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The concert venue at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada has long been known as the Zappos Theater. The name, of course, stems from the famous online shoe company in which you can purchase any pair of shoes via the internet and have it delivered to your doorstep. Planet Hollywood and Bakkt Are Now Working Together Now, it appears the Planet Hollywood theater is going to have a new name, one that centers around a popular digital currency platform. The theater will be...

More and more customers of traditional banks and financial institutions are seeking ways to retain their monetary freedom and find new methods of investing. Crypto’s popularity is growing steadily every day, and there are now several banks seeking to provide their clients with ways of garnering crypto and adding digital assets to their portfolios. The latest bank to join this list is Valliance, which has chosen Bakkt as the official institutional platform that will grant...

Manasquan Bank in New Jersey has chosen Bakkt Holdings, Inc. to be its partner platform in offering customers digital currency services. Manasquan Bank and Bakkt… The Perfect Pair? Manasquan Bank is a community-based mutual bank that manages nearly $3 billion in assets. The bank’s retail clients will now be able to sell, buy, and hold digital currencies through the firm’s new services, which are being initiated through Bakkt, a crypto custody enterprise designed...

Bakkt Holdings, LLC – a crypto investment platform designed for institutions – has partnered with Quiznos, a popular sandwich shop, to allow customers to pay for food and drink items with crypto. Bakkt and Quiznos Are Teaming Up to Boost Crypto Purchases Bitcoin and many of its digital counterparts were initially designed to serve as payment tools. They were built so that users could push fiat, credit cards, and checks to the side, thereby garnering more financial...

Digital rewards systems are not necessarily new, but they’re far from being the “norm,” and let’s face it. They can be rather hard to keep track of considering how many separate platforms exist. Institutional cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt is looking to change all that.Bakkt Is Back and Looking to Revolutionize Digital RewardsBakkt first came to “prominence” in late 2019. Following a whole year of advertising, the trading platform experienced several delays in its release and was...

It looks like Bakkt is experiencing a sudden surge in business.Bakkt Is Pulling a Few Unexpected PunchesRecently, it was reported that the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICO) was doing rather poorly as of late, having traded zero bitcoin options since mid-June. Now, more than 30 days later, that still hasn’t changed.However, the platform has witnessed a surge in bitcoin futures trading. Just last Monday alone, Coin Market Cap...

There are several conflicting reports in the crypto world as of late. Despite the idea that bitcoin is surging like mad and is on the verge of once again striking the $11,000 range, it looks like things are very up and down otherwise for both miners and institutions.The Bitcoin Market Is Straddled with Ups and DownsRecently, Live Bitcoin News reported that Bit Farms, a cryptocurrency mining firm, is straddled with heavy debt and is struggling to repay the $20 million+ it owes by the time 2021...

Is it safe to say that Bakkt has been a total failure?Bakkt Really Hasn’t Amounted to MuchIt has been roughly one year since the institutional crypto trading platform came about, and one honestly wonders what it’s contributed to the space, especially when examining the latest trading figures the platform has been experiencing. For more than a month, bitcoin options have not been traded via the platform, and since June 15 of this year, the numbers for Bakkt have been stuck at a big fat zero.To...

The CME Group in Chicago, Illinois, is proving to be one of the biggest and most influential establishments in the entire crypto community.The CME Group Is Heading for the TopThe company has gone on to break all kinds of records with its latest bitcoin futures options, which became available in late January of this year. The firm has already managed to outdo the likes of Bakkt, which arguably had greater publicity going into the bitcoin futures market and had more of a leadup before its doors...

It looks like the popularity of bitcoin futures has taken a turn for the worse.Bitcoin Futures Trading Reaches New LowsCME Group in Chicago, Illinois reports that only three bitcoin futures were traded last Tuesday. Approximately 80 bitcoin units were involved in the contracts, totaling approximately $80,000 at the time of the trades. This, according to CME Group, establishes a new low for the company, beating the previous record of $125,000 BTC posted in late January.While CME still boasts...