Kalshi is reportedly seeking a $40 billion valuation and Blockchain.com is targeting an IPO, even as listed crypto treasury companies struggle to hold the premium valuations they once enjoyed.
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Kalshi, a US prediction-market operator that lists event contracts under Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight, is seeking a valuation of roughly $40 billion, according to the report. That figure would place the company among the largest privately held businesses in the crypto and event-contract space, well above the levels attached to it in earlier funding rounds. A sought valuation is not a completed transaction, however: it reflects what a company and its advisers are testing with potential investors, not a settled price. Even so, the ambition matters for the sector because it shows private capital is again willing to underwrite crypto-adjacent businesses at very large scale. It also sets up the split the report describes, in which headline numbers grow larger while the multiples attached to some publicly traded vehicles shrink.
Blockchain.com, one of the industry's longest-running wallet, custody and exchange services, is targeting an initial public offering, according to the same report. Listing on a public exchange is a different test from a private funding round: it generally requires audited financial statements, disclosure of revenue and customer metrics, and compliance with listing and governance standards. A listing would also give early backers and employees a route to liquidity that private rounds do not provide, and it would create a public reference point that could be used to value comparable crypto firms. The plan fits a broader pattern in which crypto companies have turned to public markets to raise capital and widen their shareholder base.
A set of listed companies built around holding crypto on their balance sheets once traded at substantial premiums to the market value of the assets they hold, and those premiums have proven difficult to maintain, per the report. The premium mechanism is straightforward: investors were paying more for indirect exposure than the underlying assets themselves cost. When regulated spot vehicles, direct custody and other routes to the same exposure are widely available, the case for paying that extra weakens. Financing structure adds pressure as well, because many treasury companies fund purchases by issuing shares or convertible debt, which can dilute existing holders and makes the model dependent on continued access to capital markets. The net effect is a widening gap between the volume of capital entering the sector and the valuations some vehicles can still command.
Kalshi is a US-based prediction market that lists event contracts on outcomes such as economic data and elections, and it operates under regulation as a designated contract market. According to the report, it is seeking a valuation of about $40 billion, which would place it among the largest private companies in the crypto and event-contract space. The number matters as a signal of how much private investors are currently willing to commit to crypto-adjacent businesses, even though a sought valuation is not the same as a completed deal.
An initial public offering means the company would sell shares to public investors and list them on an exchange, rather than raising money only from private backers. That process typically brings requirements such as audited financial statements, detailed disclosure of revenue and customer metrics, and adherence to listing and governance rules. For Blockchain.com, one of the industry's oldest wallet and custody providers, a listing would also create a public valuation benchmark that other crypto firms could be compared against.
These are listed companies whose main assets are crypto holdings, and they once traded above the market value of those holdings. Investors were effectively paying extra for indirect exposure, sometimes because direct custody or regulated spot vehicles were less accessible. As more routes to exposure became available, the reason to pay that premium weakened, and many of these companies now find it difficult to sustain the valuations they previously commanded.
Kalshi's Reported $40 Billion Valuation Target
Blockchain.com and the IPO Route
Why the Treasury-Company Premium Is Hard to Hold
Capital Inflow Versus Valuation Premium
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The report's central observation is a divergence: billions of dollars are again moving toward crypto businesses, while the premium multiples that once defined parts of the market are not returning at the same pace. Kalshi's reported $40 billion target and Blockchain.com's IPO ambitions sit on the capital-inflow side of that line, while the compressed valuations of treasury companies sit on the other. The distinction matters because premiums shape behaviour: they determine how cheaply a company can raise money, how acquirers price deals, and how employees and early investors are ultimately compensated. For readers, the useful separation is between the size of a headline number and the price actually being paid for a given set of cash flows or assets. Both are reported here as facts; neither points to a direction for prices. Based on public news sources.
The two measures capture different things: capital inflow counts how much money is being invested in crypto businesses, while a premium measures the price paid relative to the value of an underlying asset or cash flow. It is possible for large sums to enter the sector, as with Kalshi's reported valuation target and Blockchain.com's IPO plan, while specific listed vehicles trade closer to the value of what they hold. That divergence is the pattern the report highlights.
