Książęca 4 in the Śródmieście District of Warsaw in the Exchange Center Building (Polish: Centrum Giełdowe) opened in 2000.

On 17 December 2013, the WSE also joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative.

[6] In the Middle Ages other Polish towns, most of them members of the Hanseatic League, were the leading economic centers of Poland.

They brought the system of organized exchange trading in securities, mostly bills and currencies, to Poland.

The main centers of securities tradings were at the lower Vistula, in the 14th century occupied by the Teutonic Knights.

The first mercantile exchanges emerged in Gdańsk (1379), Toruń (1385), Malbork (14th century), Kraków (1405), Poznań (1429), Zamość (1590), Królewiec (1613) and Elbląg (1744).

Early mercantile trade in securities emerged in Warsaw in the 15th and 16th century and was based on privileges by the Masovian Dukes and later Polish Kings.

The original privileges are lost, but they have been mentioned and affirmed by King John II Casimir in 1658.

In 1643 Adam Zarzebski, the chief architect of King Władysław IV, mentioned a stone building on the Old Market Square as the seat of the Exchange, probably a part of the Old Town Hall.

The first public security to be traded on the Warsaw Mercantile Exchange was the debentures of Towarzystwo Kredytowe Ziemskie issued in 1826.

Central Europe was subject to a big bull market after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, followed by a harsh crash starting at the Vienna Stock Exchange in the later 1870s.

Much needed experience and financial aid was provided by France (especially the Société des Bourses Françaises).

[15] On 29 September 2017, the index provider FTSE Russell has announced the results of the annual classification of markets.

[16][17] In 2019, the Warsaw Stock Exchange announced plans to launch a private market based on a blockchain.

The platform is supposed to connect companies seeking capital with investors on the private market thanks to the technology used as the foundation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies".

[21] The following instruments are traded on the WSE: shares, bonds, subscription rights, allotments, and derivatives such as futures, options, and index participation units.

Total value of trade in equities on the Main Market was PLN 30.3 billion There are fifteen indices on the WSE.