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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – parent company of the New York Stock Exchange – is investing $2B in Polymarket, a fast-growing prediction market platform known for its crowd-sourced probabilities on politics, sports, and global events. The deal values 
Polymarket at $9B post-investment.
What’s the Scoop?
- Major Investment: ICE’s $2B cash investment in decentralized finance marks one of the largest institutional deals in DeFi history and signals Wall Street’s growing interest in prediction markets as data and trading tools.
- Data Distribution Deal: ICE will become the global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven data — providing institutional investors access to crowd-sourced sentiment indicators on markets, politics, and culture.
- Tokenization Tie-Up: The firms plan to collaborate on tokenization initiatives, exploring how decentralized infrastructure and blockchain-based assets can complement ICE’s regulated financial systems.
- Executive Commentary: ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher called the partnership a fusion of “centuries of market-building experience” with Polymarket’s “revolutionary” user-driven model. Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan said the collaboration “brings prediction markets into the financial mainstream.”
We are excited to announce that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) — the parent company of @NYSE, is making a $2b strategic investment at a $9b post-money valuation.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) October 7, 2025
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