Inside Bakkt’s mission to help banks offer crypto services to retail

Episode 86 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded live with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Bakkt Chief Product Officer Dan O’Prey.

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Since going public last October, the digital asset management platform Bakkt has been working towards enabling more businesses to provide crypto services to their customers.

For example, in April of this year, Bakkt closed a deal with American Bank which allows the bank’s customers to buy and sell both bitcoin and ether.

In this episode of The Scoop, Bakkt’s Chief Product Officer Dan O’Prey lays out Bakkt’s ambitions for the future and breaks down his company’s strategy to help banks grow their client-facing crypto offerings.

According to O’Prey, Bakkt hopes to position itself as the underlying infrastructure layer that enables access to a variety of crypto services:

“Bakkt is aiming to be that infrastructure platform — those services under the hood — that can enable non-crypto companies to offer crypto to their consumers in a variety of different fashions.”

During this episode, Chaparro and O’Prey also discuss:

• What it means to be a bitcoin ‘maximalist’
• Where we fall on the digital asset adoption curve
• How brands can leverage crypto in their rewards programs

This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Tron, Chainalysis & IWC Schaffhausen

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