The highly-anticipated launch of the Bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt, owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) begins user acceptance testing for its Bitcoin Daily and Monthly futures contracts. Contrary to what many expected, however, the price reacted negatively, dropping 5 percent following the announcement.
As Cryptopotato reported earlier in June, Bakkt was scheduled to begin user acceptance testing on July 22nd. Without any delays, the Bitcoin futures trading platform announced that it kicks off
UAT for their daily and monthly Bitcoin futures contracts.
Today kicks off user acceptance testing @ICE_Markets for the Bakkt Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures contracts
Testing is proceeding as planned with participants from around the world
— Bakkt (@Bakkt) July 22, 2019
Supposedly, participants from around the world are accepted. The interesting thing about Bakkt’s Bitcoin futures contracts is that they are physically settled. This means that once the contract expires, instead of receiving the cash equivalent of the underlying asset, the user will be receiving the asset itself. In this case, that’s Bitcoin.
There are two types of contracts based on the settlement period. The first one will be settled daily, while the second one will allow users to receive exposure for a longer time frame and it will be settled monthly.
It’s also worth noting that Bakkt is supposed to contribute $35 million within its clearinghouse risk waterfall. Moreover, the physical delivery and the secure storage of Bitcoin is going to be carried out through an integrated custody service which will be a subject to regulatory approval.
Interestingly enough, the highly-anticipated launch of the UAT of Bakkt didn’t trigger any positive action in Bitcoin’s price. Just on the contrary, the cryptocurrency is down about 5 percent in the past 24 hours.
This continues the losing streak of Bitcoin which has lost a total of 18 percent in the past two weeks and 7.8 percent in the last week alone.
At the time of this writing, BTC trades at around $10,130 and sits on a total market cap of around $179 billion.
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