Intercontinental Exchange, parent firm of the New York Stock Exchange, will reportedly invest up to $2 billion in prediction market Polymarket. The deal puts the valuation at approximately $8 billion pre-investment and will make ICE become the platform’s global distributor of event-driven data.
Beyond capital, ICE will pipe Polymarket sentiment indicators to institutional clients and the companies have agreed to partner on future tokenization initiatives, extending the prediction-market dataset into traditional market workflows.
ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said the investment pairs the NYSE owner with a firm “pioneering change within the Decentralized Finance space,” while Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan called it a “major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream.”
ICE said the all-cash consideration is not expected to have a material impact on its 2025 financial results or capital-return plans, and it will discuss the investment on its Q3 earnings call on October 30, 2025.
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