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The Secret History of Polymarket

Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

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Jun 30, 2026 The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1
The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1

The real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin
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