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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.
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.
Developments in which Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is a named party, newest first.
Intercontinental Exchange will run a separate, regulated market for Trade[XYZ]'s round-the-clock contracts on the Hyperliquid blockchain and take a stake in the firm. Nothing can open until regulators approve it.
Each token is backed by a real share and carries its dividends, but buyers are not on the company's share register. Trading on venues planned by the New York Stock Exchange and OKXICE needs approvals not yet given.
The joint venture's notice under the SEC's tokenized stock exemption describes permissioned Uniswap pools on XLayer, administrator keys that can upgrade the contracts without a timelock, and an objection already lodged by Cerebras, a company that is…
Arc goes live with gas payable in USDC and no native token required, and Circle has minted the full 10bn supply of one anyway.
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…
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.
Intercontinental Exchange announced an additional $600m investment in Polymarket on 27 March 2026, adding to its earlier stake in the prediction-market platform.
Intercontinental Exchange signed a definitive agreement to become the exclusive operator of a new, separate, regulated US retail market and clearing structure for Trade[XYZ]'s perpetual futures, built on Hyperliquid and subject to regulatory approvals, and took an undisclosed minority stake in Trade[XYZ].
The OKX and ICE joint venture describes permissioned Uniswap v4 pools for 63 tokenized stock symbols paired with USDC, USDG or USDT, with no clearing agency and an unnamed tokenizer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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