ICE is making a strategic pivot toward alternative data, capitalizing on Polymarket’s proven accuracy in forecasting real-world events to sell a new form of intelligence to hedge funds and asset managers. According to a press release dated Oct. 7, Intercontinental…ICE is making a strategic pivot toward alternative data, capitalizing on Polymarket’s proven accuracy in forecasting real-world events to sell a new form of intelligence to hedge funds and asset managers. According to a press release dated Oct. 7, Intercontinental…

ICE commits $2b to Polymarket for global data distribution

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ICE is making a strategic pivot toward alternative data, capitalizing on Polymarket’s proven accuracy in forecasting real-world events to sell a new form of intelligence to hedge funds and asset managers.

Summary
  • ICE is investing $2 billion in Polymarket, valuing the company at $8 billion pre-investment.
  • The NYSE owner will distribute Polymarket’s event-driven data to institutional clients globally.
  • The deal marks a major institutional endorsement of decentralized prediction markets.

According to a press release dated Oct. 7, Intercontinental Exchange will invest up to $2 billion in cash in the decentralized prediction-market platform Polymarket, valuing the five-year-old company at $8 billion before the investment.

The cornerstone of the deal is not just the capital injection. It grants the NYSE owner exclusive global rights to distribute Polymarket’s raw, event-driven probability data directly to its network of institutional clients, turning the platform’s crowdsourced sentiment into a packaged financial product.

ICE and Polymarket signal a new era for prediction markets

For Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan, the ICE deal represents a watershed moment of institutional validation. He characterized the partnership as “a major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream,” signaling a departure from the platform’s niche, crypto-native origins.

The development follows Polymarket’s return to the U.S. market earlier this year after a regulatory hiatus. In 2022, the platform was effectively pushed offshore by federal authorities for continuing to allow U.S.-based traders despite a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Polymarket regained a domestic foothold by acquiring QCX, a lesser-known derivatives exchange, shortly after prosecutors closed an investigation into the company’s prior operations. The move also brought Donald Trump Jr. onto Polymarket’s advisory board.

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