Imagine my surprise.
Whitney Webb Says her investigation has found that 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.
Webb reports Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Webb says Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story.
“In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.”
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/06/investigative-series/the-secret-history-of-polymarket-part-1/
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