A new ICE-OKX joint venture creates a regulated bridge between traditional finance and crypto, giving OKX's 120 million users access to ICE futures markets and NYSE tokenized equities.
Originally scheduled for November, Bakkt was announced in August 2018 as “a scalable on-ramp for institutional, merchant and consumer participation in digital assets.”
Though the involvement for big U.S.-based financial players will certainly affect the market, established cryptocurrency exchanges are optimistic about the future.