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Prediction Markets — 2026-06-08

Frozen at 00:00 UTC · recorded 2026-06-08T00:05:02.419454+00:00

State of the System

On June 8, 2026, VolRoc recorded 84,904 active prediction markets across Kalshi and Polymarket, holding $1.52B in combined open interest. Day over day, active markets fell 36.8% and open interest fell 4.9% (vs June 6, 2026). Sports was the largest domain by open interest (44%), ahead of Politics & Elections (29%); together they accounted for 73% of all open interest. Kalshi carried 90% of active markets and Polymarket 10%.
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As of 2026-06-08 · 00:00 UTC

Active Markets
84,904
00:00 UTC freeze
Open Interest
$1.52B
Kalshi OI + Polymarket liquidity
Markets Traded · 24h
13,110
with trading activity
Kalshi / Polymarket
90% / 10%
by active-market count

Domain Composition — 12 domains

Sports
51,400
Other
12,239
Mixed / Multi-category
9,998
Politics & Elections
5,724
Entertainment & Culture
2,275
Crypto & Digital Assets
1,060
Economics & Inflation
734
Companies & Business
491
Monetary Policy
377
Technology & AI
289
World & Geopolitics
152
Science & Health
88
Climate & Weather
77

Venue-agnostic subject taxonomy from Kalshi series prefixes and Polymarket title keywords. A residual Other bucket is reported honestly.

Venue Split

Kalshi 90%
Polymarket 10%
Kalshi 76,498 markets · $866.7M OI  ·  Polymarket 8,406 markets · $655.3M liquidity

Probability Distribution

0102030405060708090
Yes-price across both venues, 10 buckets from 0 to 100. n = 84,904.

Largest Kalshi Series

Sports — multi-game parlays
42,116
Cross-category multi-markets
9,998
Music — artist streams
858
Midterm control
732
U.S. House races
596
California primaries
306
NFL — next team moves
231
Primary vote shares
229
World Cup — games
208
Wcstageofelim
201
Nextteamnba
200
Nbadraftteam
188

Kalshi market families (Polymarket is not series-structured).

About & Citation

This is the fixed-hour (00:00 UTC) state of every active market on Kalshi and Polymarket for June 8, 2026. The live Observatory shows the current diurnal value; this record is immutable. Open interest combines Kalshi open interest with Polymarket USD liquidity as comparable USD magnitudes. Sources: Kalshi, Polymarket.

How to cite

“VolRoc Prediction Market Archive — June 8, 2026.” https://volroc.ai/prediction-markets/2026-06-08/

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