Infrastructure · September 23, 2019

Bakkt launches physically-settled BTC futures

Price at event

$9,900

Today

$73,401

Since then

×7.4

ICE-owned, NYSE-adjacent. First major institutional venue settling in real BTC, not USD. Pre-figures the institutional rails of the 2024 ETF era.

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