Stand, a professional trading terminal for prediction markets, is nearing $200 million in annualized trading volume after expanding its platform to include liquidity from Kalshi alongside Polymarket.
The integration reflects the growing use of prediction markets beyond political races and sports betting, into areas such as macroeconomic developments, geopolitics, commodities-linked events, and cryptocurrency price movements. For many active participants, contract prices increasingly function as real-time probability signals, offering a way to monitor shifting narratives and, in some cases, to hedge or complement positions held in traditional financial markets.
In trading rooms and investment desks, these markets are beginning to resemble conventional data feeds. Russia–Ukraine-related contracts are tracked alongside energy prices, while markets tied to trade policy, tariffs, and central-bank decisions are monitored to gauge event risk and positioning. This has turned prediction-market pricing into what some traders describe as “another screen” in daily workflows.
By adding Kalshi, Stand has broadened opportunities for cross-venue strategies. Similar events are often listed simultaneously across multiple platforms, creating temporary divergences in implied probabilities. Traders can exploit those gaps through relative-value trades, although increased transparency and participation tend to narrow such differences over time.
As more market participants gain access to side-by-side pricing, these inefficiencies are tightening, reinforcing a broader shift toward professionalization. Prediction markets, once dominated by retail participants, are increasingly attracting systematic and data-driven traders who apply tools and strategies similar to those used in equities, derivatives, and foreign exchange.
Stand operates at the infrastructure layer of that transition. Its terminal consolidates venue access and provides features commonly associated with institutional trading platforms, including consolidated order books, multi-market execution tools, and automation functions aimed at frequent traders. The company targets what it describes as “pro-tail” users — individuals and small teams that trade actively and prioritize speed, data, and execution quality over consumer-oriented design.
“Traders are increasingly using prediction markets the way they use other markets — to price uncertainty, express views quickly, and react as information changes. What’s changed is the behavior: you’re seeing more systematic strategies, more cross-venue monitoring, and a growing need for infrastructure that lets people see and execute across markets in one place,” Edward Ridgely, Co-founder of Stand, said in a statement shared with AlexaBlockchain.
The platform’s growth comes as prediction markets draw more sophisticated participants and begin to resemble tradable financial instruments. That evolution has increased demand for tools that can consolidate liquidity, improve execution, and surface probability signals in real time.
Stand was co-founded by Ridgely and Roberto Berwa, an MIT-trained engineer and former startup founder. The company focuses on building software infrastructure for traders who incorporate probability markets into broader macro, financial, and event-driven strategies.
With volumes rising and institutional-style practices spreading, platforms such as Stand are positioning themselves as gateways between fragmented prediction venues and a more integrated, professional trading ecosystem.
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