David Yaffe-Bellany

Since Trump's taken over, there's been a complete change in attitude toward these platforms.

Copeland, whose house had only just been raided by the FBI, was invited to a summit for tech executives at the White House.

Donald Trump Jr.

became a formal advisor to Polly Market.

And most importantly, the Justice Department under Trump officially dropped this investigation into Copeland.

And this is all happening in the context of a legal battle involving one of PolyMarket's competitors, a company called Kalshi that also offers its own prediction market, which around the time of the election had won a big legal dispute with the CFTC.

Yeah, they vanish.

So you've got this culmination of a bunch of things, a kind of pro-business attitude brought by the Trump administration, this legal victory secured by Kelshi.

And so while it didn't happen overnight, what that meant is that U.S.-based users were now allowed to use these platforms without a VPN.

They become easily available to almost anyone.

And that feeds into this larger cultural shift.

People are using these platforms more and more.

They're more available in the United States.

With every passing week comes some new major partnership that brings them more and more into the mainstream.

Dow Jones is teaming up with Polymarket.

Big media organizations like CNN, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal have formal partnerships with CalSheet and Polymarket to use data from the sites in their news reports.

The Golden Globes featured polymarket odds on the live broadcast.

Right before the best podcast award was announced, polymarket odds were projected on the screen.

And so it's been this huge kind of cultural awakening toward these things.

Yeah, the scale is enormous.