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The DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly allowing U.S.-based users to bet on the site, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday evening. Polymarket declined to comment on those allegations but a ...
The FBI searched the New York City home of Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan as part of a criminal investigation into the election betting platform, law enforcement sources told ABC News. The ...
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 ...
Founded in 2020 by Shayne Coplan, [3] Polymarket is a prediction market that allows users to gain/lose on the outcome of world events. [4] In January 2022, Polymarket was fined US$1.4 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and received a cease and desist order for regulatory violations, including failure to register as a Swap Execution Facility.
The FBI seized a cellphone and other electronic devices of betting site Polymarket’s CEO Shayne Coplan in a raid on his New York City apartment early Wednesday.
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 raided Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan's Manhattan home on Wednesday. A company spokesperson called it an act of "political retribution."
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 ...