From dropout at 21 to $10B empire, Shayne Coplan, now 25, built crypto's biggest prediction platform.
Shayne Coplan grew up in New York, restless but ambitious; always dreaming of wealth beyond his classmates' reach.
He was brilliant yet distracted, bored in school, and constantly searching for something greater than ordinary success.
At just 16, he forced into Genius offices, writing hundreds of annotations about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
By 21 in 2017, he dropped out of NYU, mined Litecoin, traded Dogecoin, and made money fast.
In 2019, his startup Union Market โนcollapsed. Broke and selling belongings, Shayne searched for a bigger vision.
During 2020 lockdown, Robin Hanson's paper revealed to him that prediction markets could reshape information.
From his bathroom, he built Polymarket at 21 - a crypto-powered prediction site unlike anything before.
Through 2021-2023, Polymarket grew rapidly, gaining users, funding, attention as bets spanned politics to pop culture.
By the 2024 election, Polymarket stunned forecasters, correctly predicting Biden's dropout, Trump's win, and swing states.
In January 2024, FBI agents raided his apartment, investigating if Americans used VPNs to access Polymarket.
For months after the raid, Shayne lived under investigation, uncertain if Polymarket's U.S. future would survive.
By July 2025, investigations ended. Both DOJ and CFTC cleared Shayne and Polymarket of any wrongdoing.
Late 2025, Polymarket reportedly reached a $10 billion valuation, with Wall Street and billionaires showing interest.
From dropout at 21 to a $10 billion empire, Shayne Coplan, now just 25, transformed how the world bets.
๐ก Investors reportedly value Polymarket at $10B, driven by speculation it could soon launch its own cryptocurrency token.
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