The National Basketball Association has chosen Kalshi and Polymarket as its preferred prediction market exchanges. Cointelegraph reported the news on Oct 26, 2026. The report says the league is moving into prediction markets through official data agreements.
The league also signed an agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to share information. The stated goal is to protect the integrity of markets tied to basketball. The report describes the league's plan as including safeguards against insider trading.
The report gives no financial terms for the deals with Kalshi or Polymarket. It does not say what information the NBA and the CFTC will share, how often, or when the arrangement starts. It does not say whether any other prediction market applied or was turned down.
For anyone already holding a perpetual futures position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, this changes nothing directly. The story does not mention perpetual futures, funding rates, trading fees or liquidity on any of those four exchanges. It is about sports prediction markets and the US regulator, not about what it costs to hold a perp.
Source: cointelegraph — NBA names Kalshi, Polymarket preferred exchanges, signs CFTC deal