Exclusive | Polymarket believes archrival Kalshi could be spying on its NYC offices, employees: ‘Too many coincidences’

Nypost · 🇮🇷 public Iran · Jun 03, 2026 · 1282 words · By Marc Vartabedian

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Business exclusive Polymarket believes archrival Kalshi could be spying on its NYC offices, employees: ‘Too many coincidences’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Business exclusive Polymarket believes archrival Kalshi could be spying on its NYC offices, employees: ‘Too many coincidences’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GooglePolymarket — the fast-growing prediction-markets app that has allowed users to wager on everything from sports to the weather to the Iran war — is scrambling to get to the bottom of what it believes could be a case of corporate…

Common ground

The New York-based betting platform — headed by 27-year-old, shaggy-haired CEO Shayne Coplan — has amassed a working dossier that it has dubbed “copycat” that has detailed roughly a dozen of eyebrow-raising incidents and data points — including examples where…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Doubt: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Kalshi, launched in 2018, has raised roughly $2.6 billion and was valued most recently at $22 billion?
How does this story connect market competition with Corporate Espionage over the next few days?

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Kalshi, launched in 2018, has raised roughly $2.6 billion and was valued most recently at $22 billion”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 2: “Polymarket — the fast-growing prediction-markets app that has allowed users to wager on everything from sports to the weather to the Iran war”

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Wikipedia and official platform descriptions confirm Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based prediction market allowing bets on sports, weather, and other real-world outcomes.

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web search NEUTRAL — Polymarket is an American cryptocurrency -based prediction market which offers a platform where individuals can place bets on future outcomes, including sports matches, economic indicators, weather pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymarket

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web search NEUTRAL — Polymarket US is operated by QCX LLC d/b/a Polymarket US, a CFTC-regulated Designated Contract Market. This international platform is not regulated by the CFTC and operates independently.
https://polymarket.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Everything you need to know about Polymarket prediction markets and decentralized trading. The platform is a decentralized prediction market where users trade on the outcome of real-world events. You …
https://polymarkett.at/

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Claim 3: “Paradigm, a venture-capital firm that backs Kalshi, could be spying on its offices in lower Manhattan. That’s because Paradigm rents out offices in the trendy Soho neighborhood that are located directly across the street from Polymarket’s.”

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Multiple web sources report that Paradigm is a VC firm backing Kalshi and that there are concerns regarding Paradigm's office proximity to Polymarket in Soho, NYC.

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 9, 2026 ... → In official statements, Kalshi and backer Paradigm describe prediction markets as a new financial asset class, and Kalshi has signed a data ...
https://www.facebook.com/axiosnews/posts/-is-kalshi-advisor-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Polymarket is an American cryptocurrency-based prediction market which offers a platform where individuals can place bets on future outcomes, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymarket

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... Specifically, some Polymarket employees raised concerns in recent months that Paradigm, a venture-capital firm that backs Kalshi, could be ...
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/business/polymarket-believes-a…

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Claim 4: “By Monday, Kalshi had begun running nearly identical ads with the same “Hey California” banner”

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Claim 5: “Polymarket insiders said the company, since January, had been developing a tool that would allow users to trade perpetual futures contracts, or “perps”... An internal team set the announcement date for April 21”

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The provided evidence for claim 7 contains general news about oil and Iran, but does not mention the development of 'perps' or the April 21 announcement date.

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web search NEUTRAL — ・ Oil Futures Edge Up Ahead of Long U.S. Weekend. AP News. ・ Iran warns oil tankers to use approved routes in Strait of Hormuz or face a ‘forceful response’. The New York Times.
https://polymarket.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Powerful data, analytics, and intelligence for Polymarket traders.Trade. 1 of 1. $77,574,613. 24h Polymarket Volume. 8,337. Available Markets.
https://polymarketanalytics.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Josho555's Polymarket profile — +$29.7K total PNL, 48.4% win rate, $16K portfolio. Open positions, PNL chart & trade history.
https://polysmartwallet.com/trader/0xabffe8faee24f24bab92fb9…

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Claim 6: “Polymarket has raised roughly $2 billion since it was founded in 2020 and has been aiming for a roughly $15 billion valuation in recent deal talks, according to analytics firm PitchBook.”

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Claim 7: “Kalshi... posted on X on April 13. That post shows a video of what appears to be an infinite Slinky with the caption “Timeless””

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a specific X post by Kalshi on April 13 featuring a Slinky.

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Claim 8: “Kalshi, led by CEO Tarek Mansour, operates under US Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations while Polymarket operates a significant portion of its business offshore. Polymarket has a limited US product that is subject to CFTC regulations.”

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Claim 9: “a screenshot of a post announcing a similar product by trading platform Webull, which said it was releasing the tool in partnership with Kalshi. Kalshi and Webull’s launch was time-stamped in a press release reviewed by The Post on June 10, 9 a.m.”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 10: “about an hour before Polymarket’s announcement was slated to go live, the tech news site The Information published an article citing anonymous sources revealing that Kalshi was planning to host its own perps trading product.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific timing of The Information's article relative to Polymarket's announcement.

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Claim 11: “A Polymarket team had settled on a Feb. 12 launch for a “pop up” grocery store in lower Manhattan called Polymarket to offer free groceries for the first 300 people waiting in line.”

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Multiple sources (Odaily, LinkedIn, and other web results) confirm the February 12th free grocery store pop-up event in Lower Manhattan.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military strike in Venezuela and captured incumbent Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The US operation, codenamed Operatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_interventio…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_the_United_States

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web search NEUTRAL — On February 12th local time in the US, the crypto prediction market platform Polymarket held a charity event in Lower Manhattan, New York, opening a free grocery store named "The Polymarket," which is…
https://www.odaily.news/en/post/5209361

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Claim 12: “about nine days before Polymarket was set to go live, Kalshi launched a free-grocery publicity stunt in New York, setting up shop inside a Westside Market location in the East Village.”

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Multiple sources confirm Kalshi launched a competing grocery stunt at Westside Market in the East Village shortly before Polymarket's event.

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web search NEUTRAL — Weird enough, Polymarket wasn’t the only prediction market offering free groceries to New Yorkers this week. Competitor Kalshi paid for $50 worth of free groceries per person at a Westside Market loca…
https://gizmodo.com/zohran-mamdani-responds-to-polymarkets-f…

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web search NEUTRAL — But about nine days before Polymarket was set to go live, Kalshi launched a free-grocery publicity stunt in New York, setting up shop inside a Westside Market location in the East Village. Kalshi hand…
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/business/polymarket-believes-a…

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web search NEUTRAL — The dueling 'free grocery' stunts from Polymarket and Kalshi in NYC.Kalshi's offering arrived first, offering shoppers up to $50 worth of free groceries at Westside Market, a grocery store in Manhatta…
https://www.businessinsider.com/polymarket-kalshi-free-groce…

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Claim 13: “a Polymarket mobile ad on Meta for football betting that targeted California users last summer... Polymarket began running the ads on Friday Aug. 22”

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Claim 14: “The New York-based betting platform — headed by 27-year-old, shaggy-haired CEO Shayne Coplan”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm Shayne Coplan is the CEO of Polymarket, born in 1998 (making him 27 in the context of the reports), and based in New York.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Manifold, formerly known as Manifold Markets, is an online prediction market platform. Users engage in competitive forecasting using play money called 'Mana'. Topics on Manifold have included the 2024…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_(prediction_market)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Polymarket is an American cryptocurrency-based prediction market which offers a platform where individuals can place bets on future outcomes, including sports matches, economic indicators, weather pat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymarket

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shayne Coplan (born 1998) is an American entrepreneur and technologist, best known as the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based prediction market. In October …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayne_Coplan

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Claim 15: “a June 10, 2025, post on X where Polymarket announced a new product that allows users to bet whether crypto prices will go up or down each hour. The actual post on X was timestamped at 9:01 a.m.”

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Claim 16: “Polymarket’s Soho office this spring had some of its windows tinted”

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The claim that windows were tinted in the Soho office is reported in a specific news context (KuCoin), but not corroborated by independent secondary sources.

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web search NEUTRAL — Polymarket tinted its SoHo windows this spring over fears Kalshi backer Paradigm was viewing screens.Polymarket tinted some windows this spring, and staff have privately raised the prospect of Kalshi …
https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/polymarket-accuses-kalshi-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Featured markets. Paraguay vs. France.・ Fed's Warsh plans to harness better economic data within a year. CNN.
https://polymarket.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Explore the complete Polymarket traders leaderboard with real-time stats on profit and loss (PnL), current holdings value, active positions, wins, and losses.
https://polymarketanalytics.com/traders

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Claim 17: “The team, which began working on the grocery store in November, inked a $643,380 lease in January that included branding and production for the five-day event.”

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While the event itself is corroborated, the specific lease amount of $643,380 and the January signing date are not found in the provided evidence snippets.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kalshi Inc. is a prediction market platform based in Manhattan, New York City, that launched in July 2021. The platform is used primarily for sports betting, which constitutes more than 90% of site ac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalshi

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