IEX is an SEC-regulated national securities exchange operator and financial-technology company co-founded by Brad Katsuyama, Ronan Ryan, Rob Park, and John Schwall. IEX's Twitter Score is 17 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #57,829 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
IEX operates under the legal name IEX Group, Inc. and received SEC approval to register as a national securities exchange in June 2016. The company publishes research and commentary spanning equities, digital assets, and financial technology, and maintains a dedicated content section covering tokenization, Web3, token regulation, and cryptocurrency market structure. IEX is also developing IEX Options, an options exchange currently described as coming soon, with an intended launch date of October 2, 2026.
IEX has extended its reach into blockchain infrastructure through its IEX Cloud data platform. In July 2021, IEX Cloud joined Pyth Network to contribute real-time market data derived from IEX Exchange to a Pyth node, with that data distributed to blockchain applications via the public Solana blockchain. In April 2022, FTX US announced a strategic investment in IEX Group with stated plans to collaborate on digital-asset securities market structure; FTX subsequently entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and bankruptcy disclosure materials confirmed FTX debtors had acquired interests in IEX in March 2022.
IEX has attracted backing from a broad range of institutional and venture investors, including Spark Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, ICONIQ Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Capital Group, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Georgian, MassMutual Ventures, Franklin Templeton Investments, Brandes Investment Partners, and Norges Bank; OppenheimerFunds was a former backer. IEX has 18,135 followers as of September 2026 and has published 2,334 posts. The account has been mentioned by 80 accounts a total of 536 times.
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The accounts that follow IEX include 61 founders, 14 angel investors, 23 influencers and 7 VCs, among them SBF, Frank Chaparro, Matthew Graham, Hester Peirce, Brett Harrison and Keith A. Grossman.