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ICE agrees to invest up to $2B in Polymarket
Intercontinental Exchange agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket at a ~$8 billion pre-investment valuation. ICE will distribute Polymarket's event-probability data to institutional clients worldwide and partner with Polymarket on tokenization initiatives, blending traditional financial infrastructure with emerging decentralized finance.
- ICE values Polymarket at ~$8B before the investment; the deal positions Polymarket as a mainstream market-data provider.
- ICE will distribute prediction market data to institutional investors as a new sentiment indicator for financial markets.
- Partnership on tokenization merges legacy exchange expertise with decentralized finance innovation.