Andrew Cuomo to Co-Lead OKX and Intercontinental Exchange Digital Assets Venture

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, said former New York governor Andrew Cuomo will co-chair a joint venture focused on digital assets. The project aims to build next-generation infrastructure for tokenized and digitally native financial products and would let OKX users access ICE futures and NYSE tokenized equities markets, subject to regulatory approval.

Cuomo, who lost his 2025 bid for New York City mayor, has been largely out of the public eye since the campaign. He had said he intended to make New York City the "global capital for cryptocurrency" and received the endorsement of the crypto-aligned Innovate NY political action committee, but lost to Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, who won more than 50% of the vote.

Cuomo began working with OKX in 2023. The venture follows a March partnership in which ICE invested an undisclosed amount in OKX at a $25 billion valuation. ICE has also pledged $2 billion to the prediction markets platform Polymarket.

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