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Capital is not locked to the pod it landed in. Transferring moves cash between any two of your pods without leaving the venue and without a round trip through an external address. Use it when a strategy needs more capital than its pod holds, or when you are winding a book down.

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What can be transferred today

Kalshi cash, between two pods on the same Kalshi account. Each pod trades its own subaccount, and a transfer moves cash from one subaccount to another inside your account. Nothing leaves Kalshi. On-chain venues (Polymarket, Limitless) are not yet transferable between pods. To move that capital, withdraw from one pod and deposit to the other.

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What does not move

A transfer moves cash, and nothing else.
  • Positions stay put. A pod’s positions belong to that pod. Moving capital out does not move exposure with it.
  • Traders stay put. Access is per pod and is unaffected.
  • Venue credentials stay put. Ties between pods and venue accounts are unchanged.
If you want a strategy’s exposure in a different book, that is a trade, not a transfer.

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Effect on the sending pod

Moving capital out reduces the sending pod’s available balance and therefore its buying power. If the pod holds open positions, check that what remains still supports them before you move a large amount out. The Platform shows each pod’s available balance, and how much of it is reserved by open orders.

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Making a transfer

Choose Transfer on any pod and name both ends: which pod sends, which pod receives, and the amount. The pod you opened starts as the sender, and a control between the two rows swaps them, so funding the pod you are looking at takes the same number of steps as draining it. Before you confirm, the dialog shows what each pod’s available balance becomes. The transfer happens while you wait, and both pods’ balances are updated by the time it reports back. Only available cash moves; cash committed to working orders stays where it is. Two things bound what you can ask for. Kalshi transfers whole cents, so an amount carrying a fraction of a cent is rounded down and the remainder stays in the sending pod. And a pair has to be on one Kalshi account, each pod on a subaccount of its own that it shares with no other pod. Every pod in your organization is listed on both sides. One that cannot take part in the pair you have chosen is shown with the reason rather than left out, so a pod you expected to find is never simply missing. An archived pod can send but cannot receive. Winding a book down and moving its cash out is the reason archiving does not close that door. If a transfer is refused, the reason says what to change. One case is different: if the venue’s answer is never received, the transfer is left unresolved rather than reported either way, both pods are held, and we resolve it with you. Do not retry a transfer that reports this.

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Who can move funds

Transferring is an administrative action in the Platform, not something a trader performs through the API. API keys place, read, and cancel orders, and they do not move capital between books.
Pods are a capital-allocation boundary, not a capital lock. An administrator can move funds between any two pods in the organization. If your operating model needs approvals or limits on internal transfers, tell us. It is the kind of control we would build for a fund that asks.