Phantom Starts a Staged US Launch of In-Wallet Prediction Markets

US users of Phantom can now trade prediction markets in the wallet, under a staged launch that began Friday and runs through Kalshi , in what Phantom called its first US integration. Phantom introduced Kalshi-powered prediction markets in December, promoting them as trades that needed no separate account. The US version needs one. General Counsel Kevin Jacobs wrote that Kalshi “approves and holds users’ trading accounts, and executes the trades they submit using Phantom.” Before a first trade in Phantom’s mobile app, users pass Kalshi’s identity checks, which can ask for a Social Security number and a US government ID…