Taker-Side Volume
The closest thing Kalshi has to sportsbook handle — the dollars staked by the bettor who takes the price on each trade rather than waiting for it.
Daily taker-side volume
Dollars staked by the aggressor on each trade — the handle equivalent. Because it weighs each bet by what it cost, a 99¢ contract counts for far more than a 1¢ one.
Yes vs No takers
Which way the aggressive money is leaning. A steady yes-side majority means buyers are pushing harder than sellers across the board.
Taker volume by category
Which categories the aggressive (taker) money is actually flowing into, in the same taker-side volume dollars as the chart above — just broken out by category. Sports are broken out sport-by-sport rather than lumped into Kalshi's single "Sports" bucket — switch to Detailed for the sport-by-sport split.
Before
Top categories in the brushed window:
Yes/No skew by category
Which categories takers only want to bet one way on. A category near 50/50 means the aggressive money is split; a category leaning hard to one side means takers overwhelmingly buy Yes (or fade to No) there. Same brushed window and General/Detailed toggle as the chart above.
Most yes-skewed in the brushed window:
How taker-side volume is calculated
Every matched trade has an aggressor (taker) who crosses the spread and a liquidity provider (maker) who rests. The taker's cost depends on which side they take: a yes-side taker pays the yes price per contract; a no-side taker pays 1 − yes price per contract. Summing those dollar amounts across all takers gives total taker-side volume — the prediction-market equivalent of handle in sports betting. Unlike raw contract count, taker-side volume is unaffected by artificial inflation from high-frequency trading in near-certain contracts.
Largest individual trades
The single biggest prints Kalshi has published — raw contracts, the larger side's dollar stake and what the taker specifically put up don't always pick the same winners.
Block trade is Kalshi's own flag for privately negotiated size printed to the tape; an em dash means we cannot tell, not that it was ordinary, because the flag is only recoverable for trades from mid-2026 onward.
Largest trades in small markets
The same rankings restricted to trades that were unusually large for the market they happened in — a print that ate a big share of everything that market ever traded, not just a big number in isolation.
Every row here already clears Kalshi's 25,000-contract block minimum, so each one could have been a block — which makes an em dash in that column a gap in coverage rather than evidence either way.
How this is calculated
A trade qualifies here when it was at least 100,000 contracts and at least 20% of that market's entire lifetime volume in that one print, excluding parlays. Parlays are left out because a parlay combo is by construction its own tiny market, so almost any parlay trade looks like a huge share of a thin one — and the per-combo volume totals behind that ratio aren't reliable at that granularity. Parlays still appear in the table above, which has no market-share requirement.
Because the denominator — the market's lifetime volume — keeps growing while a market is still active, a trade can drop out of this list over time even though the trade itself never changes.