Company file
Polymarket
CFTC-supervised venue (US product, post-2025 restructuring) +1
New York, United States · 1.69M visits / day
Legal Polymarket Inc. · Polymarket Inc.
CEO Shayne Coplan
Founders Shayne Coplan
Founded 2020
Parent Polymarket Inc.
Privately held prediction-market company. Not a traditional bookmaker: users trade event contracts with each other rather than betting against a house book.
Founded in 2020 by Shayne Coplan as a crypto-settled prediction market. The CFTC charged Polymarket in 2022 for offering off-exchange event contracts; the company paid a $1.4m penalty and shut US-person access. In 2025–26 it moved toward a federally supervised US product after acquiring a CFTC-regulated venue, while the international site remains a separate product.
Licences CFTC-supervised venue (US product, post-2025 restructuring) · International product historically operated outside US registration
Register US CFTC path / Polymarket Inc. corporate filings (evolving 2025–26)
Payments Crypto, on-ramp partners
Currencies USDC
Languages English
Products Prediction market
Odds formats Fractional · Decimal · US / American · Hong Kong · Indonesian · Malay · Implied probability
Related companies Polymarket Inc. (Parent)
Public officers / staff
- Shayne Coplan · Founder / CEO
Company communication
Trust matrix — categories, not the published weight
- MetVerified owners — Named private owners on the public record.
- PartialNamed officers / staff — Shayne Coplan (Founder / CEO)
- MetAddress on a register — US CFTC path / Polymarket Inc. corporate filings (evolving 2025–26)
- MissingPhone number on file — No published corporate or support telephone.
- MetEmail address on file — Published support on polymarket.com
- PartialLongevity — Operating since 2020 (6 years).
- PartialRelated businesses — Polymarket Inc. (Parent)
- MetLicence stringency — 2 jurisdictions. Strongest on file: CFTC-supervised venue (US product, post-2025 restructuring). Extra countries add weight; they do not wash out a weak home licence.
- Not a bookmaker — peer-to-peer event contracts, not fixed-odds sports betting
- Trust score reflects a different product and regulatory stack
Official website polymarket.com