DoubleZero Foundation has expanded its DoubleZero Edge market-data platform to include real-time feeds from Kalshi’s election and politics contracts. The addition arrives less than two months before the November 3 U.S. midterm elections and gives institutional and automated traders access to the same low-latency infrastructure already used for Kalshi’s sports event contracts and crypto perpetual futures.

The subscription service delivers Level 1 data covering top-of-book quotes and trades together with Level 2 depth-of-book information aggregated by price. Data travels over DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network, allowing firms to incorporate the feeds directly into existing models, risk systems and automated strategies without assembling order-book state from separate API responses.

Institutional Access to Political Market Signals

Kalshi operates as a federally regulated exchange for event contracts tied to political, economic and other outcomes. Its election markets provide a continuously updating, tradable measure of shifting expectations around races that will decide control of the House and Senate. Institutions can use the data to monitor liquidity, generate signals and adjust exposures as news events alter probabilities in real time.

Firms already subscribed to Edge can add the election and politics categories through the same connection used for other Kalshi markets. The platform is designed for both human traders and AI-driven systems that require consistent, machine-readable data delivered with minimal delay.

Midterm Trading Volume Already Outpaces 2024 Cycle

Activity linked to the 2026 midterms has accelerated well ahead of election day. More than $133 million had been traded on House and Senate races across major platforms by mid-August, exceeding the $92.4 million recorded for the entire 2024 congressional election cycle. One Kalshi contract focused on which party will control the House had already attracted more than $35 million in volume, with Democratic victory odds near 84 percent at the time of the announcement.

The November 3 contests will determine partisan control of Congress for the remainder of the current presidential term. Outcomes could affect the path of legislation, oversight activity and confirmation of nominees, making timely probability data increasingly relevant for risk management across asset classes.

DoubleZero describes its network as a protocol coordinating independent fiber contributors to deliver low-latency connectivity for systems where milliseconds matter. Edge packages complete market data for subscribers, reducing the operational burden of maintaining separate data infrastructure for each venue.

Broader Context for Prediction-Market Infrastructure

Prediction markets gained wider attention during the 2024 presidential cycle and have continued to expand in both volume and institutional participation. Platforms offering regulated event contracts now serve as alternative sources of information that can complement traditional polling and economic indicators. As trading activity grows, demand has risen for professional-grade market-data distribution comparable to that available in equity and futures markets.

The latest expansion places Kalshi’s political contracts on the same technical footing as its sports and crypto offerings within the Edge platform. Subscribers gain a unified feed that supports both discretionary and algorithmic strategies focused on political outcomes. Access is available through DoubleZero Edge subscriptions, with the election and politics categories live as of the Wednesday announcement.