Kalshi fines and suspends MrBeast employee for insider trading

February 26, 2026

TL;DR

Kalshi, a prediction market, has fined and suspended an employee of YouTuber MrBeast for insider trading.
The employee, Artem Kaptur, allegedly used non-public information from his job as an editor for MrBeast to trade on Kalshi.
Kalshi's surveillance system flagged Kaptur's trades for "near-perfect trading success on markets with low odds."
Kaptur was fined $15,000, ordered to return $5,397.58 in profits, and suspended for two years.
In a separate case, Kalshi banned Kyle Langford for five years and fined him for trading on his candidacy for governor of California.
Both cases were reported to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Beast Industries, MrBeast's media company, stated it has "no tolerance for this behavior" and is conducting an independent investigation.

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