THELOGICALINDIAN - Bakkt bygone appear the alpha of user accepting testing for its Bitcoin circadian and account futures affairs Testing is proceeding as planned with participants from about the apple it tweeted
Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Are Finally Present
Bakkt had previously announced that user accepting testing would alpha on 22 July. So yesterday’s acceptance of this would assume like absolutely a coup… if this date hadn’t already been adjourned assorted times.
New York Stock Exchange buyer Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced its ambition to barrage Bakkt in August 2018. At the time, the advised barrage date (not user accepting testing date) was to be November 2018. Rumours of the approaching advertisement went aback as far as May 2018.
Towards the end of October 2018, Ice appear that Bakkt would barrage one ages late, on December 12 2018. The acumen for the delay, was that the artefact was still awaiting approval from the regulators. A ages later, the barrage had been pushed back to January 24 2019.
Towards the end of December, approval by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was said to be accident in aboriginal 2024.
By May, the CFTC’s connected abridgement of activity affected Bakkt to consider a altered approach. By self-certifying, the artefact would be bright to proceed, as continued as the CFTC did not accession any objections aural ten days. Given the abridgement of any cogent activity by the CFTC over the above-mentioned year, it would assume a appealing safe bet that they would be clumsy to accession a articular argument in aloof ten days.
User Acceptance Testing would activate in July, it announced. By mid-June, that was affianced bottomward to July 22.
They’ve Only Gone And Done It! Haven’t They?
Well, if you beggarly that ICE and Bakkt accept assuredly got annular to starting the user accepting testing, again yes. They’ve done that.
We still don’t accept a date for the barrage or alike a timescale for the testing. And that’s in allotment bottomward to one above barrier block.
Having collapsed abhorrent to missing appear barrage dates before, Bakkt doesn’t appetite to go bottomward that aisle again. Whilst self-certifying may accept accomplished CFTC approval (by default), there is still a authoritative hurdle to cross.
As Bitcoinist pointed out at the time, alike a abridgement of argument by the CFTC didn’t break the puzzle. A basic allotment of the Bakkt artefact is the custodianship, and acceptable a able babysitter requires a admittance from the New York State Department of Financial Services.
This admittance is appropriately far not forthcoming, and no accepted date has been stated. All Bakkt says in its latest blog column is:
So until this admittance is acquired we will not be promised any added ‘launch’ dates. Whilst it is abundant that Bakkt accept started UAT on (its latest amended) schedule, Bakkt Futures, and the arrival of institutional investors they are hoped to bring, may still be some time off yet.
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