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-- PUBLIC NOTICE: BIRTH CERTIFICATE TRUST --

👉 (The Truth Shall Set You Free-Dinarian)

This reveals the specific section of the United States Municipal Code where the Birth Certificate Trust was established in 1995 and details the context of its creation.

A British Territorial corporation doing business as "the United States of America, Inc." went bankrupt in 1933. This has been publicly admitted in many places, including the Minutes of the Conference of Governors meeting on March 6, 1933.

All the British Territorial U.S. Citizens were bankrupted as franchises of this corporation.

So, as you can see, the Puerto Rican Bankruptcy Trustees set their individual estates aside in a sort of legal limbo.

They––members of the U.S. Military and Dependents–– could, if they wished, claim their "reversionary trust interest" as Americans.

As the U.S. Military had incorrectly misidentified all of us as their "dependents," we were all cast into this same limbo.

And all our estates were classified as belonging to "infant decedents".

What this means is either:
(1) the estate of a baby who literally died in infancy; or,
(2) the estate of a baby whose birthright estate was waived.

In our case, our birthright estates were waived by our unwitting Mothers when they signed the "birth registration" paperwork at the hospital.

That allowed us to be human trafficked on paper and deprived us of our birthright as Americans.

Instead, we were assigned the political status of Puerto Ricans, U.S. Citizenship, and, please note. Puerto Rico is a British Commonwealth nation.

None of this was lawful or legal, either one. It was not disclosed to our Mothers. It was not disclosed to us when we were older.

In order to "legalize" this mammoth crime and fraud, they allowed the victims (if they knew about it) to assert their reversionary trust interest––that is, reclaim their birthright estate, so long as they rolled it over into the United States (Trust)––and what is the United States Trust?

Remember that the Confederation and the Federal Republic were both rendered inoperable in 1861? And all their assets were rolled up into trusts?

State Trusts were created at the State level, and the United States Trust(s) were created at the Federal level.

From the foreign perspective of the Perpetrators of this giant con game, we are all assets of the United States Trust and that was where our birthright estate was cashiered.

We could choose to be bankrupt with them, or we could choose to return to our birthright status and roll all our assets into the United States Trust.

We had to assert our "reversionary trust interest"––that is, assert our natural political status and reject being classified as British Territorial U.S. Citizens.

If you think about it, you've seen these trusts all your life:
・Northern Trust.
・Southern Trust.
・U.S. Trust.
・United States Trust.
・United States Trustees.

The person to be notified at that time, was the head of the Internal Revenue Service.

Since then, the person(s) to be notified are:
・the United States Secretary of State
・the United States Trustees
・the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service

What I didn't go on to explain was the "out of the frying pan and into the fire" nature of this partial remedy.

Yes, you can assert your natural political birthright, but they will only allow you to claim to be a United States (Federal Republic) Trust chattel and still not recognize that you are an actual American and not obligatorily attached to the long-vanished American Federal Republic.

The purported "remedy" leaves you in a false political status either way.

Either you are mischaracterized as if you were a bankrupt Puerto Rican U.S. Citizen, or you are mischaracterized as a United States Trust chattel, and they control the United States Trust.

The Truth, of course, is that you were never a U.S. Citizen and never a United States Citizen of the Federal Republic, either.

You were naturally and factually an American born in one of the States of the Union and take your nationality from the State where you were born.

All this impersonation and mischaracterization going on in international and global jurisdictions claiming to own you, own your body, own your name and all other assets, etc., and them, claiming to be your Trustees and Representatives, is all fraud.

The claim that your American Government was in interregnum is also a form of fraud. The American Government was never called into Session because it was never informed of the circumstances. Our Federal Employees owed that Due Diligence to the American People, but instead, they acted in Breach of Trust.

So, I can, and I have, claimed my inherited "reversionary trust interest" in the Federal Republic and Confederation, but as the presumed Donor of all my assets held in the United States Trust(s), I have also asked my purported Trustees to dissolve the trust.

The Donor can require the dissolution of the United States Trust(s); the beneficiary can only request it.

There you have it.

They stole my identity and finagled to get my Mother to waive my birthright estate as an American. They trafficked my stolen identity into the international jurisdiction of the sea and pretended that I was a U.S. Citizen or Dependent thereof. As a remedy, they allowed me to adopt a different foreign political status, that of a United States Citizen (a denizen of the vanished Federal Republic), and having done that, they cashiered my assets in the United States Trust(s)––which they control, except for one thing.

Via this operation, I became a Donor, and a Donor can always dissolve the trust.

So there is a logic to everything, and now you know why they are so desperately trying to "disqualify" me and, at the same time, so frantic to "restore" the Federal Republic––a job they can't do because they lack the standing as Americans to do it.

Remember, they are all U.S. Citizens. They never asserted their reversionary trust interest. They were never recognizable as United States Citizens of the Federal Republic. And as I have continued my march home to Wisconsin in the character of a Federal Dual Citizen as originally intended, they've all been left stopgobbered.

All my actions have been recorded and all claims cured, everything given Due Process. So, even in their whacky fictional world, they have no cause to complain nor any recourse.

What goes around, comes around. They outsmarted themselves. They left themselves ineligible to "restore" anything American or claim anything American. They certainly don't have any superior claim to the Union States and States of the Union. Any old Great-Grandma from Wisconsin who stands as a Donor is first in line, first in time, and has a superior claim to all American assets.

So long as I was leaving their fraudulent con game behind, I made sure to take all my countrymen with me so that any American who doesn't actually work for the Federal Government Subcontractors and isn't knowingly and voluntarily adopting their foreign citizenship(s), is free to declare their American State National political status and come home to truth and sanity.

Even those Americans currently working for a Federal Subcontractor need not worry about this. When they quit or retire, they can come back home to their natural political status like anyone else.

To recap:

Undeclared Foreign Agents working for European interests took "me"––my Given Name––to sea as a baby only three weeks old, and registered me as a British Territorial U.S. Citizen under British Crown copyright. As a remedy for this (and to "legalize" their own actions), they "allowed" me to claim my reversionary trust interest as a Donor to the United States Trust(s)––which I did. Having arrived back in the American domain, I then exercised my position as a Donor to dissolve the Trust in favor of my Beneficiary, a little ole American Lawful Person born in Wisconsin on June 6th, 1956.

To symbolically record this in terms that must be understood, I initiated a name change from ANNA MARIA RIEZINGER (the Municipal Trust documented in the first paragraph of page 19) to Anna Maria Riezinger (the name of the "lost" British Territorial Person, which is the same as the name of my Lawful State Person).

I then changed the venue to land jurisdiction by recording the Name Change and posted my Notice with a Certified Copy of the recording to the Court that granted the name change––thus returning full circle back to the (Territorial) State of Wisconsin––where I had been snatched as a baby––and then into the State Trust, as a State Trust Asset Donor. As Donor, I ordered my "presumed" Trustees to dissolve the Alaska State Trust and the Wisconsin State Trust, too, and set me and my assets free, returning all my purloined assets to me and to my control, as I am a living, breathing woman, a Wisconsinite, in no need of their services.

These foreign "federal" corporations here on our shores to provide "essential government services" created State-of-State franchises for themselves and had them act as Public Usufructs under color of law. One of these foreign State-of-State franchise corporations, doing business as the State of Wisconsin, latched onto my Given Name and used it to create a franchise named after me for their own benefit: Anna Maria Riezinger (Inc.) defined as a British Territorial Person and U.S. Citizen. They owe me the Usufructuary Duty to hold me harmless from any charges or harm resulting from the existence of this franchise entity.

Similarly, the Municipal Government did the same thing, only their action resulted in the creation of a Municipal franchise corporation named after me: ANNA MARIA RIEZINGER and numerous derivative corporations, such as: ANNA M RIEZINGER (a public transmitting utility) and RIEZINGER, ANNA M (the estate of a "lost" sailor in the British Merchant Marines) and so on. All these are considered "citizens of the United States". Again, those who created these franchises and named them after me owe me the Usufructuary Duty to hold me harmless from any charges or harms resulting from the existence of these corporate franchises named after me.

Instead, both of these dishonest "service providers" reorganized as commercial and municipal corporations, respectively, have used these fictional franchises to impersonate me, to subject me under foreign law, and they have enforced laws and fines and fees and performances and mortgages and taxes that I never owed using these devices.

These are all deliberate crimes of personage and barratry against their actual American employers. This has been done in Gross Breach of Trust and Violation of their Service Contracts––that is, The Constitution of the United States of America and The Constitution of the United States.

The more interesting thing about all this, aside from the convoluted and endless impersonations and the misuse and abuse of trusts to purloin and control assets that never belonged to the perpetrators, is that all that is truly required of me to bust this fraud scheme into a million little pieces, is my clearly stated intention on the record, so here it is in this Court of Record: Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals; Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents:

It is my intent and act to dissolve all foreign public and private trusts containing assets belonging to me and I direct all my assets to be returned to me, to my possession, and my control.

It is my intent to live my life as a freeborn American, a Wisconsinite in full possession of my land and soil, my water and air, together with my Good Name under my copyright, and with all my assets in all jurisdictions, both public and private––meaning all my physical and intellectual and energetic assets––in my direct control and possession, intact and immune from any foreign legal presumptions or attacks of any kind.

My intent is to dissolve all foreign-generated trusts and bonds that have been foisted off on me and used to cashier my assets for the benefit of foreign interests, both public and private. My intent is to clear the air and vacate the seas so that there is no longer any question about my identity, my political status, my standing, nor any cause to think that I have abandoned my Natural and Unalienable Rights as an American in favor of any foreign government.

It is my will and intent that all Americans who have been mistreated, impersonated, commandeered, deceived, defrauded, and subjected under unconscionable contracts obtained under color of law and enforced under False Pretense of War receive back their assets and that their unincorporated American Government is recognized as the true and lawful Government of this country. So said, so signed, and so sealed.

Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
August 5th 2024

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The future of Crypto x AI is about to go crazy.

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💠 'Based Agent' enables creation of custom AI agents
💠 Users set up personalized agents in < 3 minutes
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1. Open Access: Democratized access to advanced trading
2. Automated Txns: Complex trades + streamlined on-chain activity
3. AI Dominance: Est ~80% of crypto 👉txns done by AI agents by 2025

🚹 I personally wouldn't bet against Brian Armstrong and Jesse Pollak.

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  • The name will officially become Encyclopedia Galactica once the project has earned it, even just slightly

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  • Anyone can access it, with no gatekeepers, no paywalls, and no centralized control

  • xAI plans to create many copies and distribute them periodically across the solar system

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  • The purpose is survival level redundancy in case civilization collapses or slips into barbarism

  • The project explicitly takes inspiration from the destruction of the Library of Alexandria

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Stellar CEO Reveals Where Real Opportunity Lies in Crypto Market: Details

In a recent tweet, Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) CEO and Executive Director Denelle Dixon defines what "real opportunity" is in blockchain as a new financial future beckons.

The SDF CEO was reacting to a recent Bloomberg report on Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY), Nasdaq, S&P Global and iCapital participation in a new $50 million investment round by Digital Asset Holdings. This comes as some of Wall Street’s biggest names embrace the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies to handle traditional assets.

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Real opportunity defined

While Wall Street’s biggest names betting on blockchain might be one of the most significant adoption milestones in the digital asset market, Dixon defines what real opportunity is and what it is not.

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Stellar eyes privacy upgrade

A new protocol upgrade is on the horizon for the Stellar network: X-Ray, which lays the groundwork for developers to build privacy applications on Stellar using zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography.

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XDC Network's acquisition of Contour Network marks a silent shift to connect the digital trade infrastructure to real-time, tokenized settlement rails.

In a world where cross-border payments still take days and trap trillions in idle liquidity, integrating Contour’s trade workflows with XDC Network Blockchains' ISO 20022 financial messaging standard to bridge TradFi and Web3 in Trade Finance.

The Current State of Cross-Border Trade Settlements

Cross-border payments remain one of the most inefficient parts of global finance. For decades, companies have inter-dependency with banks and their correspondent banks across the world, forcing them to maintain trillions of dollars in pre-funded nostro and vostro balances — the capital that sits idle while transactions crawl across borders.

Traditional settlement is slow, often 1–5 days, and often with ~2-3% in FX and conversion fees. For every hour a corporation can’t access its own cash increases the cost of financing, tightens liquidity that could be used for other purposes, which in turn slows economic activity.

Before SWIFT, payments were fully manual. Intermediary banks maintained ledgers, and reconciliation across multiple institutions limited speed and volume.

SWIFT reshaped global payments by introducing a secure, standardized messaging infrastructure through ISO 20022 - which quickly became the language of money for 11,000+ institutions in 200 countries.

But SWIFT only fixed the messaging — not the movement. Actual value still moves through slow, capital-intensive correspondent chains.

Regulated and Compliant Stablecoin such as USDC (Circle) solves the part SWIFT never could: instant, on-chain settlement.

Stablecoin Settlement revamping Trade and Tokenization

Stablecoin such as USDC is a digital token pegged to the US Dollar, still the most widely used currency for trade, enabling the movement of funds instantly 24*7 globally - transparently, instantly, and without the need for any intermediaries and the need to lock in trillions of dollars of idle cash.

Tokenized settlement replaces multi-day reconciliation with on-chain finality, reducing:

  • Dependency on intermediaries
  • Operational friction
  • Trillions locked in idle liquidity

For corporates trapped in long working capital cycles, this is transformative.

Digital dollars like USDC make the process simple:

Fiat → Stablecoin → On-Chain Transfer → Fiat

This hybrid model is already widely used across remittances, payouts, and treasury flows.

But one critical piece of global commerce is still lagging:

👉 Trade finance.

The Missing link is still Trade Finance Infrastructure.

While payments innovation has raced ahead, trade finance infrastructure hasn’t kept up. Document flows, letters of credit, and supply-chain financing remain siloed, paper-heavy, and operationally outdated.

This is exactly where the next breakthrough will happen - and why the recent XDC Network acquisition of Contour is a silent revolution.

It transforms to a new era of trade-driven liquidity through an end-to-end digital trade from shipping docs to payment confirmation – one infrastructure that powers all.

The breakthrough won’t come from payments alone — it will come from connecting trade finance to real-time settlement rails.

The XDC + Contour Shift: A Silent Revolution

  • Contour already connects global banks and corporates through digital LCs and digitized trade workflows.
  • XDC Blockchain brings a settlement layer built for speed, tokenization, and institutional-grade interoperability and ISO 20022 messaging compatibility

Contour’s digital letter of credit workflows will be integrated with XDC’s blockchain network to streamline trade documentation and settlement.

Together, they form the first end-to-end digital trade finance network linking:

Documentation → Validation → Settlement all under a single infrastructure.

XDC Ventures (XVC.TECH) is launching a Stable-Coin Lab to work with financial institutions on regulated stablecoin pilots for trade to deepen institutional trade-finance integration through launch of pilots with banks and corporates for regulated stable-coin issuance and settlement.

The Bottom Line

Payments alone won’t transform Global Trade Finance — Trade finance + Tokenized Settlement will.

This is the shift happening underway XDC Network's acquisition of Contour is the quiet catalyst.

Learn how trade finance is being revolutionised:

https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/xdc-ventures-acquires-contour-network-launches-stablecoin-lab-trade-finance-2025-10-22/

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Inside The Deal That Made Polymarket’s Founder One Of The Youngest Billionaires On Earth🌍

One year ago, the FBI raided Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan’s apartment. Now, the college dropout is a billionaire at age 27.

In July, Jeffrey Sprecher, the 70-year-old billionaire CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, sat at Manhatta, an upscale restaurant in the financial district overlooking the sprawling New York City skyline from the 60th floor. As a sommelier weaved through tables pouring wine, in walked Shayne Coplan—in a T-shirt and jeans, clutching a plastic water bottle and a paper bag with a bagel he’d picked up en route. Sprecher chuckles as he recalls his first impression of the boyish, eccentric entrepreneur: “An old bald guy that works at the New York Stock Exchange, where we require that you wear a suit and tie, next to a mop-headed guy in a T-shirt that's 27.” But Sprecher was fascinated by Polymarket, Coplan’s blockchain-based prediction market, and after dinner, he made his move: “I asked Shayne if he would consider selling us his company.”

Prediction markets like Polymarket let thousands of ordinary people bet on future events—the unemployment rate, say, or when BitCoin will hit an all-time high. In aggregate, prediction market bets have proven to be something of a crystal ball with the wisdom of the crowd often proving itself more prescient than expert opinion. For instance, Polymarket punters predicted that Trump would prevail in the 2024 presidential election, when many national pundits were sure that Kamala Harris would win.

Coplan initially turned down Sprecher’s buyout offer. But discussions led to negotiations and eventually a deal. In October, Intercontinental announced it had invested $2 billion for an up to 25% stake in the company, bringing the young solo founder the balance he was looking for. “We're consumer, we’re viral, we're culture. They’re finance, they’re headless and they’re infrastructure,” Coplan tells Forbes in a recent interview.

At the same time, Coplan announced investments from other billionaires including Figma’s Dylan Field, Zynga’s Mark Pincus, Uber’s Travis Kalanick and hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin. A longtime Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, Coplan even convinced lead singer Anthony Kiedis to invest after a mutual acquaintance brought the musician to Coplan’s apartment one day. “He's buzzing my door, and I’m like, ‘holy shit,'” Coplan recalls, his bright blue eyes widening. “I love their music. A lot of the inspiration [for my work] comes from the music that I listen to.”

Thanks to the deals, Polymarket’s valuation quickly shot to $9 billion, making the 2025 Under 30 alum the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, with an estimated 11% stake worth $1 billion. His reign was short: twenty days later, he was overtaken as the youngest by the three 22-year-old founders of AI startup Mercor.

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.”

Two years later, Coplan showed up at the offices of internet startup Genius uninvited after multiple emails of his asking for an internship went ignored. At age 16—at least a decade younger than anyone in that office—he secured his first job after making a memorable impression with his “wild curls” and “encyclopedic knowledge of billionaire tech entrepreneurs.” “If he chooses to become a tech entrepreneur, which seems likely, I have no doubt that we’ll be seeing his name again in the press before long,” Chris Glazek, his manager at the time, wrote in Coplan’s college recommendation letter.

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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