Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

Atlanta-based operator of twelve regulated exchanges and six clearing houses and owner of the New York Stock Exchange, whose NYSE said on 19 January 2026 it was developing a tokenized securities platform.

Kind Exchange

Jurisdiction United States

Founded 2000

Stories filed 4

The profile

Atlanta-based operator of twelve regulated exchanges and six clearing houses, founded in May 2000 by Jeffrey Sprecher to trade over-the-counter natural gas and owner of the New York Stock Exchange since 2013, with large data and mortgage technology businesses built through acquisitions including Interactive Data, Ellie Mae and Black Knight. On 19 January 2026 NYSE said it was developing a tokenized securities platform for continuous trading of US listed equities and exchange-traded funds, settling onchain against stablecoins and tokenized cash while shareholders keep dividend and governance rights, with BNY and Citigroup supporting tokenized deposits across ICE's clearing houses. Separately the group has committed about $1.64bn to Polymarket, $1bn in October 2025 and a further $600m announced on 27 March 2026. That is an equity position in a prediction market venue rather than a data licence, and ICE says it is not expected to move its own financial results.

Products and services

New York Stock Exchange: US listing and cash equities venue acquired in 2013, whose president announced the tokenized securities platform in January 2026.
NYSE tokenized securities platform: Planned venue for round-the-clock trading of tokenized shares fungible with conventional securities, settling against stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
ICE clearing houses: Six central counterparties across futures, credit and energy that would accept tokenized deposits from BNY and Citigroup as margin funding.

Coverage

Developments in which Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is a named party, newest first.

Stablecoins

Circle minted ten billion tokens and called them a digital commodity, a day after the Senate declined to define one

Arc goes live with gas payable in USDC and no native token required, and Circle has minted the full 10bn supply of one anyway.

today Circle 3 reports

Tokenized capital markets

The NYSE lines up a second transfer agent for tokenized shares and buys into it

ICE will invest in tZERO, take a licence to its 103 blockchain patents and consult it on the standards for digital transfer agents on the planned Digital Trading Platform, the day before the SEC proposed letting a transfer agent keep the master file…

today tZERO 2 reports

Equities United States

Clearing & settlement

BlackRock, DTCC, ICE and Visa join Circle's Arc as founding validators

Eleven institutions will secure the stablecoin issuer's own layer-one network before its 16 September mainnet, and the DTCC will make Arc a supported chain for tokenizing the assets it custodies from the second half of 2027.

today Circle 2 reports

Stablecoins Tokenized funds United States Global

Prediction markets

Intercontinental Exchange invests a further $600m in Polymarket as CFTC clears intermediated US access

Intercontinental Exchange announced an additional $600m investment in Polymarket on 27 March 2026, adding to its earlier stake in the prediction-market platform.

27 Mar 2026 Intercontinental Exchange investor relations 3 reports

Other asset classes United States

On the record

16 Sep 2026

Circle launches Arc mainnet and mints the full 10bn supply of ARC

Arc goes live as a layer one whose fees are payable in USDC, with a founding validator cohort of eleven institutions alongside Circle including DTCC, ICE, Mastercard and Visa. Circle says it completed the genesis mint of 10 billion ARC in the United States and describes the token as a digital commodity, adding that the mint is not a commitment to launch it.

Product launch United States Global Stablecoins Other asset classes Circle: Circle Launches Arc Mainnet, an Economic Operating System for the Internet ↗

31 Aug 2026

ICE names tZERO design partner for the NYSE tokenized platform and invests in it

tZERO and Intercontinental Exchange announced on 31 August 2026 a memorandum of understanding making tZERO a design partner for digital transfer agent and broker-dealer infrastructure on the planned NYSE-affiliated Digital Trading Platform, with ICE investing in tZERO's latest round and taking a licence to its 23 patent families and 103 patents.

Institutional pilot United States Equities tZERO: tZERO and ICE Agree to Collaborate on Infrastructure for Public Tokenized Securities Markets ↗

5 Aug 2026

Eleven institutions join Circle as founding validators of Arc

BlackRock, the DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Corporation and Visa will run validators on Arc, Circle's layer-one network, ahead of a public mainnet set for 16 September 2026. BlackRock is expected to deploy BUIDL on it, and the DTCC to make it a supported blockchain for its tokenization service in the second half of 2027.

Institutional pilot United States Stablecoins Circle: Circle Announces Founding Validator Cohort and Major Integrations for Arc Ahead of September 16 Mainnet Launch ↗

7 Oct 2025

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to invest up to $2bn in Polymarket

Intercontinental Exchange agreed to invest up to $2bn in cash in Polymarket at a pre-investment valuation of about $8bn, and to distribute the prediction market's event data to institutional customers. The two companies said they also planned to work together on tokenisation.

Market United States Intercontinental Exchange: ICE Announces Strategic Investment in Polymarket ↗

Official

www.ice.com ↗

Sources

ICE: The New York Stock Exchange develops tokenized securities platform ir.theice.com · 25 Jul 2026
ICE: Announces new $600 million investment in Polymarket ir.theice.com · 25 Jul 2026
ICE: About ice.com · 25 Jul 2026
Wikipedia: Intercontinental Exchange en.wikipedia.org · 25 Jul 2026