The Block reports that Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour defended the company against a New York lawsuit by comparing its regulatory situation to those of major platforms. Mansour said during a CNBC interview that the same lawsuit could be applied to Nasdaq, Uber, and Airbnb.
Prediction markets keep colliding with state-level gambling and securities regulators, and the outcome here signals how much room CFTC-registered venues actually have to operate nationally. If you're building anything touching event contracts or market-style crypto products, watch whether courts accept the federal-preemption framing, since a loss could fragment your legal exposure state by state. The Nasdaq/Uber comparison is a rhetorical bet that regulators are misapplying old categories, but it doesn't resolve the underlying jurisdiction question.
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