According to @KobeissiLetter, President Trump said that building a 'New York Stock Exchange' in Dallas is an unbelievably bad thing for New York in a video posted on January 19, 2026 (source: The Kobeissi Letter tweet, Jan 19, 2026). The tweet provides no confirmation from the New York Stock Exchange or Intercontinental Exchange regarding any Dallas build-out, only the quoted remark (source: The Kobeissi Letter tweet, Jan 19, 2026). Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) owns the New York Stock Exchange, making ICE the listed equity most directly tied to any NYSE infrastructure decisions (source: Intercontinental Exchange company information). NYSE’s equity matching engines and colocation services are centered in Mahwah, New Jersey, highlighting the operational importance of any location discussion for trading latency and colocation-related revenues (source: NYSE technology and colocation documentation and fee schedules). For crypto, Texas hosts large-scale BTC mining operations such as Riot Platforms’ Rockdale, Texas facility, linking Texas infrastructure and policy discourse to crypto-industry sentiment (source: Riot Platforms investor materials).

According to @LexSokolin, Intercontinental Exchange allocated 2 billion dollars on Polymarket, marking an inflection point tied to the financialization of information and the convergence of trading, media, and AI. Source: @LexSokolin on X, Oct 10, 2025. For traders, the author frames this as a structural shift in how information is priced and traded via prediction markets, with full analysis available in this week’s Fintech Blueprint. Source: @LexSokolin on X, Oct 10, 2025.

According to the source, Bloomberg reported that Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan became the youngest self-made billionaire following a deal with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange (source: Bloomberg; source: Intercontinental Exchange). Polymarket operates an on-chain prediction market that settles via crypto, directly linking this development to digital-asset market infrastructure and trading activity (source: Polymarket). For traders, the alignment of a major exchange operator with a crypto-native prediction platform is a market-structure milestone closely tracked across equities and digital assets during headline-driven flows (source: Bloomberg; source: Intercontinental Exchange).

According to the source, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) invested $2 billion in Polymarket, implying a $9 billion valuation. source: public X post dated Oct 8, 2025 ICE is the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, underscoring the TradFi link to prediction markets. source: Intercontinental Exchange corporate profile The source also reports that founder Shayne Coplan has become a self-made billionaire as a result of this valuation. source: public X post dated Oct 8, 2025 For traders, there is no direct Polymarket token; exposure tends to come from on-chain volumes and stablecoin flows tied to the platform’s markets, which are settled in USDC. source: Polymarket Help Center