Kalshi Launches Pro Terminal as It Moves Deeper Into Professional Derivatives Trading

Kalshi has spent the past year adding CFTC-regulated perpetual futures and hedge fund clearing access. Its latest move addresses a different gap: the trading interface itself.

The company has launched Kalshi Pro, a trading terminal built for active traders, professional speculators and institutional desks. The new interface complements Kalshi’s retail platform with tools designed for faster execution, order management and deeper market visibility.

It includes advanced charting, a live feed of public trades and expanded order book data, allowing users to manage resting orders and multi-leg positions across multiple markets.

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Serving the Sharps

The launch follows rapid growth in Kalshi’s professional trading activity. The company says annualised trading volume has tripled to $178 billion, with a growing share of activity coming from sophisticated traders, quant funds and so-called sharps that previously relied on custom software and API connections.

"Kalshi's active traders are already trading prediction markets and perpetuals like Wall Street trades equities and bonds," Kalshi Pro product lead Andy Chang told CNBC.

Clear Street already provides hedge fund clients with access to Kalshi’s clearinghouse, while Kalshi Pro introduces a standardized interface for more active trading.

The launch comes shortly after Kalshi introduced CFTC-regulated perpetual futures, becoming the first US venue to offer regulated onshore crypto perps. Those products crossed $1 billion in trading volume within their first week of trading.

Institutional Build-Out

The launch adds Kalshi Pro to a growing institutional stack that already includes Clear Street's clearinghouse access for hedge funds and existing broker integrations. The company has not disclosed how many active traders have migrated to the new interface since launch.

Whether Pro extends to any future move into regulated equity or index perpetuals remains an open question, one that would put Kalshi in more direct competition with established derivatives exchanges like CME and Cboe.