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The Story in A Nutshell

This is a very short, cliff notes version to summarize the overall situation, while expanding on the evidence and details in the following sections. No detail should be overlooked in this entire report, as it covers several agendas that are all converging.

Illegal immigrants have been flooding into the U.S. for years, currently costing American taxpayers over $150 billion a year to assist them with housing, food, medical needs, in-state tuition, and more. That translates to every taxpayer contributing nearly $1,000 per year for this invasion. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2024 report suggests that between 2005-2019 the government spent $457.2 billion on refugees and asylees. And people wonder why their property taxes and state taxes are going through the roof. Where are all of these illegal immigrants staying? How many were trained before coming here?

Most people are aware of city buildings, hotels, sports complexes, government compounds, or shelters where migrants have been bussed to, but there has been little talk about where some of them may permanently settle in. Over 65,000 Americans have signed up to sponsor immigrants in their homes, but that doesn’t even put a dent in it. When you have millions of people who need beds, that becomes a bit tricky.

It is estimated that well over 15 million illegal immigrants are now living in the U.S. and over 75,000 Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), who pose a national security risk to the U.S., have been released into the population. However, a Yale study that assessed the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. between 1990 and 2016 estimated over 22 million, so the actual numbers could be well over 30 million at this point. Where are they all housed?

Many of the immigrants are single men between the age of 18-24 – college and military age – traveling alone or in small groups, and many have ditched their IDs at the border before sneaking through. How easy it would be to blend in around college campuses. How many have made it into unchecked off-campus student housing to assist with protests, chaos, or future war tactics?

Colleges and universities decided long ago that it would be a great idea to create resettlement campuses for refugees on college campuses. In fact, Guilford College in North Carolina kicked it off in the U.S. under the establishment of “Every Campus A Refuge” (ECAR), which now has dozens of colleges and universities involved. This of course is compounded by sanctuary campuses, cities, and states, the Welcome Corps, Fair Housing laws that don’t allow landlords to ask if they are legal immigrants, or the fact that some states allow undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition. Add to that the new “innovation districts” or “smart cities” that are developing around major universities and it creates quite a compound, while they all vie for satellite campuses in the heart of D.C.

Many college and university campuses have been utilizing their dorms, gyms, or off campus student housing to house illegal immigrants and refugees, so much so, that the House passed the H.R. 3941 Students Not Shelter Act that was introduced on June 9, 2023, to prevent federal funding to K-12 schools and colleges who provided support and housing to migrants. It never would have made it past the Senate or Biden.

Let’s not forget the billions going into affordable housing, vouchers, section 8, rental assistance, built-to-rent homes, and sponsorship push that has been rolled out by the Biden administration over the years. The number of agencies, organizations, and “helpers” throughout the country (and outside the country) serving this agenda is just staggering.

What’s equally concerning is the fact that colleges and universities began divesting in higher education long ago while focusing their endowments on real estate and big equity partners. Over the years, this landscape has increased rapidly. When Blackstone acquires the largest student housing company in the U.S. with over 140,000 beds across 190 properties, that is a huge red flag, especially considering all of the other evidence. And when universities like the University of California Regents decides to give Blackstone $4 billion dollars for investments in real estate and student housing, that too raises concern. Hundreds of colleges and universities are tied in with Blackstone through investments, joint ventures, or “education” related. Harvard is about to take on Blackstone’s CFO to help steward their $50.7 billion endowment, beginning this July. When the Middle East is investing in U.S. student housing, that too is a huge red flag. And remember, off-campus student housing doesn’t necessarily mean the renter is actually attending the college.

While the Israel-Hamas war rages on, they strike while the iron is hot and rollout the necessary smokescreens to accomplish one of their major goals – to take more control over endowments, academics, campuses, real estate, policies, and install the key players they need to make this all happen and eventually create new legislation in their favor. The smokescreen? College protests making demands that the schools divest in Israel. This isn’t to say that protests aren’t warranted or that students are a part of this smokescreen, though there are some well-funded student organizations involved. You get all of the donors to call in and complain about how this is being managed and have mainstream media flood the news with protests everywhere, taking it across over 100 campuses in a single sweep, while big donors threaten to suspend funding. Begin with Columbia University, where Economist Jeffrey Sachs sits prominently on his SDGs platform preaching for his UN cohorts, only later to go on Tucker Carlson and spin a tale about how universities need more oversight because of research labs and funding due to the U.S. government’s inability to call for peace and their desire to rule the world. Using the word “neocons” 13 times while taking jabs at Victoria Nuland, who served under George W. Bush, Obama, and Biden in various positions, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, knowing those names would spark the fuel in everyone wanting to cheer him on for his so-called disclosure and “awakening.” And before you know it, schools are agreeing to hold meetings to discuss their investments and figure out solutions. See how that works?

None of this is about the war for these power thirsty maniacs. None of this is about peace. This is all about controlling the money flowing through every college and university, housing control, changing policies all the way up the ladder to reach legislation for further control, building smart city campuses and indoctrination camps, potentially establishing a strategic home base for illegal immigrants within campuses to assist with future events off campus, and dominating the U.S. After all, according to Jeffrey Sachs, everyone should be in fear of a nuclear war caused by the power hungry U.S. “neocons” in government, as well as the next plandemic. They certainly shouldn’t be concerned about Blackstone, BlackRock, Vanguard, BIS, Central Banks, his UN buddies, WEF, hundreds of corporations, and corrupt billionaire families that are the ones pulling all the strings. No, these will be the folks that come to “save the day.”

In simple terms:

1) Create resettlement camps for illegal immigrants

2) Buy up shuttered real estate near campuses as well as student housing companies

3) Create smokescreens to carry out agenda

4) Build innovation districts otherwise known as smart cities

4) Keep people distracted from the money moving around and smart city campuses expanding

5) Reconfigure oversight of endowments, change policies, academics, and eventually legislation

6) Control the indoctrination camps, immigrant camps, and money why implementing control grid

 

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Young entrepreneurs are minting ten-figure fortunes faster than ever. In addition to the Mercor trio and Coplan, 15 other Under 30 alumni—including ScaleAI cofounder Lucy Guo, Reddit’s Steve Huffman and Cursor’s cofounders—became billionaires this year, while Guo’s cofounder Alexandr Wang and Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev (both former Under 30 honorees) regained their billionaire status after having fallen out of the ranks.

The budding billionaire has long been fascinated by markets and tech. When he was just 14, Coplan emailed the regional Securities and Exchange Commission office to ask how to create new marketplaces. “I did not get a response, but it’s a really funny email,” he says, grinning playfully as he thinks of his younger self. “It just shows that this stuff takes over a decade of percolating in your mind.”

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Coplan went on to study computer science at NYU, but dropped out in 2017 to work on various crypto projects that never took off. In 2020, he founded Polymarket to create a solution to the “rampant misinformation” he saw in the world: The company’s first market allowed users to bet on when New York City would reopen amid the pandemic. He soon expanded into elections and pop culture happenings, among other events.

But it didn’t take long for the company to butt heads with regulators. In January 2022, Polymarket paid a $1.4 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for offering unregistered markets. It was also ordered to block all U.S. users, but activity on Polymarket skyrocketed particularly during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, with bets totaling $3.6 billion. A week after the election, the FBI raided Coplan's apartment and seized his devices as part of an investigation into a possible violation of this agreement. Shortly after, Coplan posted on his X account that he saw the raid as “a last-ditch effort” from the Biden administration “to go after companies they deem to be associated with political opponents.”

In July, the Department of Justice and CFTC dropped the investigations—after which Sprecher reached out to Coplan for dinner—and less than a week later, Polymarket announced it had acquired CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange QCX to prepare for a compliant U.S. launch. QCX applied to be a federally-registered exchange in 2022—an application that was left dormant for three years before receiving approval less than two weeks before the acquisition was announced. When asked about the timing of the deal, Coplan points to CFTC acting chairwoman Caroline Pham, who President Trump tapped to lead the agency in January. “Caroline deserves a lot of credit for getting every single license that had been paused for no reason approved, as acting chairwoman in less than a year,” he says. Coplan had realized an acquisition might be the only way for Polymarket to legally operate in the U.S. as early as 2021 due to the lengthy federal approval process, a source familiar with the deal told Forbes.

Just two months after the acquisition and days after Donald Trump Jr. joined Polymarket’s advisory board, the company received federal approval to launch in the U.S. (Trump Jr. has also served as a strategic advisor to Polymarket’s main competitor Kalshi since January.)

Polymarket’s rapid rise has drawn critics. Dennis Kelleher, co-founder and CEO of Washington-based financial advocacy group Better Markets, told Forbes in an email that the current administration’s deregulation around prediction markets has unlocked a regulatory “loophole” to enable “unregulated gambling” under the CFTC, “which has zero expertise, capacity or resources to regulate and police these markets.” Kelleher added that with backing from the Trump family “who are directly trying to profit on this new gambling den… the massive deregulation and crypto hysteria will almost certainly end badly for the American people.”

Investors and businesses are scrambling to seize the moment of deregulation. “We had opportunities to invest in events markets earlier, but there was a lot of risk,” Sprecher says, listing the regulatory changes in favor of crypto and prediction markets under the current administration. “This was the moment to invest if we wanted to still be early in the space.”

In the last few months, Trump’s Truth Social and sportsbook FanDuel, as well as cryptocurrency exchanges Crypto.com, Coinbase and Gemini all announced their own plans to offer prediction markets. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said prediction markets, which were integrated into its platform in March, were helping drive record activity for the retail brokerage in its third quarter earnings call.

“People are starting to realize right now that the opportunities are endless,” says Dubin, the billionaire hedge fund veteran who invested in Polymarket earlier this year. He points to sports betting companies, which have been regulated by states as gambling activity and taxed accordingly. States like New York can tax up to 51% of sportsbooks’ revenue, but federally-regulated prediction markets can bypass state laws, avoiding taxes and operating in all 50 states. With the realization that prediction markets could upend the sports betting industry—which brought in $13.7 billion in revenue in 2024—businesses are quickly jumping on board despite pushback from state gambling regulators. In October, both Polymarket and Kalshi secured partnerships with sportsbook PrizePicks and the National Hockey League, and Polymarket announced exclusive partnerships with sportsbook DraftKings and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The disruption won’t be limited to sports betting. Alongside its investment, Intercontinental’s tens of thousands of institutional clients including large hedge funds and over 750 third-party providers of data will soon have access to Polymarket data, as it gets integrated into Intercontinental’s products such as indices to better inform investment decisions. It also hopes to work with Polymarket to work on initiatives around tokenization—or converting financial assets into digital tokens on blockchain technology—to allow traders on Intercontinental’s exchanges to trade more flexibly at all hours of the day, Sprecher says. What’s more, in November, Google Finance announced it would integrate Polymarket and Kalshi data into its search results, while Yahoo Finance also announced an exclusive partnership with Polymarket.

Despite flashy investors, partnerships and a record $2.4 billion of trading volume in November, Polymarket has yet to launch in the U.S. or turn a profit. Coplan and his investors have hinted at ways the company could make money one day—selling its data, charging fees to users, launching a cryptocurrency token (similar to Ethereum or Bitcoin)—but decline to confirm any specifics. For now, the only thing that’s certain is the bet Coplan is making on himself. “Going for it and having it not pan out is an infinitely better outcome than living your life as a what if,” he says.

Standing across from the New York Stock Exchange building, Coplan tilts his head up as he watches a massive banner with Polymarket’s logo get hoisted onto the exterior of the building. It’s been five years since founding. One year since the FBI raid. He’s taking it all in. “Against all odds,” the bright blue banner reads, rippling in the wind alongside three American flags protruding from the building.

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