ICE Teams Up with tZERO to Build Tokenized Securities Infrastructure
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has partnered with tZERO to develop infrastructure for a planned NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities platform. The deal covers digital transfer-agent and broker-dealer systems designed to support on-chain settlement.
tZERO will help shape transfer-agent and broker-dealer infrastructure for ICE's Digital Trading Platform, which is being developed under ICE's NYSE affiliation to support tokenized securities trading and settlement. tZERO's patent holdings span 23 patent families and 103 individual patents, covering compliance-aware transfer logic and upgradeable smart contract frameworks.
The partnership extends tZERO's regulated infrastructure experience toward public equities trading and marks a significant step forward for the firm's infrastructure-as-a-service business. ICE will license tZERO's blockchain patent portfolio across the Digital Trading Platform and other applications, with terms of the investment not disclosed in the announcement.