OKX-ICE Launch Oil Perps to 120M Users, China Halts Brokers, Polymarket Hit for $700K
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has partnered with OKX to bring perpetual oil futures contracts to the cryptocurrency platform‘s roughly 120 million retail traders. The new perpetual products will draw on ICE’s Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark pricing, marking another bridge between traditional commodity markets and digital asset venues. The contracts will roll out in jurisdictions where OKX already holds licenses to offer perpetual derivatives. ICE holds an equity stake in OKX and the two firms previously signed a March agreement to develop blockchain infrastructure enabling tokenized securities trading on NYSE and crypto futures access for ICE clients. Prediction market platform Polymarket confirmed Friday that an internal rewards wallet was drained in what appears to be a private key compromise, with on-chain analytics estimating losses of approximately $700,000. The affected wallet handled only internal top-up operations and did not touch user funds, smart contracts, or market resolution mechanisms, according to the platform‘s development team. On-chain investigators traced the stolen proceeds across sixteen destination addresses, with funds subsequently routed through centralized exchanges and other obfuscation services. Polymarket’s core infrastructure on the Polygon network remains operational, though the incident underscores ongoing operational security challenges