ICE Bets $2B on Polymarket: A Wildean Whirl of Wagers

In the grand salon of finance, Intercontinental Exchange-master of the ticker-tape masque-prepares to pour two billion dollars upon Polymarket, that crypto oracle of probabilities. The sum, if it lands, may crown Polymarket with a valuation wandering between eight and ten billion, a flourish as daring as it is decorative.

Such liquidity, dear reader, would ease Polymarket’s return to the United States after the regulatory scrimmage, a little dance with the regulators that ends with the orchestra still in tune. The move speaks, with the courteous gravity of a duchess, of growing institutional affection and a renewed appetite for decentralized prediction markets.

One observes the theatre: capital arriving with the punctuality of a well-bred footman, promising not just growth but a certain, delicious inevitability. Polymarket, once content to prance on the margins, now takes a seat at the center of the stage. As Wilde might have suggested, to forecast is to flirt with fortune-and fortune can be very well-dressed indeed. 💸😏🤹‍♀️

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2025-10-07 14:34