MrBeast Employee Fired After Insider Trading on Prediction Markets Tied to YouTube Videos

Beast Industries fires video editor after Kalshi catches insider trading on MrBeast video prediction markets, CFTC Chairman personally flags the case.

MrBeast Employee Fired After Insider Trading on Prediction Markets Tied to YouTube Videos Beast Industries fires video editor after Kalshi catches insider trading on MrBeast video prediction markets, CFTC Chairman personally flags the case. March 13, 2026 Key Takeaways: Great Plains Food Bank reported the highest demand in its 43-year history with 167,000 individuals served, including one in five North Dakotans and one in four children. Food Bank for the Heartland in Omaha is experiencing four times the demand it saw in 2018, expecting to serve 580,000 households this fiscal year. For every one meal a food bank provides, SNAP provides nine, and food banks across the country say they cannot fill the gap created by $187 billion in federal cuts. Beast Industries, the company behind YouTube's most-subscribed creator MrBeast, fired a video editor in early March after prediction market platform Kalshi caught him placing wagers on YouTube streaming markets with what Kalshi described as "near-perfect" success. The editor, Artem Kaptur, had traded approximately $4,000 on streaming outcomes tied to MrBeast's upcoming videos using what Kalshi determined was material non-public information. Kalshi suspended Kaptur from its platform for two years, fined him $20,000 (five times the initial trade size), and reported the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig personally addressed the case, explaining how red flags on the platform pointed to the employee. The Pattern Scales With the Industry Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold told CNBC that he had already banned trading by MrBeast employees and Beast Games contestants months prior to the incident. Housenbold called prediction markets "ripe for abuse," noting that "there's so much info