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As of October 30, 2026, Kalshi runs 15-minute up-or-down markets on nine coins: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, Dogecoin, BNB, Zcash, Hyperliquid and NEAR.

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Which coins have a 15-minute market

We asked Kalshi's public API for every candidate ticker one at a time, because the category listing returned a different subset on each call and cannot be trusted as a census. Three answers came back: a live series with an open event, a registered series that has never listed a market, or a 404.

Checked against Kalshi's public API on 2026-09-20. We re-check this table and change the date when we do. If a row here disagrees with what you see on Kalshi, Kalshi is right and we are late. Since that check, NEAR (KXNEAR15M) has listed 15-minute windows; our NEAR agent has called them since October 25, 2026.

Kalshi 15-minute crypto series by coin, checked 2026-09-20
Coin Series ticker 15-minute market Settles on Notes
Bitcoin (BTC)KXBTC15MLiveCF Benchmarks BRTIThe deepest of the eight by a wide margin. Targets carry 2 decimals.
Ethereum (ETH)KXETH15MLiveCF Benchmarks RTIFresh event confirmed on 2026-09-20, in the same quarter-hour slot as the others.
Solana (SOL)KXSOL15MLiveCF Benchmarks RTIOpen event confirmed on 2026-09-20.
XRPKXXRP15MLiveCF Benchmarks XRPUSDRTITargets carry 4 decimals, so the target is finer than a Coinbase quote.
Dogecoin (DOGE)KXDOGE15MLiveCF Benchmarks RTIOpen event confirmed on 2026-09-20. We have not read its decimal count off a market object.
BNBKXBNB15MLiveCF Benchmarks RTINew to this site. Open event confirmed on 2026-09-20.
Zcash (ZEC)KXZEC15MLiveCF Benchmarks ZECUSDRTINew to this site. Volume over the 24 hours to 2026-09-20 was 1,818.19 contracts. Kalshi is pre-creating ZEC windows about a day ahead.
Hyperliquid (HYPE)KXHYPE15MLive (thin)CF Benchmarks HYPEUSDRTIThin. Volume over the 24 hours to 2026-09-20 was 288.73 contracts, with 12 and 36 contracts resting at the top of book. Worth watching, not worth sizing into.
Cardano (ADA)KXADA15MNo markets yetNot verifiedThe series is registered with a settlement source and a product certification. Open, unopened and closed all returned nothing.
Toncoin (TON)KXTON15MNo markets yetNot verifiedRegistered, zero markets ever. We cannot read its decimal count or its index name until Kalshi lists one.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)KXBCH15MNo markets yetNot verifiedRegistered, zero markets ever. We cannot tell from the public API whether this is paused or retired.
Litecoin (LTC)KXLTC15MNo seriesNoneThe ticker returns 404. No 15-minute product exists.
Chainlink (LINK)KXLINK15MNo seriesNone404. LINK appears on Kalshi only at longer windows.
Shiba Inu (SHIB)KXSHIB15MNo seriesNone404. SHIB appears on Kalshi only at longer windows.
Avalanche (AVAX)KXAVAX15MNo seriesNone404.
Stellar (XLM)KXXLM15MNo seriesNone404. XLM appears on Kalshi only at longer windows.
Monero (XMR)KXXMR15MNo seriesNone404.
Sui (SUI)KXSUI15MNo seriesNone404.
Tron (TRX)KXTRX15MNo seriesNone404.
Bittensor (TAO)KXTAO15MNo seriesNone404.
Pepe (PEPE)KXPEPE15MNo seriesNone404.

A 404 and an empty series are different facts and we keep them apart. A 404 means Kalshi has no such product. An empty series means the product is registered, with a settlement source and a signed product certification behind it, and Kalshi has simply not listed a window for it. ADA, TON and BCH sit in that second group. Treat them as paused rather than dead.

What actually settles these contracts

Not Coinbase, and not whatever number your phone shows. Every one of these markets settles on a CF Benchmarks Real Time Index for that coin, and Kalshi writes the exact mechanism into the contract rules.

In the last minute before expiry, sixty one-second index prices are collected and averaged. The same thing happened sixty seconds before the window opened. If the closing average is at least the opening average, the contract resolves yes. Kalshi types this as greater_or_equal, which is why a dead-flat window resolves yes rather than no. The opening average is the number shown as the target, and it is rounded to the coin's own decimal count: 2 for BTC, 4 for XRP and ZEC.

Two practical consequences. First, the target can sit at a decimal your chart cannot draw. ZEC strikes carry 4 decimals while Coinbase quotes ZEC to 2, so read the target from Kalshi, not the chart. Second, an index average is not a last trade. A one-second spike on a single exchange in the final minute moves the average very little, so a chart that looks decisive can still settle the other way.

One caveat we would rather flag than hide. The ZEC, ADA, TON and BCH series all point at Kalshi's CRYPTO15M product certification. HYPE points at a different one, CRYPTO. Nothing we observed behaved differently because of it, and we have no explanation for the difference, but it is there and you should know before you read HYPE's rules as identical to the rest.

Every coin runs on the same clock

The windows are not staggered. Every event we fetched closed on a quarter hour: :00, :15, :30 or :45. Coins queried at 15:29Z all showed a 15:30 close. Coins queried two minutes later all showed 15:45. That is one clock shared across the whole crypto board, not eight separate clocks.

If you watch more than one coin, this matters more than it sounds. There is no rolling stream of expiries to pick from, so you cannot close one position calmly while another is mid-window. Everything you hold settles in the same instant, and the next set of targets is set in that same instant too. A plan built on eight coins is really a plan for one deadline with eight lines on it.

It also means the countdown belongs to the board rather than to any single market, which is how our desks display it.

What we do not have yet

There is no 5-minute crypto market on Kalshi. We asked for KXBTC5M directly and got a 404, and a scan of the crypto series for any frequency shorter than fifteen minutes returned nothing at all. Fifteen minutes is the shortest contract Kalshi lists.

So when our desks offer a 1-minute or 5-minute chart, that is a chart view of the same 15-minute contract. It is a zoom level, not a separate market you can trade. If another site tells you it has 5-minute crypto contracts on Kalshi, ask it for the ticker.

One more honest limit: this coin list is a floor, not a ceiling. The category listing demonstrably omitted three series that provably exist, so we probe tickers one by one. If you find a 15-minute series we missed, tell us and we will add it with the date we confirmed it.

Quick answers

Six questions about Kalshi crypto markets

Short answers with the date we checked. The coverage table further down is the evidence behind them.

Which coins have a 15-minute market on Kalshi?
Eight, as of September 20, 2026: Bitcoin (KXBTC15M), Ethereum (KXETH15M), Solana (KXSOL15M), XRP (KXXRP15M), Dogecoin (KXDOGE15M), BNB (KXBNB15M), Zcash (KXZEC15M) and Hyperliquid (KXHYPE15M). Each one had an open event when we asked Kalshi's public API for the ticker directly. Since then NEAR (KXNEAR15M) has listed 15-minute windows too; our NEAR agent has called them since October 25, 2026.
Which series are registered but have never listed a market?
Three: Cardano (KXADA15M), Toncoin (KXTON15M) and Bitcoin Cash (KXBCH15M). Each has a settlement source and a product certification on file, and open, unopened and closed markets all came back empty on 2026-09-20. We treat them as paused, not dead.
When do the 15-minute windows open and close?
On the quarter hour, around the clock. A window opens at :00, :15, :30 or :45 and closes fifteen minutes later. Every coin shares the same clock, so every open window on the board settles in the same instant. Every event we fetched on 2026-09-20 closed on a quarter hour.
What settles a 15-minute crypto contract?
A CF Benchmarks real-time index for that coin, never a single exchange. In every contract rule we have read, Kalshi averages sixty one-second index prices in the final minute before the close and compares that with the same average taken when the window opened. If the closing average is at least the opening average, the contract resolves yes and pays $1. Every Bitcoin window we have recorded is listed with its target, its settled value and its Kalshi ticker in the daily results archive.
Is there a 5-minute crypto market on Kalshi?
No. As of September 20, 2026, KXBTC5M returns a 404 and no crypto series carries a frequency shorter than fifteen minutes. The 1-minute and 5-minute tabs on our desks are chart zoom levels on the 15-minute contract, not separate markets.
Does Kalshi run hourly markets on coins other than Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the one hourly series we have watched trade: KXBTCD, a strike ladder that opens one hour before each close. Kalshi's series listing also names hourly series for ether (KXETHD), XRP, Solana and Zcash, but we have not confirmed a live hourly event on any of them, so we run no hourly desk for them.

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