Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has invested $2 billion in the prediction market platform Polymarket. This investment values the company at $8 billion and follows Polymarket’s recent efforts to re-establish a regulated presence in the United States. The deal signals increasing institutional interest in decentralized betting markets as legitimate financial and forecasting tools.
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