Prediction markets are quietly stepping into the institutional spotlight. Jeffrey Sprecher, who runs Intercontinental Exchange, just dropped an interesting number: over 50% of their institutional clients want access to data flowing from their fresh Polymarket partnership.

Think about what that signals. ICE isn't some crypto-native startup—it operates the New York Stock Exchange. When that kind of player starts piping prediction-market intel to Wall Street desks, and most of those desks are raising their hands saying "yeah, we'll take that," it tells you something about where this space is heading.

Polymarket's been building real volume and credibility, especially around election forecasting and macro events. Now it's getting plugged into traditional finance infrastructure. The institutional appetite isn't just curiosity—these clients see actionable signal in crowd-sourced probability data that you can't easily extract from conventional sources.