Today he is the founder of PolyMarket.

It's a platform that even Elon Musk follows.

Here's how Shane Coplan made it.

We learn about his plan to bring mass adoption of currencies.

● Coplan was born and raised in New York City.

● He lives with his mother as an only child.

● His passion for technology started early.

■ He started learning programming at the age of fourteen.

● Shane entered#cryptocurrenciesin 2013.

● Mining Litecoin with a homemade rig.

● At the age of 15, he discovered Ethereum and participated in the presale.

● Then he started studying computer science at New York University.

○ But he dropped out in his second semester.

● Coplan interned at Genius, helping build their singing app for Spotify.

● Later, he interned at Chronicled, an Ethereum startup.

● When ETH soared in 2017, TokenUnion was founded.

● A platform to reward users for holding cryptocurrencies.

○ During the 2020 closure

● Coplan explored prediction platforms like Augur.

● Ethereum-based marketplace launched in 2015

● Inspired, he began developing his own forecasting platform.

Polymarket.

○ The platform was launched in the same year on #Ethereum's

● Shortly after, Polymarket secured $4 million in seed funding.

Later moved to Polygon for better scalability.

○ Since then, the platform has grown.

●But not without challenges.

● In January 2022, the CFTC fined Polymarket $1.4 million for operating without proper registration.

● Although they agreed to stop US services

● 25% of users are still there.

● In 2024, Polymarket broke records.

● The US election, with a large cryptocurrency

● The platform is now mainstream, especially on Twitter.

● Even Elon Musk posted about it.

○ Question?

● How will Polymarket maintain its trading volume after November 2024?

● Koplan and his team remain confident.

● Polymarket's latest $70 million raise

◇With investors like Vitalik Buterin