{"id":96907,"date":"2026-05-29T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=96907"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:48:09","slug":"intercontinental-exchange-owner-says-this-11-person-crypto-team-is-bigger-than-nasdaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=96907","title":{"rendered":"Intercontinental Exchange Owner Says This 11-Person Crypto Team Is Bigger Than Nasdaq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Intercontinental Exchange<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ICE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ICE\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ICE\">ICE<\/a>) CEO <strong>Jeffrey Sprecher<\/strong> called Hyperliquid \u201cbigger than Nasdaq\u201d at a Bernstein conference this week, sending <strong>HYPE<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/HYPE-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"HYPE\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">HYPE<\/a>) climbing nearly 10% on Friday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICE Has Already Met Hyperliquid Founders Multiple Times<\/h3>\n<p>Sprecher made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2026\/05\/29\/ice-ceo-calls-hyperliquid-bigger-than-nasdaq-says-he-s-met-its-founders\">comparison<\/a> on volume, not market cap. Hyperliquid holds over 70% of the decentralized perpetual futures market and clears billions in daily notional turnover, while Nasdaq Inc. carries a $50 billion market cap against HYPE\u2019s $15.1 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c11 people\u201d refers to Hyperliquid Labs, the core development team, with open-source contributors and validators running the underlying blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Hyperliquid that we\u2019re talking, if you haven\u2019t heard about it, it\u2019s bigger than Nasdaq, okay? It\u2019s 11 people. You look at it, you\u2019re like, wow, that\u2019s pretty something,\u201d Sprecher said, calling the founders \u201cvery, very smart people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sprecher noted ICE took notice partly because Hyperliquid has been trading oil derivatives on weekends &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52882027\/intercontinental-exchange-owner-says-this-11-person-crypto-team-is-bigger-than-nasdaq?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Intercontinental\" exchange owner says this crypto team is bigger than nasdaq>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) CEO Jeffrey Sprecher called Hyperliquid \u201cbigger than Nasdaq\u201d at a Bernstein conference this week, sending HYPE (CRYPTO: HYPE) climbing nearly 10% on Friday. ICE Has Already Met Hyperliquid Founders Multiple Times Sprecher made the comparison on volume, not market cap. Hyperliquid holds over 70% of the decentralized perpetual futures market and clears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-96907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}