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Bakkt Touts New Payment Integration With Starbucks
16.3.2020
Users of the Starbucks iPhone app are now being presented with “Bakkt Cash” as a payment option
Bakkt Raises USD 300M from Microsoft's M12 and PayU Among Others
16.3.2020
Bakkt, a physically-settled Bitcoin futures trading platform, has completed a multi-million-dollar fundraising round, bringing the total raised capital to USD 482.5 million.
Bakkt has closed a Series B fundraising round, raising USD 300 million, with participation from investors, including some...
Bakkt Closes New $300M Funding Round to Unlock $1 Trillion in Digital Assets
16.3.2020
Bakkt has now totally raised over $480 million after closing a new $300 million financing round on March 13
Bakkt Raises $300M Series B From Microsoft, Pantera
16.3.2020
Bakkt raised $300 million from its parent firm ICE, as well as Microsoft's M12, Pantera and a number of other funds
Market Update: Cryptocurrency Market Cap Sheds $90B, Margin Calls Spike, Futures Slide
14.3.2020
Digital currency markets have been consolidating since Thursday’s massive price drop after more than $90 billion was erased from the cryptoconomy. Crypto markets saw some brief gains on Friday but prices have been meandering just above current support levels. At the moment, traders and crypto...
Bitcoin Options Saw Record Volume of $198M Amid Recent Price Drop
10.3.2020
Trading volume records in bitcoin’s options market were smashed on Monday as investors scrambled to hedge their positions amid the selloff
Record Breaking Interest – Observing the Predictive Power of Bitcoin Futures Over BTC Spot Prices
29.2.2020
Bitcoin futures providers have been seeing a lot of action during the last two weeks as cryptocurrency markets have been extremely volatile. Data shows there’s been significant open interest on both retail and institutional bitcoin derivatives exchanges and Skew research noted bitcoin options...
CME Bitcoin Futures Daily Trading Volume Hits 2020 Low – That’s a Bullish Sign
24.2.2020
Daily trading volume in bitcoin (BTC) futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) dropped to year-to-date lows on Friday
Bakkt to the Senate: How Loeffler Became One of Crypto’s Most Influential
16.2.2020
From Bakkt CEO to U.S. Senator for the state of Georgia, Kelly Loeffler is poised to become crypto’s highest-placed political proponent and is #3 on the #CointelegraphTop100
Five Crypto Relationships Worth Noting on Valentine’s Day
14.2.2020
Business partnerships, like romances, are fated to have their rocky moments. Facebook’s Libra project is no exception
Bitcoin Futures' Open Interest on Bakkt Up 50% in February + More News
14.2.2020
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Bitcoin Futures' Open Interest (OI), the number of open futures contracts and an indicator of amount of capital...
Most Active and Impactful Blockchain Companies from 2019 to 2020
10.2.2020
Which companies are last year’s most active in the blockchain arena? The ten most responsible for 2019’s immense industry maturation are many old hats, and some newer
Above $10K: CME Bitcoin Futures Hit 3.5-Month Highs
7.2.2020
Bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose to multi-month highs, breaking above $10,000 early Friday
Open Positions in Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures Jump to Record Highs
6.2.2020
While bitcoin hit fresh three-month highs on Wednesday, open interest in monthly bitcoin futures on the Intercontinental Exchange's (ICE) Bakkt platform jumped to record highs
Not Just Ebay, NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Pushes Bakkt to Retail With Latest Acquisition
6.2.2020
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, stunned many on Wall Street recently with a reported takeover bid for e-commerce marketplace Ebay. Now the group is aggressively trying to push its regulated bitcoin derivatives exchange Bakkt into the retail space with its latest...
ICE CEO: New Acquisition Opens Trillion-Dollar Market for Bakkt
6.2.2020
Bakkt's pending acquisition of Bridge2 Solutions, a loyalty program marketplace, will "expand Bakkt's presence across an asset class that today spans over $1 trillion in value," says its parent firm ICE's CEO Jeffrey Sprecher
ICE Announces Software Platform Acquisition for Upcoming Bakkt App
5.2.2020
Bakkt intends to acquire software platform Bridge2 Solutions for its consumer application
ICE Snaps Up Loyalty Program Provider Bridge2 to Boost Bakkt’s Consumer Play
5.2.2020
Intercontinental Exchange, Bakkt's parent firm, has acquired loyalty services provider Bridge2 Solutions to boost Bakkt's efforts to build a consumer-focused crypto payments app
Why It's Important for Bitcoin if Bakkt and NYSE Owner Acquires eBay
5.2.2020
The derivatives and equities trading company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange and Bakkt, reportedly made a takeover offer to e-commerce giant eBay, which doesn't seem to have borne fruit. Nonetheless, the Cryptoverse has been speculating what would...
2019's Top 10 Institutional Actors in Crypto
1.2.2020
When it was reported in April that Harvard University’s endowment was making its first crypto investment, the news was hailed as a win for the cryptocurrency/blockchain sector, which has struggled to attract institutional investors with deep pockets