Bakkt plans to launch a consumer-facing app to help retail customers transact with cryptocurrencies, the company announced Monday. In a blog post, Bakkt chief product officer Mike Blandina wrote that the company was working on developing an app to let…
The Intercontinental Exchange’s highly anticipated bitcoin futures contract mustered just $5 million of total trading – and its daily product traded fewer than five contracts across its first week. According to the exchange’s Bakkt division, set up last year by…
Well, that was a bit anticlimactic. After two years of work and more than a year of hype and regulatory delays, the Bakkt bitcoin futures market had a lackluster first day of trading. When the session closed at 22:00 UTC…
Bakkt is finally here. After two delays and 13 months of questions, the Intercontinental Exchange-backed bitcoin warehouse and futures contract facilitator is launching Monday, opening the door for institutional investors to take positions on the cryptocurrency in a federally regulated venue. Trading is set to…