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Bakkt secures $300M Series B funding led by ICE and six others

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Intercontinental Exchange’s digital assets platform Bakkt announced raising an additional $300 million of capital on March 16th. The investors included its parent company ICE along with investors such as Microsoft’s M12, PayU, Boston Consulting Group, Goldfinch Partners, CMT Digital, and Pantera Capital.

Additionally, the digital asset platform has also updated its website with new details about the Bakkt app which is slated to launch this summer.

The announcement was made by the CEO of Bakkt, Mike Blandina who stated, that he was “excited” for the platform’s potential to unlock nearly $1 trillion of digital assets when the Bakkt app launches this summer.

“With the completion of our Series B financing and the recent acquisition of Bridge2 Solutions, Bakkt is now a team of 350 employees and powers the loyalty redemption programs for 7 of the top 10 financial institutions and over 4,500 loyalty and incentive programs including two of the largest US airlines.”

On the derivatives side, the open interest for BTC futures has been on a decline after an all-time high of $18 million on 17th February. According to the latest Skew charts, Bakkt’s cash-settled BTC futures volumes have been performing better than the physically settled volumes.

On 13th March, OI on the platform for BTC futures stood at $4.8 million, the volumes for physically-settled BTC futures stood at $$7.5 million while for cash-settled, the volume was registered to be $3.8 million.

Source: Skew | Bakkt | BTC Futures Volume

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Chayanika is a full-time cryptocurrency journalist at AMBCrypto. A graduate in Political Science and Journalism, her writing is centered around regulation and policy-making regarding the cryptocurrency sector.
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