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Mesh and Kalshi Partner to Add Crypto Deposits and Payouts for Prediction Markets

finance.yahoo.com · Tue, May 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM GMT+8

Mesh and Kalshi are partnering to let Kalshi users fund accounts and receive payouts through crypto wallets and exchanges, adding a digital-asset payments layer to one of the fastest-growing regulated prediction market platforms. The integration connects Kalshi users to more than 300 wallets and exchanges, including Coinbase (NASDAQ: $COIN), Binance, MetaMask and Phantom, and supports crypto deposits through a few-tap flow designed to reduce manual transfer errors. Prediction markets are becoming a larger part of the market-data and trading conversation, but funding access can still feel fragmented for users who already hold assets across different wallets, exchanges and chains.

Mesh is trying to sit in that gap by routing deposits through the correct network automatically and using real-time address validation for payouts. For Kalshi, the goal is simpler access to crypto-native liquidity as its user base expands beyond the U.S. into more than 140 countries.

The timing also lines up with a sharp rise in prediction market activity. The release cited 4.3x growth in trading volume over the past year and said Kalshi processed $5.8 billion in monthly volume during late 2025. Kalshi also recently reached an $11 billion valuation and $100 billion in annual trading volume, while Mesh said its own network now reaches more than 900 million users worldwide following a $75 million Series C and $1 billion valuation.

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Mesh co-founder and CEO Bam Azizi said the future of finance will be tokenized but fragmented across wallets, exchanges and assets, making unified infrastructure more important. John Wang, Kalshi’s head of crypto, said crypto-native traders have already shown strong market engagement, but infrastructure has been the barrier.

For prediction markets, the partnership points to a more practical next step: making the path between crypto balances, regulated event contracts and user payouts less messy as the category scales.