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The partnership makes Intercontinental Exchange a global distributor of Polymarket data.Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, announced on Tuesday a strategic investment in Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market platform.ICE will invest up to $2 billion, valuing Polymarket at roughly $8 billion pre-investment, according to a press release. As part of the deal, ICE will become a global distributor of Polymarket’s data, providing institutional investors with access to insights on market sentiment. The two companies also plan to work together on tokenization projects in the future, the release noted. This comes at a time when…

NEW YORK — The Securities and Exchange Commission is still looking to formalize an “innovation exemption” for companies to build on digital assets and other innovative technologies in the U.S., potentially as soon as the end of the quarter, said agency Chair Paul Atkins.While acknowledging that the current government shutdown had “hamstrung” the SEC’s ability to make progress on rulemaking, Atkins said working on this exemption is still his priority for the end of the year or the first quarter of 2026, he said at a Futures and Derivatives Law Report event hosted by the law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman…

Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets:Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas.A7A5’s appearance at the recent Token2049 conference wasn’t in contravention of Singaporean law, despite being backed by a sanctioned Russian bank, highlighting the limits of the city-state’s sanctions regime, which applies only to licensed financial firms.A7A5’s ruble-based stablecoin is backed by Russia’s state-owned Promsvyazbank (PSB), an entity sanctioned by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as well as…