Azuro vs Kalshi

Azuro3.2/5

VS

Kalshi4.3/5

Feature	AzuroVisit	KalshiVisit
Ratings
Our score	3.2/5	4.3/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Market selection	3.0	4.5
Liquidity	2.0	4.5
Fees	4.0	4.0
Resolution quality	3.5	4.5
Ease of use	3.5	4.0
Specs
Market types	Sports	Politics, Sports, Crypto, Economics, Culture, Weather
Settles in	Not disclosed	USD
Chains	Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Other	Other
Trading fees	Not disclosed	Model fee rounded to $0.000001 precision with balance rounding fees
Resolution source	Supra	Official government and industry statistics, primary source reporting
Available in the US	Not disclosed	Yes
KYC required	Not disclosed	Yes
Regulated venue	No	Yes
Market topics	Sports, Predictions, Gaming	Elections, Macroeconomics, Sports, Cryptocurrency, Weather, Financial Indices
Mobile app	No	Not disclosed
Liquidity rewards	Yes	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2022	2018
Headquarters	—	United States
Investors	Flow Ventures, Gnosis, Polymorphic Capital, Arrington Capital +21	Baillie Gifford, Layer Global, TCV, Coatue +9
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	Shared liquidity eliminates the need for applications to seed individual market books Frontend developers receive a 70% monthly protocol revenue share Deployed across six EVM chains including Arbitrum, Base, and Polygon Audits are published publicly on GitHub	Registered Designated Contract Market status provides federal regulatory oversight for US-based traders Deep liquidity exceeding $2B in weekly volume across major events in May 2026 Transparent dollar-denominated balances eliminate stablecoin depeg risks Subpenny orderbook precision down to $0.0001 allows fine-grained execution
Cons	Contained an infrastructure wallet security attack in October 2026, causing operational pauses Total value locked is thin at under $300,000 in October 2026 Liquidity providers take on counterparty risk against aggregate bettor performance Primary market focus is limited to sports predictions	Requires full identity verification (KYC), preventing anonymous participation Centralized custody of cash balances without on-chain asset withdrawals Subject to regulatory exclusions, including a 2026 trading ban on US Senate staff Unprofitable to profitable user ratio reached 2.9 to 1 in 2026
Best for	Developers launching EVM prediction frontends, LPs seeking yield on sports liquidity pools, Bettors using decentralized sports prediction apps	US residents wanting regulated event contracts, Quantitative traders using FIX and REST APIs, Sports bettors preferring central orderbook pricing

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