Kalshi — Politics vs Polymarket — Crypto

Name: Kalshi — Politics vs Polymarket — Crypto OpenChainBench measurements
Creator: OpenChainBench
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi — Politics vs Polymarket — Crypto on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmark, awaiting live measurements.

Read methodology Last measured Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:39:33 UTCWindow: rolling 24h1 shared benchmark

Kalshi — Politics

Polymarket — Crypto

Side by side measurements

Resolution delay, Polymarket vs Kalshi

Trading

Kalshi — Politics

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Polymarket — Crypto

Trails

10.4 min

p99: 132.8 min
rank: #2
samples: 41,863

Polymarket delay is measured from the first onchain outcome proposal to resolution (UMA challenge window, minimum 2h by protocol). Kalshi delay is settlement_ts - close_time (exact from API), where close_time is the scheduled market close, not the real-world event end. Kalshi auto-generated parlay markets (Exotics) are excluded. Both anchors are lower bounds on total user wait from the real-world event ending.

Frequently asked questions

Kalshi — Politics vs Polymarket — Crypto: which one is better?

Kalshi — Politics and Polymarket — Crypto are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. See the live table on this page for every metric.

How is the Kalshi — Politics vs Polymarket — Crypto comparison measured?

Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.

How this pair was selected

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing — panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.