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According to an official announcement, Star, Founder and CEO of OKX, stated that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has completed its investment in OKX and will join the company’s Board of Directors. ICE owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and a global derivatives and clearing platform; this collaboration reflects a shared belief between both parties that digital asset technology will play a long-term role in future financial markets. Star noted that OKX plans to provide access for its global user base of over 120 million to ICE’s U.S. futures markets and NYSE’s tokenized stock market, exploring pathways to integrate traditional financial markets with digital asset infrastructure within a compliant regulatory framework. Additionally, Star emphasized that, as blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies drive structural transformation across financial markets, the two parties will collaborate on tokenized securities and the digitization of traditional assets to explore more efficient and transparent models for next-generation financial infrastructure.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has completed its investment in OKX and will join the company’s Board of Directors, signaling a strategic alignment between traditional financial markets and digital asset infrastructure. ICE owns the New York Stock Exchange and a global derivatives and clearing platform, underscoring a belief that digital asset technology will play a long-term role in future financial markets. OKX plans to provide its global user base of over 120 million with access to ICE’s U.S. futures markets and NYSE’s tokenized stock market while exploring pathways to integrate traditional finance with digital asset infrastructure within a regulated framework.

Leadership at OKX emphasized that the collaboration aims to connect digital asset markets with established exchanges, enabling broader institutional access to regulated futures and tokenized markets. The partnership seeks to bridge traditional financial assets and crypto infrastructure under compliant regulatory conditions, opening pathways for more efficient and transparent market models. As blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies drive structural transformation across financial markets, the two parties will explore tokenized securities and the digitization of traditional assets to advance more efficient and transparent models for next-generation financial infrastructure.