TREE NEWS update: Prediction market platform Kalshi terminated its advisory contract with Donald Trump Jr. after his venture firm 1789 Capital increased its investment in rival Polymarket. A Kalshi spokesperson said the two sides began discussing the termination in August following 1789 Capital’s lead of Polymarket’s latest funding round, calling it a mutual decision with no political considerations. Trump Jr. became a Kalshi strategic adviser in January 2025 and received company shares.
Kalshi Ends Donald Trump Jr. Advisory Deal After 1789 Capital Backs Polymarket
AI take
The advisory tie was always a strategic signal as much as a governance one, and Kalshi is treating a capital commitment to a direct competitor as the point where that signal stops working. The mutual-decision framing keeps the split clean, but the timing — talks beginning in August, right after 1789 led Polymarket's round — suggests prediction-market affiliation is becoming a zero-sum loyalty question for backers and public figures alike. Whether other figures with cross-platform financial interests face similar unwinding is the open question.
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