In a not desperately surprising, but unlikely to please any of the suckers who bought the “‘crypto’ is against The Man in some way” idea, move; coinbase picked up ICE as a customer for their blockchain analytics service(all supported currencies licensed).
I’d be interested to know what use cases they’ve taken an interest in. Some amount of purely recreational mission creep is certainly not off the table; but I’d assume that the stated objectives at least align with their jurisdiction in some way.
