Polymarket co-founder Shane Coplan has hinted at the upcoming issuance of the POLY token. The entrepreneur published the corresponding post on social network X (formerly Twitter).
$BTC$ETH$BNB$SOL$POLY ? https://t.co/HmMobU6nBh
– Shayne Coplan ? (@shayne_coplan) October 8, 2025
The announcement coincided with a major investment deal. As part of it, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, announced its intention to invest $2 billion in Polymarket.
Once the round is complete, the valuation of the prediction platform could reach $9 billion, making it one of the most expensive decentralized marketplace projects.
Coplan, who was recently named the youngest “self-made” billionaire by Bloomberg, hinted that POLY could take a position in the top 5 global tokens by capitalization. In his publication, he reposted charts showing POLY allegedly displacing XRP from fourth place.
This is not the first time Polymarket has fueled rumors about the possible release of its own coin. Earlier, the official account of the project posted a message about “future falls” of the market after Donald Trump’s victory in the elections of 2024. Many users took this as a hint of a possible token airdrop for platform members.
Note that on October 7, 2025, Coplan also disclosed two unannounced rounds in the past two years. These include a $150 million investment with Founders Fund as the leader at a $1.2 billion valuation.
With the new investment from ICE and Polymarket’s rapid growth, analysts speculate that the token launch could be part of a strategy to decentralize the platform’s management.
Since its founding in 2020, Polymarket has processed nearly $19 billion in trading volume and has become the leading prediction platform in the crypto sphere. The project competes with traditional derivatives markets in terms of user activity and depth of liquidity, experts say.