Bakkt completes acquisition of stablecoin payments firm Distributed Technologies Research
Bakkt announced the deal in January, which was originally for 9.3 million shares, along with a corporate name change to Bakkt Inc.
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Bakkt announced the deal in January, which was originally for 9.3 million shares, along with a corporate name change to Bakkt Inc.
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