Kalshi Crypto markets in numbers
In the public Becker Kalshi dataset (markets created Jun 2021 to Nov 2025), Kalshi's Crypto category had 1,868,823 markets across 135 series, with 829.8M contracts traded; 90.9% of markets never traded and 26.3% of settled markets resolved YES.
Historical snapshot · source: Becker Kalshi dataset and Kalshi public API · page updated · these numbers as JSON
Price markets on Bitcoin, Ether and other coins, mostly as hourly and daily ladders. Each event lists many strike levels or price ranges, which is why this category has very large market counts and a high share of markets that never traded.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Series | 135 |
| Markets | 1,868,823 |
| Events | 27,038 |
| Contracts traded | 829,768,256 |
| Markets never traded | 1,698,984 (90.9%) |
| Settled markets (yes or no) | 1,852,082 |
| Resolved YES | 486,634 (26.3% of settled) |
| Resolved NO | 1,365,448 (73.7% of settled) |
| First market created | Mar 16, 2024 |
| Last market created | Nov 23, 2025 |
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By year the market was created
| Year | Markets | Contracts traded | Never traded | Settled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 89,826 | 164,262,646 | 72.1% | 89,800 |
| 2025 | 1,778,997 | 665,505,610 | 91.9% | 1,762,282 |
Highest-volume series in Crypto
| Series | Kalshi title | Markets | Contracts traded | Never traded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXBTCD | Bitcoin price Above/below | 391,205 | 465,236,379 | 85.9% |
| KXBTC | Bitcoin range | 390,525 | 142,575,482 | 89.2% |
| KXETHD | Ethereum price Above/below | 390,525 | 61,474,960 | 93.5% |
| KXETH | Ethereum range | 390,525 | 41,772,237 | 94.0% |
| KXBTCMAXY | How high will Bitcoin get this year? | 18 | 25,477,785 | 0.0% |
| KXETHMAXY | How high will Ethereum get this year? | 13 | 15,790,905 | 0.0% |
| KXBTCMAX150 | When will bitcoin hit 150k? | 14 | 15,008,499 | 0.0% |
| KXBTCMAX125 | When will bitcoin hit 125k? | 17 | 14,561,675 | 0.0% |
| KXBTCMINY | How low will Bitcoin fall this year? | 12 | 12,542,940 | 0.0% |
| KXETHMINY | How low will Ethereum fall this year? | 11 | 6,133,172 | 0.0% |
Compare categories: volume by year · share never traded · YES share by category
Why YES shares are often low or near half: ladders and brackets list many mutually exclusive outcomes per event and only one resolves YES, while game markets come in pairs with one winner. The share reflects how markets are structured, not a forecast or a trading rule.
Build with this data
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Method
- Series = the text before the first hyphen of
event_ticker(same rule as State of Kalshi). - Category = the label Kalshi's public API gives that series today (fetched Oct 17, 2026), applied to every market in the series, including older markets. Labels may differ from what Kalshi showed when a market was listed.
- Contracts = the sum of the
volumefield in the markets files. It counts contracts, not dollars. - Never traded = markets with
volumeof zero. Settled = markets whoseresultis yes or no. - Counts only. No prices are used, and nothing here is a forecast, a trading rule or financial advice.
Source
Market data: Becker Kalshi dataset (Jon Becker, prediction-market-analysis), data dump downloaded Jul 30, 2026, covering markets created Jun 30, 2021 to Nov 23, 2025. Category labels: Kalshi public API (GET /trade-api/v2/series). Computed with DuckDB over all markets files. This is a historical snapshot, not live data. Dataset snapshot date: Oct 17, 2026.