Polymarket’s U.S. Comeback: Shayne Coplan, UFC Deal and the New Arms Race in Blockchain Prediction Markets
From Bedroom Experiment to Global Prediction Platform When Shayne Coplan started Polymarket in 2020, he didn’t have a team, a war chest of venture capital, or a Wall Street pedigree. What he did have was a laptop, conviction in blockchain technology, and an idea: let markets, not pundits, price the future. CoinDesk+1 Speaking this week at Cantor Fitzgerald’s crypto, AI and blockchain conference in Miami, Coplan described how open blockchain rails meant a solo founder could spin up a venue where anyone in the world could trade on real‑world events — elections, central‑bank moves, even celebrity gossip — using stablecoins.