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Nevada's deadline for Kalshi to fully geofence its sports, election and entertainment contracts arrives Wednesday, and missing it starts a $120,000-a-day fine clock immediately. Michigan's parallel cutoff lands the same day, with a steeper $500,000-a-day penalty kicking in from Thursday if the prediction market platform has not blocked the state by then.
Both deadlines trace back to courts finding that Kalshi kept operating in states after being told to stop. In Nevada, the Gaming Control Board caught its own investigators buying prohibited contracts from inside the state eight times across four days in late May and early June, despite a May 18 court order requiring geofencing. That led to a contempt filing, then a July 24 agreement: implement third-party, multi-source geofencing through GeoComply by August 12, or pay $120,000 a day.
Michigan runs on a separate track. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina of the state's 30th Circuit Court ruled June 29 that Kalshi's sports event contracts amount to illegal sports betting and gave the company 30 days to geofence, warning: "If you sit on it for 29 days, there will be sanctions." Miss the deadline and the fine jumps from $120,000 a day to $500,000 a day starting August 13.
Kalshi has not backed down from the legal position underneath both cases. "Nevada is trying to block its own residents from accessing a federally regulated market," a company spokesperson said. "Kalshi is subject to exclusive federal jurisdiction, not state law, and we'll continue defending that position in court." Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman Mike Dreitzer was equally direct: "The Court required Kalshi to stop offering covered event contracts in Nevada, and Kalshi violated that order. This agreement will ensure that Kalshi fully complies with Nevada law moving forward, or it will face stiff penalties."
The dollar figures are the story, but the real question is bigger than Kalshi's compliance costs. Every state forcing a geofencing deadline on a CFTC-regulated platform is testing whether federal designation actually preempts state gaming law, the same fight playing out in Illinois's Kalshi lawsuit and the wider dispute over geolocation as US betting's enforcement layer. The CFTC has already told prediction markets to stop pricing contracts like sportsbook odds; states are now trying the blunter lever of making the platform unreachable within their borders. Suppliers like Sportradar are meanwhile signing neutral deals with both Kalshi and its sportsbook rivals, a bet that this fight outlasts any single state's fine schedule.
Two states, one clock, no grace period
Nevada set a fixed date and a number. Michigan set a longer runway and a bigger one. Wednesday tests whether either matters to a company that does not concede either court had jurisdiction to begin with.