Kalshi said on 29 October, announcing a $1 billion Series G at a $40 billion post-money valuation, that it now has “over $1 billion in non-sports annualized revenue”. Robinhood reported event contracts revenue of $173 million for the third quarter of 2026, about $692 million at an annual pace.
By our arithmetic, Kalshi’s stated non-sports run rate is about 1.4x Robinhood’s event contracts revenue on an annualized basis. The comparison uses Kalshi’s own annualized figure against Robinhood’s reported quarter multiplied by four.
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The key insight: Kalshi says its non-sports annualized revenue is over $1 billion, about 1.4x Robinhood’s third-quarter event contracts revenue of $173 million at an annual pace, by our arithmetic, while Rothera, which Robinhood calls a new business cylinder, reached over $100 million in annualized revenues in its first full quarter, Robinhood says.
Kalshi’s announcement says the round was co-led by Wellington and Sequoia. It says the overall business’s annualized trading volume “now exceeds $1 trillion”, that “Over 30 million Kalshi accounts have been made” and that Kalshi accounts for “over 75% of prediction market trading volume”.
The company says commodities has grown into a business generating “more than $100 million in annualized trading fees in just three months”, and that its international retail business “is approaching $100 million in annualized trading fees”.
Kalshi says it will use the capital to launch “indices, single-stock perpetual futures, and compute markets” and to invest in international expansion, “with a focus on Latin America and Europe”.
Kalshi says it has over $1 billion in non-sports annualized revenue (announcement, 29 October 2026). Robinhood reported Q3 2026 options revenue of $399 million and event contracts revenue of $173 million (release, 27 October 2026); the x4 annualization and the 1.4x ratio are our arithmetic.
What Was Posted on X
Absolutely wild that Kalshi’s non-sports revenue is on track to overtake $HOOD’s options revenue after barely generating anything at the start of 2025.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says “Kalshi continues to experience significant growth, with Q4 revenue currently on track to surpass
@stocksavvyshay posted on 30 October that Kalshi’s non-sports revenue is on track to overtake Robinhood’s options revenue, and quoted Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Kalshi’s growth and fourth-quarter revenue. The claim and the quotation are the poster’s.
What Robinhood Reported
Robinhood’s third-quarter release, dated 27 October, says transaction-based revenues rose 19% to $867 million, “primarily driven by event contracts revenue of $173 million, up over 6x”. Options revenue was $399 million, up 31%, and total net revenues were $1.42 billion.
The release also says “Rothera reached over $100 million in annualized revenues in its first full quarter of operation”, with over 6.4 billion contracts traded since launch. Robinhood says event contracts trade through its Prediction Markets Hub and that each contract is “worth $1 upon settlement”. This piece’s headline calls that revenue line Robinhood’s bets.
The Business Lever: A New Revenue Pool for Brokers and Exchanges
In Robinhood’s quarter, event contracts revenue of $173 million was larger than its equities revenue of $121 million and its cryptocurrencies revenue of $120 million, and smaller than options at $399 million. Kalshi, for its part, frames non-sports revenue as the growth beyond its first product, saying “Sports brought millions of people to Kalshi” and that it is extending network effects into politics, crypto, economics, commodities and perpetual futures.
The X post that prompted this piece, from @stocksavvyshay on 30 October, compares a different pair of lines: Kalshi’s non-sports revenue against Robinhood’s options revenue, in a chart with no stated source. The post quotes Kalshi chief executive Tarek Mansour as saying “Kalshi continues to experience significant growth, with Q4 revenue currently on track to surpass Robinhood’s revenue”.
The Structural Read
As we read the two releases, both companies now report prediction-market revenue at scale: Kalshi as an exchange, and Robinhood through event contracts revenue that was larger in the quarter than its equities or cryptocurrencies revenue.
As we read Kalshi’s announcement, the non-sports figure is the point of the release: the company says sports brought users in and that it is extending network effects into politics, crypto, economics, commodities and perpetual futures.
As we read Robinhood’s release, the company now has a second new revenue line beside event contracts: Rothera, which it says reached over $100 million in annualized revenues in its first full quarter, with over 6.4 billion contracts traded since launch.
FOR BROKERS Robinhood reported event contracts revenue of $173 million in the third quarter, up over 6x, larger than its equities and cryptocurrencies revenue.
FOR EXCHANGES Kalshi says it accounts for over 75% of prediction market trading volume and is launching indices, single-stock perpetual futures and compute markets.
FOR THE COMPARISON Kalshi gives an annualized figure and Robinhood a quarterly one, so the 1.4x ratio depends on multiplying Robinhood’s quarter by four.
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As we read it, Kalshi’s list of partners, including Interactive Brokers, Stripe, PayPal and Block, is the distribution side of that idea for an exchange. The framework was published in December 2025 and does not discuss Kalshi or Robinhood.
What Is Not Established
We did not find Mansour’s quoted statement in Kalshi’s Series G announcement or in his recent posts on X that we read, so it is attributed to the post. Kalshi’s announcement gives an annualized figure, not quarterly revenue, and it does not say how non-sports revenue is measured.
Kalshi’s figure is the company’s own statement in its announcement. The 1.4x comparison sets an annualized company claim against a reported quarter multiplied by four, and the post’s quarterly Kalshi bars, including the fourth-quarter one, are its own figures. Related coverage: today’s market close and Instinct’s agent integrations.
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Kalshi says its non-sports annualized revenue is over $1 billion, and Robinhood reported $173 million of event contracts revenue in the third quarter, about $692 million at an annual pace. By our arithmetic, Kalshi’s stated figure is about 1.4x Robinhood’s on that basis, while the claim that Kalshi will pass Robinhood’s options revenue rests on the X post and its chart.
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A note on sourcing. Kalshi’s figures come from its Series G announcement of 29 October 2026 on its newsroom. Robinhood’s figures come from its third-quarter 2026 results release of 27 October 2026. The Mansour quotation is attributed to the X post that carried it. We did not contact Kalshi or Robinhood. Figures labelled our arithmetic are our own.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
