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A former contender for governor of California has been banned from Kalshi after betting on his own candidacy last year in violation of insider trading rules, the prediction market platform said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

According<\/a> to a statement from Kalshi\u2019s head of enforcement, Robert DeNault, the politician bet about $200 on his candidacy for governor of California and posted about it on X, leading to a five-year suspension on the prediction market platform and a $2,000 penalty.<\/p>\n

Kalshi did not name the politician, but said he is no longer running for governor and is now running for Congress. <\/p>\n

The description appears to fit Kyle Langford, a former Republican turned Democrat who is now running for election to the US House to represent the California\u2019s 26th Congressional District. <\/p>\n

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Source: <\/em>Kyle Langford<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an X post published on May 25, 2025, Langford shared a video of himself placing the bet on Kalshi, putting $98.76 on the odds of him winning. <\/p>\n

Kalshi said the account did not withdraw any profits and that the case was reported to the CFTC. <\/p>\n

Cointelegraph reached out to Langford for further comment but didn\u2019t receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kalshi said it also handed out penalties to a YouTube editor who traded about $4,000 on YouTube stream markets between August and September 2025 \u2014 also violating Kalshi\u2019s insider trading rules, resulting in a two-year penalty and a roughly $20,000 fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur surveillance systems flagged his near-perfect trading success on markets with low odds, which were statistically anomalous,\u201d said Kalshi, which, with the help of other traders on the platform, identified where he worked and concluded that he likely had access to material non-public information.<\/p>\n

While Kalshi didn\u2019t name the YouTube editor, mainstream media have widely reported that to be Artem Kaptur, an employee of the popular YouTuber MrBeast.<\/p>\n

Source: <\/em>Tarek Mansour<\/em><\/a>
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Kalshi, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission-regulated platform, said it has investigated 200 cases<\/a> and frozen several flagged accounts. It has more than a dozen active cases.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Kalshi strengthened its surveillance efforts<\/a> by establishing a surveillance audit committee and partnering with crypto trading surveillance platform Solidus Labs to \u201cdetect, investigate, and address market abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those efforts come in response to an uptick in regulatory scrutiny of prediction markets as they enter the mainstream.<\/p>\n