Report: CFTC Eyes Unusual $5B Trading Pattern on Kalshi ETH Perpetuals
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Kalshi said nearly $5 billion of similarly sized Ether perpetual trades were tied to its liquidity incentive programs and denied that the activity was wash trading. Another report said the CFTC is reviewing unusual trading on Kalshi’s Ethereum perpetual futures market, with close to one million trades clustered around the same $5,500 order size since August.
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What it means
Kalshi users and traders who interacted with the Ether perpetual market would notice that the trading pattern is being described publicly as unusual, while Kalshi says the activity fits its liquidity incentives. That leaves the market’s recent activity under scrutiny today, even though the company has said the trades were not wash trading.
In practice, the market can still show large volumes of similarly sized trades, but the question now is whether that pattern is being examined by the CFTC. The trading itself is not described as having stopped, and the size clustering around $5,500 remains part of the reported activity.
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Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 44 days ago | CFTC warns ‘mention market’ prediction contracts carry heightened manipulation risk event | 1 actors in common · 5 news media |
| 44 days ago | CFTC Chairman Selig says markets must prepare for ‘mass tokenization’ event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |
| 44 days ago | SEC Clears Tokenized Stocks To Trade Onchain As CFTC Widens Software Relief event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |