Avalanche's ICE Partnership: Value to Token Holders or Just Market Sentiment?

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange, has been testing Avalanche for around a year as a platform to trade tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs 24/7.

However, following Helicon, the network's largest upgrade that went live on September 22, AVAX experienced an 8% drop.

The real question now is whether ICE's interest in Avalanche offers any real value to token holders, or if the network's advancements and the token's price movements are fundamentally separate.