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Shayne Coplan and the price of being right
A New York kid with an early interest in Ethereum built Polymarket around a stubborn question: what do people really believe when money is on the line? Now his experiment in reading the future has to meet the demands of the financial establishment.
Armand Saramout Keeps Finding the Growth Lever Nobody Labeled
Before Daily.fun, there were election dispatches, Atlanta street teams, an AI video editor, a social metaverse, and a prediction market. Armand Saramout’s career is a study in making participation feel like the product.
The Blackstone Alum Betting That Wall Street Runs on Blockchain Next
Alex Marinier left private equity to write the earliest checks into blockchain finance. Six years and one Polymarket later, New Form Capital is raising again - and the institutions it once worked for are finally listening.
Timothy Chung
Timothy Chung is the co-founder and CEO of Unifold (YC W26), a New York based startup building multi-chain crypto and stablecoin deposit and payment infrastructure that lets any app accept on-chain deposits in under ten lines of code. He studied computer science at Columbia and Cambridge, was an early engineer at Instabase, worked on Polymarket, and co-led a central bank digital currency initiative for the Marshall Islands out of MIT. Before Unifold he co-founded Streambird, a wallet-as-a-service platform acquired by MoonPay that became MoonPay Wallets and helped onboard tens of millions of users to apps like Phantom and Polymarket.
Splash Sports
Splash Sports is a Denver-based skill-based sports gaming platform that modernizes the office pool. Fans act as their own commissioners, creating and joining peer-to-peer real-money contests - Survivor, Pick'em, Tiers, and daily fantasy - across NFL, golf, and other sports. Built on the acquired RunYourPool and OfficeFootballPool audiences, Splash serves more than 2 million active users across 44 U.S. states and Canada, and in 2026 partnered with Polymarket to run the largest pro football survivor contest ever, with $21 million guaranteed.
Fun
Fun (fun.xyz) is a payments infrastructure company that moves money on and off blockchains for modern fintech apps. Its rails power deposits, withdrawals, orchestration, and checkout for platforms like Polymarket, Aave, and Lighter - processing more than $18 billion a year. Founded in 2022 by Stanford dropout Alex Fine, the company raised a $72 million Series A in early 2026 led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire, aiming to be 'the front door' to the new digital economy.
Alex Fine
Alex Fine is the founder and CEO of Fun (fun.xyz), a crypto-fiat payments company that builds the deposit and withdrawal rails behind apps like Polymarket, Lighter, and Aave. Fun processes over $18 billion in annual payment volume and raised a $72 million Series A in early 2026 led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire. A Stanford math and computer-science dropout who shipped his first acquired app at 16, Fine wants Fun to be 'the front door' for a tokenized economy where anyone can buy anything with anything.