# Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

**Type:** company  
**Status:** active  
**Domain:** internet-finance

## Overview

Intercontinental Exchange operates the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), CBOE holdings, and multiple commodity exchanges. ICE represents traditional financial infrastructure entering the prediction market space.

## Timeline

- **2025-10-XX** — Announced $2B strategic investment in Polymarket at $8B valuation with exclusive rights to distribute Polymarket's real-time probability data
- **2026-02-XX** — Launched "Polymarket Signals and Sentiment" product distributing Polymarket probability data
- **2026-03-XX** — Completed $600M direct cash investment in Polymarket

## Strategic Position

ICE's investment positions prediction markets as legitimate financial data infrastructure alongside options pricing and bond yields. The exclusive data distribution rights suggest ICE views probability distributions over events as a new asset class for institutional clients.

## Sources

- Cryip: ICE $600M Polymarket investment (2026-02-01)
- TRM Labs: Prediction market scale analysis (2026)