# Kalshi Order Book Hits DoubleZero Edge; Fee Waiver Reveals the Real Bet

By Marcus Ledger · 2026-08-13 · Data Markets · https://datacommenter.com/kalshi-order-book-hits-doublezero-edge-fee-waiver-reveals-the-real-bet/
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> Kalshi's live order book launched on DoubleZero Edge's low-latency fiber network on August 12, 2026, with Kalshi waiving its usual revenue share for the first year — a sign the…

Original reporting: [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/low-latency-kalshi-market-data-feed-launches-on-doublezero-edge-302849868.html)
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Is this a data-licensing deal or an infrastructure land grab? The terms say infrastructure. Per PR Newswire’s August 12, 2026 announcement, Kalshi is waiving its normal cut of DoubleZero Edge’s post-burn subscription fees for the first year, which means the feed is being priced on network delivery, not on the value of Kalshi’s book itself. That is a telling choice for the world’s largest prediction market to make just as institutional interest in its data is becoming a distinct business line from trading volume.

The evidence supports the read. DoubleZero is pitching itself as the NYSE/NASDAQ/CME multicast model transplanted onto venues, crypto, perps, prediction markets, that never built dedicated pipes, and Kalshi’s own volume mix makes the timing obvious: sports contracts account for 37.8% of Kalshi’s weekly notional volume and crypto perpetuals another 20.3%, according to Dune data cited by Cointelegraph via TradingView, meaning the categories launching on Edge already cover the bulk of what trades. Rolling out a Level 1/Level 2 feed with no revenue share removes the one friction, price, that would slow adoption by market makers and prop desks who’d otherwise have to keep scraping Kalshi’s API themselves.

> The waived revenue share is the tell: DoubleZero is buying pipe volume now and will try to charge rent on the data later.

The wider context matters more than this single feed. Finance Magnates reports that Intercontinental Exchange has committed up to $2 billion to Polymarket at an $8 billion valuation and is already packaging its output into ICE Consolidated Feed, while Tradeweb took a minority stake in Kalshi alongside a February 2026 integration deal, extended to trading workflows in June. Neither ICE nor Tradeweb discloses what their data arrangements actually generate, and DoubleZero’s fee waiver means Kalshi isn’t collecting from this channel either, at least for now. Watch whether that changes in year two, and whether Kalshi routes its next big feed, historical data, promised for a future release, through the same free-distribution playbook or starts charging once institutional desks are dependent on the pipe.

> "Traditional finance got this concept exactly right: data access is a critical part of market structure. The world's largest trading firms built dedicated networks to move data that are fast and reliable, but only for themselves," said Austin Federa, co-founder of DoubleZero. "New Finance, like crypto, perps, and prediction markets, has been built without this infrastructure. DoubleZero Edge brings institutional-grade infrastructure into the hands of prediction-market traders with software-defined access. Kalshi coming online shows that Edge optimizes market data for any venue, onchain or off."
> — [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/low-latency-kalshi-market-data-feed-launches-on-doublezero-edge-302849868.html)

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