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Stock market group bets on crypto company

“You can easily test different products on private investors, but if you want to build something for large institutions, you have to take into account their needs and experiences from other markets”

Bitcoin isn’t really dead, on the contrary…

Traditional financial institutions are moving towards bitcoin, and cryptocurrency markets are steadily evolving.

Bakkt is doing inverse regulatory arbitrage and won’t be fully backed

By offering daily futures, Bakkt has managed to get under CFTC regulation while offering a product mimicking the unregulated spot market. By letting the contracts be margined, the contracts on Bakkt will not be fully backed before settlement. The combination of regulation and leverage is likely to attract new institutional money.