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Polymarket is an American cryptocurrency-based prediction market, headquartered in Manhattan, New York City. Launched in 2020, it offers a platform where investors can place bets on various future events, including economic indicators , weather patterns, awards, as well as political and legislative outcomes.
In 2014, Coplan participated in the initial coin offering of Ethereum and acquired the cryptocurrency when it was priced significantly lower than its later value. [1] [3] Inspired by economist Friedrich Hayek’s theories on decentralized information systems and George Mason University professor Robin Hanson’s work on Futarchy, Coplan founded Polymarket in 2020, which operates as a ...
Polymarket agreed to block access in the US after reaching a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and paying a $1.4 million penalty in early 2022.
To briefly recap, Polymarket was kicked out of the U.S. in 2022 for letting U.S. users bet on political prediction markets, which, at the time, was against the law.
The FBI has raided the home of Polymarket chief executive Shayne Coplan as part of an investigation into the crypto betting platform.. Federal law enforcement agents seized the 26-year-old CEO’s ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal law enforcement agents raided the downtown New York home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan on Wednesday, seizing his phone and electronics, the company confirmed. The ...
Polymarket burst on the scene this year, but the idea behind it is centuries old and reflects a notion, popularized in the book The Wisdom of Crowds, that crowd-sourcing a question can produce ...
Polymarket, by contrast, has become a fixture of political Twitter and, according to Nick Tomaino—whose venture fund 1confirmation has invested in all of these projects—is the go-to site for ...