In today’s operational environment, adaptability is more than a competitive advantage. This can make the difference between survival and insolvency.
Bakkt Holdings, Inc.a platform of digital active ingredients formerly diverse, is alive This adage in real time. The company emerges from a recalibration period, having lost crucial banking partners this year, with a new objective, a new management team and a new vision of national digital assets.
This vision? Become a supplier of pure game infrastructure for programmable money and aging trade.
“The evolution of Bakkt in a focused cryptographic infrastructure company accelerates with a remarkable moment”, ” Andy MainCO-PDG and president of Bakkt, told investors on Monday (May 12) First quarter 2025 Appeal of profit. “The regulatory tail winds we know have created unprecedented opportunities.”
Supported by Intercontinental exchange (Ice), the parent of New York Stock ExchangeBakkt moves away from his first approach with several components of cryptography and loyalty services. He repositioned himself as a leaner and more agile company focuses squarely on global digital payments and the trading of regulated cryptography.
By managers and corporate equipment, in the first quarter of 2025, Bakkt concluded a cooperation agreement with Search for distributed technologies (DTR), aimed at integrating the artificial intelligence of DTR (AI) and the stablecoin payment infrastructure in the regulated trading platform of Bakkt.
CO-PDG Akshay Naheta underlined the transformer potential of this partnership.
“By integrating DTR’s advanced payment infrastructure and AI’s capacities with the American regulated trading platform of Bakkt, we will create a complete ecosystem designed for the movement without friction between cryptographic trading, solutions fueled by AI and world digital payments,” said Naheta.
The collaboration should lead to a trade agreement of the third third 2025, introducing new products such as a merchant payment widget and a plug-in propelled by AI for the world money movement.
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Agent and pivotal trade
Central of the transformation proposed by Bakkt is its deepening alliance with DTR. Although still a contingent to a final trade agreement, the partnership signals a transition to agent trade: a potentially new border where AI agents launch programmable payments beyond real-time borders.
The cooperation agreement with DTR gives early access to Bakkt to the DTR infrastructure. This includes APIs for Payments focused on AI, Fiat bridges with appearance and exchange regulations in more than 90 countries. The technological battery should comply with SOC 2 and entirely integrated into the existing Bakkt platform.
The pivot comes after a difficult period for Bakkt. In 2024, the company began a strategic retirement for non -essential offers. A final agreement has already been signed to give in police custody, and other talks are underway to sell its loyalty division. These movements are designed for Concentrate resources on cryptographic infrastructure and digital payment solutions.
Despite its momentum, Bakkt faces material opposite winds. Income, although reinforced by crypto trading, remain volatile. Until the DTR agreement is successful and successfully integrated, the roadmap for the new product of the company is always theoretical.
Operationally, the change From a diversified service model to a specialized infrastructure game requires flawless execution. Bakkt will have to attract global partners, manage compliance through the courts and deliver a flawless UX – while maintaining a tight cost discipline.
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The rise in the range – and the bet of Bakkt
Stablecoins, formerly considered as niche crypto tools, are now at the heart of Bakkt’s strategy. Stablecoins currently represent only 3% of the volume of cross -border payments, but the leaders of Bakkt have cited forecasts which suggest a jump to 20%, or 64 billions of dollars, by 2032.
Bakkt is positioned as a conduit for these flows. With the DTR ions network, the company plans to offer an FX conversion on a chain, cross -border colonies and police custody in accordance with regulations in more than 90 countries. Future products include “Bakkt Checkout”, that will allow Merchants accept Stablecoin payments and receive an instant fiat conversion and “Bakkt Agent”, a plugin based on AI for the world money movement by the cat or the voice.
“We allow financial actions focused on the intention – payments activated by the voice in the global colonies without seam. No portfolios to download, no awkward integration,” said Ankit Khemka, new product director of Bakkt and former Revolt. “Consider it as programmable money, with AI doing the bulk of work.”
For the last quarter, Bakkt recorded net revenues of $ 12.6 million in the first quarter, down 25.9% in annual shift, due departing from key partners as Webull and the drop in loyalty program transactions.
And while the notional crypto trading volume fell 39.1% quarter as a result of post-electoral cooling, it always increased by 16.6% in annual sliding to $ 1.06 billion. The company’s crypto accounts continue to climb, reaching 6.8 million, while the custody assets increased by 52.5% in annual sliding to $ 1.87 billion – reflecting broader growth in the cryptographic market.
There was no part of the questions and answers of the profit call, and the course of the Bakkt action remained relatively stable In Trading after opening hours.
