Odaily Planet Daily News Bakkt appointed Akshay Naheta as co-CEO and established a strategic partnership with Naheta's payment startup Distributed Technologies Research (DTR). The move aims to integrate Bakkt's trading and brokerage platform with DTR's stablecoin-based payment infrastructure.
Through this integration, Bakkt plans to open up new sources of revenue in the field of crypto trading and cross-border payments, subject to regulatory approval. Naheta, a former SoftBank executive with investment experience in Nvidia and ARM, officially joined the Bakkt leadership team today and worked with current CEO Andy Main to promote the company's in-depth layout of blockchain payments. Naheta will also join the Bakkt board of directors.
Bakkt said that DTR's infrastructure helps reduce costs and complexity through APIs, blockchain technology and proprietary routing systems, thereby improving the efficiency of payment systems. This move will bring more profit opportunities to Bakkt.
However, Bakkt's stock price recently fell by more than 18% after it revealed that Bank of America (BAC) and crypto trading app Webull Pay would not renew their partnership agreement. (Coindesk)