Prediction Market Institutional-Data-Distribution Map
Where Kalshi, Polymarket, and CDNA signal flows into TradFi — exclusive wholesale vs. open multi-partner models, with a primary source on every row.
Relationships Documented
11
Verified
5
Pending Verification
6
Last Verified
2026-04-22
What This Page Tracks
Scope, methodology, and sourcing policy for institutional-data-distribution claims.
A neutral, source-linked map of how prediction-market data reaches institutional and retail-research customers. It does not rank platforms, does not recommend data products, and does not render live pricing. Every relationship links to a primary press release, SEC filing, or exchange announcement.
Methodology: Tracks documented channels through which prediction-market data reaches institutional and retail-research customers. Excludes sponsorship/marketing deals (tracked separately on /prediction-market-partnerships). Each row cites a primary press release, exchange announcement, or SEC filing. Rows without a verified primary source render as 'Primary-source verification pending' and are excluded from matrix totals.
Narrative Context (added 2026-04-22)
Recorded press framing that informs the page without changing the underlying source rows.
Bloomberg has moved from a co-leader frame to a lead-reversal frame on prediction-market US volume. Piece: “Polymarket Loses Prediction-Market Lead After Delays, Blowback” (Annie Massa, Emily Nicolle, Isis Almeida, Katherine Doherty, 2026-04-22).
What this means for the page below: This page maps documented institutional-data-distribution relationships; it does not rank platforms on product quality. The Bloomberg piece frames Polymarket's ICE-exclusive wholesale path as having compounded product delays into a volume-lead reversal. No row on this page changes based on this observation; we flag the shift so readers reading the exclusive-wholesale-vs-open-multi-partner contrast understand the fresh narrative framing.
Read the Bloomberg pieceCorroborated by: Unchained (2026-04-23), Associated Press (2026-04-23)
Two Structurally Opposite Playbooks
Kalshi stays exclusive-wholesale while Polymarket expands through an open multi-partner model.
Kalshi
Open / multi-partner
Derived from the 8 documented relationships in rows[]; no exclusivity language found in any Kalshi press release as of 2026-04-21.
Polymarket
Exclusive wholesale (institutional-data layer only)
ICE press release (2026-03-27) uses 'exclusive' framing for the market-data distribution arrangement; Polymarket has separately shipped direct web/app access to retail.
CDNA (Crypto.com / Derivatives North America) is an infrastructure wholesaler to white-label partners and has not yet announced a direct institutional-data-distribution channel as of 2026-04-22.
The Map
All documented platform-channel relationships, filterable by platform, channel, and verification status.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
Announced: 2026-03-27 · Up to $2,000,000,000 reported
Institutional market-data distribution; redistribution via ICE Consolidated Feed and terminal/vendor channels.
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
ICE Consolidated Feed — "Polymarket Signals and Sentiment"
Announced: 2026-02
Named SKU in the ICE Consolidated Feed product line.
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
ARK Invest
Announced: 2026-03-26
Institutional research and risk-management input.
ProCap Financial (Nasdaq: BRR) — ProCap Insights
Announced: 2026-04-21
Co-branded institutional-grade research product; reports on individual markets, platform trends, and data-driven strategies. Reported as the first Kalshi data feed into a research provider with paying subscribers.
Kairos (a16z strategic investment, reported $2.5M)
Announced: date pending
Prediction-market terminal integration (Bloomberg-class venue, institutional-grade).
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
Charles Schwab Corp.
Announced: 2026-04-16 · Not disclosed (no commercial commitment).
On-record CEO statement that Schwab is 'taking a hard look' at prediction markets; explicit category-fence — would stay away from sports/pop-culture; focus on finance-event/long-term-wealth integration. No commercial commitment or product launch announced.
Rick Wurster (CEO)
Q1 2026 earnings call / public commentary cycle (Apr 16)
Earnings-call references = signal of institutional consideration, not commercial deployment. Row remains a directional indicator until a product or partnership is announced.
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM (Wurster 'hard look' + 'stay away from sports' phrases; Bloomberg paraphrase vs direct-quote distinction must be preserved verbatim).
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
Robinhood Markets
Announced: 2026-04-14 · Not disclosed at this venue. Volume corroboration: 3.4B contracts Jan-2026 (Forbes Advisor citing Robinhood public disclosure).
On-record CEO statement positioning Robinhood's prediction-market integration (powered by Kalshi infrastructure) as a long-horizon retail-investing product complement to retirement accounts. Forbes Advisor (Apr 2) corroborates 3.4B prediction-market contracts in January 2026 alone via Robinhood's Kalshi-powered access.
Vlad Tenev (CEO)
CNBC interview (Apr 14, 2026) + public earnings-cycle commentary
Robinhood is a Kalshi-rail brokerage (per US_PLATFORMS.md infrastructure map), not a self-op DCM. Row catalogs the CEO's product-positioning frame; volume-claim corroboration only via Forbes Advisor primary-source citation of Robinhood disclosure.
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM (Tenev retirement-positioning quote — direct-quote vs paraphrase distinction must be preserved).
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
Citadel Securities (public signaling)
Announced: date pending
Public signaling of Polymarket-related activity; awaiting a direct primary-source filing or statement.
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
FIS Global — Cleared Derivatives Solution for Prediction Markets
Announced: 2026-03-24
Cleared-derivatives solution with Kalshi; institutional-grade clearing infrastructure.
BitGo + Susquehanna International Group
Announced: 2026-03-24
Institutional OTC access to prediction markets; large-position execution off-book.
DAZN (triple-leg stack: Polymarket data embed + ADI Predictstreet FIFA + Sports Marketing 1 LLC NFA IB filing)
Announced: 2026-04-21
Three-leg sports-streamer integration: (1) Jan 20, 2026 Polymarket broadcast data embed + CFTC intent; (2) Apr 13, 2026 ADI Predictstreet FIFA World Cup 2026 multi-event product partnership (GlobeNewswire); (3) Apr 21, 2026 Sports Marketing 1 LLC (DAZN-affiliated UK entity) NFA Introducing Broker membership application. Own-IB filing pending approval; FCM plans from Jan 20 announcement unchanged.
Verbatim: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE_VERBATIM
Last verified: PENDING_PRIMARY_SOURCE
Investors that are not distribution partners
Tradeweb Markets
Announced: 2026-02
Strategic investment and partnership to expand institutional access to prediction markets.
Investor relationship ≠ data-distribution channel; rendered as a footer row, not in the main matrix.
Tradeweb Newsroom, 2026-02Channel Glossary
Definitions for each institutional-distribution channel referenced in the map.
Exclusive wholesale distributor
A single distribution partner that holds exclusive rights to redistribute a platform's market data to institutional customers (terminal, vendor, or feed).
Direct institutional consumer (research input)
An institutional asset manager or research firm that uses a platform's data internally as a research or risk-management input, without redistribution.
Productized research resale (paid-subscriber tier)
A third-party research product that packages a platform's data into published research notes sold on a paid-subscription basis.
Terminal integration (Bloomberg-class venue)
A professional financial terminal that surfaces prediction-market prices and signals alongside equities, fixed income, and derivatives.
Consolidated signals feed (market-data product)
A productized feed of derived signals (sentiment, probabilities, sector aggregates) sold as a named SKU by a market-data vendor.
TradFi earnings-call references
Documented instances where a publicly traded TradFi firm cited prediction-market data during an earnings call or shareholder letter.
Clearing-infrastructure partner
An FCM or cleared-derivatives solution provider that builds institutional plumbing on top of a platform's DCM.
Institutional OTC access
A market-maker or prime-broker-style channel that lets institutional traders execute large positions off-book with a single counterparty.
What the Split Means
Implications of exclusive wholesale versus open multi-partner distribution.
Exclusive ≠ better
An 'exclusive wholesale' model (Polymarket → ICE) is not better or worse than an 'open multi-partner' model (Kalshi). It is a different product decision about who owns the distribution layer. Bloomberg-terminal desks see Polymarket differently than ProCap-tier retail researchers see Kalshi.
Partnerships are not a quality ranking
Institutional-data partnerships are not a ranking of platform quality. An open model attracts more resellers; an exclusive model attracts deeper per-customer integration. Both are observable; neither is a verdict.
Why this matters to you
When a Schwab earnings call mentions prediction-market positioning, or when a hedge-fund research note cites 'Kalshi-derived Fed probabilities,' the pipeline that got the number there is one of the channels on this page. Understanding the channel is how you read the signal.
Our Policy on This Page
What we will and will not claim when documenting institutional-data relationships.
- We do not rank platforms on this page.
- We do not recommend any data product, feed, terminal, or research tier.
- We do not render live pricing.
- We do not treat 'exclusive wholesale' and 'open multi-partner' as moral or quality verdicts. Both are observable product decisions.
- We do not describe any relationship that has not been verified against a primary source. Pending rows render 'Primary-source verification pending' and are excluded from the filterable grid.
- We do not reproduce subscriber-gated research content (ProCap Insights, ARK research notes, ICE feed content).
- We do not name individuals except where the individual's name appears in a primary-source press release or SEC filing.
- We do not use the words 'fraud,' 'unethical,' or 'conflict' except where a primary source uses that word.
- When a Tier-1 outlet (Reuters / Bloomberg / WSJ / NYT / FT) publishes a named narrative-frame shift that affects the reader context of this page, we record the shift in narrativeShifts[] and render a neutral Narrative-Context callout. We do not rewrite rows to match the new frame. Rows change only on primary-source evidence.
Corrections & Update Log
Tracked changes to rows, source links, or relationship labels.
Primary Sources
Approved domains plus the page-level banned-source policy.
We block 30 competitor / affiliate-farm domains from being cited on this page. If an aggregator packages a primary-source announcement we track, we link the primary source directly.
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