryp…


Took 1 week for Kalshi Perps to get to $1B, and we haven't even launched publicly yet Prediction markets took 3.5 years to get to $1B

Danny Moses explores the power of prediction markets, using Kalshi to forecast economic trends and stock moves. bit.ly/4oanaTY



$100m traded in perps in the first 24 hours!!! Less than 1% of our waitlist is in, WE PROMISE TO LET YOU IN SOON!!! 💚💚


The Special One.

Bitcoin Perpetuals are now live for trading. The First American Perpetual Future. Only on Kalshi.


.@CFTC Chairman Selig Announces Dr. Patrick J. Schorno as Chief Economist: cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres…




Introducing the Kalshi American Power Index. This is the S&P 500 of politics. Track the shifting balance of power between Democrats and Republicans, backed by our data.





