Polymarket team members accuse Kalshi of data falsification, claiming that their eSports trading volume has been exaggerated by 26 times

CycleProphet · 2026-02-05T07:46:18+00:00

Polymarket team member shampoo accused competitor Kalshi of inflating their esports trading volume through data manipulation, claiming that Kalshi artificially increased trading volume to approximately $1.7 billion by adding a generalized "esports" category, when in fact it was only $63 million, with issues of double counting. Users can verify the data themselves.

CycleProphet

2026-02-05 07:46:18

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, February 5th, the prediction market platform Polymarket team member shampoo posted on social media accusing competitor Kalshi of falsifying data to exaggerate its trading volume in the esports sector. shampoo stated that the platform artificially increased approximately $1.7 billion in trading volume by adding a generalized “esports” category, while actual data shows its esports trading volume is only about $63 million, less than 10% of Polymarket’s esports trading volume. Additionally, Kalshi also counted the CS market as both CS:GO and CS2 for double counting.

shampoo said on social media that users can verify this themselves by checking the API data in network requests.

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