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Markets

ICE Snaps Up Loyalty Program Provider Bridge2 to Boost Bakkt's Consumer Play

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.

Bakkt President Adam White

Markets

Options Growth Will Ignite Innovation in the Bitcoin Market – But Not in the Way You Think

Richard Rosenblum, co-founder of GSR, points out the lackluster growth in listed options hides the real action taking place in OTC hedges.

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Markets

Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 30, 2020

Markets Daily is back with news of the day and clips of Democratic Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang's recent crypto comments.

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Markets

Literally No One Is Trading Bakkt’s Bitcoin Options

Trading volumes in bitcoin options listed on the Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt platform have completely dried up, even while CME’s options product is seeing strong interest.

NADA: No one traded Bakkt's bitcoin options this past week. Credit: Shutterstock

Markets

Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset

Ikigai’s Travis Kling looks at BTC's correlation to gold and crude in response to Iran missile strikes, plus SEC priorities and Congressional intrigue.

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Policy

Former Bakkt CEO to Help Oversee CFTC in Congress

Newly appointed senator Kelly Loeffler is to join the committee that oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, raising concerns of a possible conflict of interest.

Kelly Loeffler image via CoinDesk archives

Markets

Bitcoin Futures Provider Bakkt Names Mike Blandina as New CEO, Adam White as President

Bakkt chief product officer Mike Blandina will take over as CEO following the departure of new Senator Kelly Loeffler.

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Markets

ErisX Takes on Bakkt With Launch of Physically Settled US Bitcoin Futures

ErisX plans to work with futures commission merchants and brokerages starting next year, allowing investors hoping to trade its physically settled bitcoin futures an alternative to Bakkt

ErisX CEO Thomas Chippas (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bakkt Goes Live With Options, Cash-Settled Futures Products

Bakkt’s new options and cash-settled bitcoin futures products have just gone live, joining its three-month-old physical futures contracts.

Bakkt President Adam White

Markets

Georgia Governor Appoints Bakkt CEO Loeffler as New US Senator

It is unclear who will helm Bakkt after CEO Kelly Loeffler joins the U.S. Senate on Jan. 1.

Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler image via CoinDesk archives