Is ICE’s Blockchain Post‑Trade Push Quietly Rewriting Its Technology Edge in Market Infrastructure?

• Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, recently announced a blockchain-based platform aimed at modernizing post-trade functions such as settlement, reconciliation, and collateral management, including onchain delivery-versus-payment and potential stablecoin-based funding subject to regulatory approval.
• This move highlights how a major exchange operator is seeking to embed blockchain into traditional market plumbing to improve efficiency, reduce counterparty risk, and support round-the-clock trading.
• Next, we’ll examine how ICE’s push into blockchain-powered post-trade infrastructure could reshape its investment narrative around technology-driven market efficiency.

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Intercontinental Exchange Investment Narrative Recap

To own ICE, you need to believe in its role as a critical, technology-focused backbone for global markets, spanning exchanges, data, and mortgage technology. The new blockchain-based post-trade platform fits that efficiency-driven story, but its impact on near term results and on key risks like rising technology spend and competitive pressure from new trading and settlement models is uncertain for now, so I do not see it as a material short term catalyst yet.

Among recent developments, ICE’s launch of ICE-branded cryptocurrency futures tied to CoinDesk indices feels most connected to this blockchain push, as both extend ICE’s market infrastructure into digital assets and onchain workflows. Together, these moves may support the longer term catalyst of deeper electronic trading and data integration across asset classes, but they also come with the existing risk that higher technology and infrastructure investment could weigh on returns if adoption is slower or competition intensifies.

Yet behind the appeal of 24/7 blockchain settlement, investors should be aware that rising tech spend and new digital rivals could…

Read the full narrative on Intercontinental Exchange (it’s free!)

Intercontinental Exchange’s narrative projects $11.4 billion revenue and $4.1 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 5.7% yearly revenue growth and a $1.1 billion earnings increase from $3.0 billion today.

Uncover how Intercontinental Exchange’s forecasts yield a $196.00 fair value, a 20% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Five members of the Simply Wall St Community see ICE’s fair value between US$131.66 and US$196, underlining how far opinions can spread. Set that against ICE’s heavy technology investment and competitive pressures, and it becomes even more important to compare multiple views on how those factors could shape future performance.

Explore 5 other fair value estimates on Intercontinental Exchange – why the stock might be worth 19% less than the current price!

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