@jwat_5@jkb545 Exactly! I feel bad for them if they are getting delisted, but their entire business could fail and it wouldn't effect Bakkt much long term.
This is just one small part of the company for Bakkt. However, I do wish all the Japan shareholders the best!
The interface for money is changing.
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US just quietly gave banks the green light to hold tokenized securities and this is a BIG.
The Fed, OCC and FDIC just released a joint statement. Three of America's most powerful financial regulators speaking with one voice.
The message was simple.
Tokenized securities get the same capital treatment as traditional securities. Same rules. Same collateral recognition. Same risk weighting. Blockchain or no blockchain makes no difference.
This is bigger than most people realize.
Banks were previously sitting on the sidelines waiting for regulatory clarity on crypto assets. That excuse just disappeared.
A tokenized Treasury bond is now treated exactly like a regular Treasury bond on a bank's balance sheet.
A tokenized stock is treated exactly like a regular stock. Permissioned blockchain or public blockchain. Doesn't matter. Same treatment.
What this means in plain English.
Every major US bank can now hold, trade and use tokenized assets as collateral without any regulatory penalty.
Trillions of dollars in traditional assets are about to find a new home on blockchain.
The Wall Street just got permission to move into Crypto on a much bigger scale.
Most people don't understand how big the last 48 hours have been for crypto.
• The Federal Reserve just gave Kraken access to its core payment rails - the same system used by JPMorgan and Goldman.
• The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange just invested in OKX and joined its board.
The most powerful financial infrastructure in the world is no longer attacking crypto.
It’s integrating it.
For years Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin a “fraud.”
For years Larry Fink dismissed crypto entirely.
But they were loading up at $3K–$20K.
Fast forward a few years and Bitcoin ripped to ~$126K.
Now apply that to the whole industry, especially utility Alts that will benefit from regulatory Clarity.
This is the part where people will say "I could have bought Amazon at..." - only this time it's Crypto.
Position accordingly. HODL.
@crynetio@grok: please clarify “Due to recent share offerings and Bakkt's acquisition of Distributed Technologies Research (DTR) in January 2026, ICE's beneficial ownership of Bakkt Class A common stock has been reported at approximately 27%”. THe 68% number is outdated?
🚨 NYSE Parent Acquires Stake in Major Crypto Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has purchased an equity stake in the regulated digital asset platform Bakkt. The investment was disclosed in a recent SEC filing.
According to Decrypt, ICE's stake in Bakkt is now approximately 68%. The move follows ICE's initial majority acquisition of Bakkt in 2018.
Mumbai and Bangalore outsourcing firms are scaling like I've never seen
Infosys added 47,000 engineers in the last 9 months. TCS hiring 2,100 per week. Wipro opened 8 new delivery centers since January.
American companies discovered something: Senior engineer in Austin making $180k can be replaced by two L4s in Hyderabad making $18k each plus AI tooling
The quality gap closed overnight. Indian teams with Cursor and Claude are shipping features indistinguishable from SF teams at 85% cost savings
Accenture's Bangalore office went from 12,000 to 31,000 headcount while their US operations dropped 6,200 people
The arbitrage is insane. American mid-level making $140k replaced by Indian senior making $28k who's more productive because they actually use the AI tools instead of complaining about them
Cognizant told their US clients: "Same deliverables, same timelines, 70% cost reduction" and enterprise buyers said yes to everything
One Fortune 500 moved their entire platform engineering team offshore in October. 23 American engineers averaging $165k replaced by 31 Indian engineers averaging $24k
The Indian teams are hungrier. They're learning the AI tools faster. They're not bitter about "being replaced by robots" - they're using the robots to replace American engineers
HCL hired 15,000 people in Q3 alone specifically for "AI-augmented development" contracts
American engineers spent two years debating whether Copilot would make them obsolete
Indian engineers spent two years mastering Copilot to make American engineers obsolete
Real estate agents are about to become extinct — not in 10 years, not in 5, in 12–18 months.
1.5 MILLION licensed agents in the U.S. and 70% didn't close a SINGLE transaction in 2024.
They were already useless before AI showed up.
Now it's over.
AI can scan hundreds of databases instantly, match buyers through natural language, draft contracts, and guide negotiations — better, faster, cheaper.
Stanford confirmed a 13% employment drop in the most AI-exposed roles.
Morgan Stanley projects $34 BILLION in efficiency gains coming for this industry — you don't capture $34B in "efficiency" without gutting the workforce.
One firm already cut staff 15% with AI and reported HIGHER customer satisfaction.
AI is projected to eliminate 1/3 to 1/2 of all agent positions — and that estimate was made BEFORE agentic AI went mainstream.
Zillow. Redfin. Opendoor.
AI-only transaction platforms exist RIGHT NOW.
300 million jobs are falling to AI globally and the most redundant profession in America is first in line.
The 6% commission racket is dead.
NAR is a co-conspirator in its own decline.
1.5 million agents. 70% idle. $34B incoming.
Do the math. The job isn't evolving. It's ending.
Power law update. We are trading at 0.7x. general floor is 0.5x. Versus Gold 0.3x (very extreme).
2026 end of year trendline 160,000.
track this at b1m.io
Didn’t even need a passport to get back in to the United States today. There was no customs process whatsoever. Didn’t talk to an actual person the entire way. Just walked right through. The rhetoric vs reality is fascinating.
@Akshay_Naheta@philliplord1 is Bakkt fulfilling its stated goal of building bitcoin reserves while the price is low? Or are there liquidity issues that prevent Bakkt from making the best of current crypto meltdown?