Prediction Markets Go From Fringe to Frenzy as Wall Street, Silicon Valley Pile In
Polymarket Founder Shayne Coplan, center, rings the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 13.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergThe intimate meal, 60 floors above New York’s financial district, brought together a pillar of the Wall Street establishment and a young crypto upstart.
The host, billionaire septuagenarian Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, arrived in a suit. His guest, 27-year-old Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, walked in wearing a T-shirt, carrying a disposable water bottle and a paper bag from a bakery.