The Latest Breaking News from Shayne Coplan

A psychology student at the University of Oklahoma says she was discriminated against after receiving a zero on an essay citing the Bible. The university has launched an investigation and placed a graduate instructor on leave.

Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan called his cryptocurrency-based prediction platform “the most accurate thing” in mankind during an interview that aired Sunday.

Coplan said traditional sportsbooks "all rip off the consumer" and "none of them innovate."

Polymarket is a crypto-native company, which could put it in position for a windfall.

Coplan, 27, started Polymarket in the bathroom of his Lower East Side apartment.

Prediction market Polymarket has taken the world by storm and is currently disrupting the sports betting sector. With a new investment from New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE), the company's founder has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.

Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan reflected on the origins and his personal journey in setting up the cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform on Tuesday.

The two startups generated huge buzz by accurately predicting the 2024 election results. Their young founders still face long odds.

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of decentralized prediction platform Polymarket, said Wednesday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved the platform’s operation in the U.S.