Kalshi sign up is free. The screen still wants a real address.

Kalshi sign up lives on kalshi.com, not on this site. The doors are email and a password, Google, or Apple. All three land on the same identity check. Creating the account does not cost a fee. A debit-card deposit does; ACH does not.

The form wants a legal name, a date of birth, a residential address, and a phone that can take an SMS. US applicants also get asked for the last four of an SSN. A photo of a passport or national ID shows up when the data does not match. That is the CFTC designated-contract-market rule, not a growth experiment.

The address is the part people try to negotiate. Morocco, Nigeria, and Israel can apply on the list this site tracks. Poland cannot trade event contracts. Cuba is a sanctions stop. A mainland Chinese address does not complete registration — the search is often “Kalshi 中国注册”, and the answer on that page is no. Nicaragua is not on our table; a Mexican yes does not cover Managua. Do not paste a relative’s address in an open country.

After the check, the deposit screen is the next document. ACH, PayPal, and Venmo are US rails. Everyone else is looking at a card, a USD wire, or ZeroHash if that row is actually listed. The English Member Agreement is the contract you clicked. StartKalshi does not open the account.