A market for
what happens next

A prediction market is essentially a betting book with a wider purpose: when participants put balance behind a view, the resulting price reads as the crowd's current best guess at the outcome. The mechanism has decades of academic support and a track record of beating polls and pundits at the margin.

Qalshi packages that mechanism into something anyone can pick up. While the platform is in preview, balances aren't real, so the only thing on the line is bragging rights and your leaderboard position — useful for learning the moves before the stakes (might) change.

The catalogue covers what we think people actually want to forecast: politics, crypto, sports, finance, climate, and the rolling news cycle. We're paying particular attention to markets that don't fit a U.S.-only worldview — cricket fixtures, South Asian elections, regional finance, and global culture sit alongside the usual American beats.