Lifecycle

Each row is a message from the Kalshi market_lifecycle_v2 channel. One file per UTC day holds every market and event.

Data type: lifecycle · Download sample ↗

Schema

Field	Type	Description
`market_ticker`	`string \| null`	Kalshi market ticker. Null for event-level messages.
`event_ticker`	`string \| null`	The event the message belongs to: set on event-level messages and on `created` market messages.
`timestamp`	`timestamp[us] \| null`	Source time: `determination_ts` for `determined`, `settled_ts` for `settled`. Null for other messages.
`local_timestamp`	`timestamp[us]`	KacData receive timestamp.
`event_type`	`string`	Message type: `market_lifecycle_v2`, `event_lifecycle` or `event_fee_update`.
`market_lifecycle_json`	`string`	The message body as received, unmodified JSON.

market_lifecycle_v2 — market-level messages. The JSON field event_type says what happened: created, activated, deactivated, close_date_updated, determined, settled, price_level_structure_updated, metadata_updated, and others. The result is in result and the settlement value in settlement_value (a dollar string; values other than 0 and 1, such as "0.5000", occur).
event_lifecycle — event-level messages with the event's title, subtitle, series_ticker and collateral_return_type.
event_fee_update — event fee changes, with fee_type_override and fee_multiplier_override.

https://api.kacdata.com/v1/kalshi/lifecycle/{YYYY}/{MM}/{DD}/markets_lifecycle.parquet