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There\u2019s no shortage<\/span> of bonkers details about Polymarket. The government alleges that both a special forces soldier<\/a> and a longtime Google employee<\/a> used the prediction market to amass small fortunes by insider trading; CEO Shayne Coplan had his apartment raided<\/a> by FBI agents, who entered via battering ram; and one of its executives reportedly paid influencers<\/a> through his personal PayPal account to hype up the company.<\/p>\n

But one of the biggest oddities about Polymarket has remained somewhat overlooked: What\u2019s going on with the Panama-based company it set up to comply with a settlement it made with the federal government? And why, as WIRED\u2019s reporting suggests, do some employees of the Panamanian company appear to have worked from New York?<\/p>\n

The prediction market with ties to Donald Trump Jr.<\/a> has an unusually convoluted setup. In 2022, federal regulators said it was operating as an unlicensed derivatives exchange, kicked it out of the country, and barred it from serving US-based customers. Prior to the ban, Adventure One QSS, a corporate entity in Panama, was established, as first reported<\/a> by Sportico. Adventure One QSS was based offshore so that it could take over<\/a> operational responsibilities for Polymarket\u2019s flagship platform. A different US-based outfit, Polymarket US, was established in 2025 and is overseen by an entity called QCX LLC. To this day, Polymarket US is the only Polymarket platform that can legally serve US customers.<\/p>\n

Despite this structure, WIRED found that Adventure One QSS had staff working out of the US. Former Polymarket employees tell WIRED that some Adventure One QSS staffers have resided in New York, including some who worked from the company\u2019s Manhattan-based headquarters.<\/p>\n

These employees did not travel to Panama, report to anyone in Panama, or interact with Panama-based colleagues\u2014because, they say, there were no colleagues there. Instead, they say, the Adventure One QSS staff was spread out across a number of other countries, including the US.<\/p>\n

The finer points of this structure are important. The 2022 settlement fined Blockratize\u2014a corporate entity associated with Polymarket\u2014$1.4 million and ordered it to \u201cwind down\u201d offering markets that violated the Commodity Exchange Act. The agreement also required the company to stop violating the CEA and other Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations. Former CFTC employees see the location of Adventure One\u2019s staff as relevant to the agreement. \u201cWe would have really liked to know that the people purportedly in Panama weren\u2019t actually in Panama,\u201d one former CFTC lawyer tells WIRED.<\/p>\n

As Sportico reported,<\/a> Adventure One QSS did initially name<\/a> Panama residents on its incorporation papers in 2021, including Mario Ernesto Garc\u00eda de Paredes, a lawyer referred to as the company\u2019s \u201cresident agent.\u201d A woman named Diana Munoz was listed as the company president for two months before being replaced by Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who is based out of New York. Another man who appears to be based in Panama, Omar Camargo, was listed as secretary. Garc\u00eda de Paredes did not respond to WIRED\u2019s requests for comment, and Munoz and Camargo could not be reached for clarification about their roles. Munoz and Camargo appear to have worked together before; they are listed<\/a> as executives in securities filings connected to a company called Internet Art Foundation.<\/p>\n

WIRED\u2019s reporting aligns with previous coverage from NPR, which found<\/a> that the company\u2019s headquarters in a skyscraper in Panama City was empty and that the company did not have Panama-based staff. In contrast, Adventure One QSS workers in the United States have allegedly been productive and present. One former Polymarket staffer said that the workers in New York who \u201ctouched code,\u201d set up event contracts, or otherwise dealt with the offshore platform were all technically working for Adventure One QSS, \u201cbut there was no barrier\u201d dividing the corporate arms in practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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