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DATE

Monday, Aug. 10, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chief Executive Officer - Akshay Naheta
• Chief Commercial Officer - Daniel Ishag
• Chief Financial Officer - Karen J. Alexander

TAKEAWAYS

• Total Revenue -- $170.1 million, representing a 70.0% decrease from $568.1 million due to previously disclosed client transitions and industry-wide softness in digital asset trading volumes.
• GAAP Net Income -- $80.8 million, or $1.94 per diluted share, reflecting a significant improvement from a net loss of $14.7 million.
• Transchem Warrant Gain -- $98.5 million, representing a non-cash fair value remeasurement that served as the primary driver for quarterly profitability.
• Total Transacting Volume (TTV) -- $168.8 million for the second quarter, bringing the first-half total for 2026 to $410.0 million.
• Annual TTV Target -- $2.5 billion, requiring a significant acceleration in volume during the second half of the year as client integrations move to the activation stage.
• Strategic Asset Value (SAV) -- $118.5 million as of June 30, 2026, comprising the carrying value of the company's Japan investment and the fair value of Transchem warrants.
• Cash and Restricted Cash -- $50.7 million, supported by $48.1 million in proceeds from a February registered direct offering and $21.5 million from at-the-market equity sales.
• Monthly Active User Target -- 25,000 by December 2026, driven by the anticipated launch of Bakkt Agent-powered partner products.
• Operating Expenses -- $20.5 million when excluding $169.3 million in crypto costs and execution, clearing, and brokerage fees.
• Transchem Investment -- $9.4 million paid to date for 47.5 million warrants, representing 25% of the aggregate subscription amount.
• Network Reach -- Over 63 countries and 19 currencies supported, with technical connectivity established across 10 public blockchains.
• Cross-Border Margins -- 50 to 150 basis points, which management reported as higher than the take rates for G3 currency stablecoin volumes that range from a few to the low teen basis points.
• Adjusted EBITDA Loss -- $11.8 million, an increase from a $9.8 million loss due to lower crypto services revenue and higher labor costs.
• Bitcoin Japan Carrying Value -- $10.6 million, representing the equity method carrying value of the strategic position as of the end of the quarter.
• Transaction Advisory Fees -- $3.6 million, identified as non-recurring expenses related to the DTR integration and international strategy.
• Impairment Charges -- $1.2 million, representing a non-cash impairment of long-lived assets recognized during the period.

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RISKS

• Naheta warned that the expectation to reach EBITDA breakeven in the fourth quarter "depends principally on the timing and scale" of client activations and the visibility the company has on those flows.
• Ishag stated, "The movement in the second quarter was driven principally by lower trading activity," noting the negative impact of market conditions on transacting volumes.

SUMMARY

Management reported GAAP net income of $80.8 million for the second quarter, which was primarily driven by a $98.5 million non-cash gain related to the remeasurement of Transchem warrants. Bakkt, Inc. (BKKT -6.93%) completed the integration of its acquired payments infrastructure, allowing the company to move all payment processing in-house and consolidate its onboarding framework. The company is shifting its strategic focus from infrastructure development to the commercial activation of its three segments: Markets, Agent, and Global. Management confirmed that foundational technology for the Bakkt Agent platform is now commercially available, with multiple product launches and consumer-facing activations targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.

• CEO Naheta stated that the India investment represents a "broker led approach" to build local distribution for global assets in a rapidly expanding investor market.
• Ishag noted that the company transitioned its payments infrastructure "completely in house" following the April 30 close of the Distributed Technologies Research acquisition.
• Management identified cross-border payment margins ranging from 50 to 150 basis points, which are higher than the margins seen in stablecoin volumes for major G3 currencies.
• CEO Naheta indicated an expectation to reach "EBITDA breakeven during the fourth quarter" of 2026, contingent on the timing and scale of client activations.
• Management confirmed that stablecoin settlement via wire and ACH went live this quarter, connecting traditional banking rails to digital asset infrastructure through a single API.
• Ishag stated that the current product suite is fully operational and commercially available rather than existing on a future development roadmap.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• TTV (Total Transacting Volume): The total notional value of all transactions processed through the company's trading and payment platforms.
• SAV (Strategic Asset Value): A metric representing the aggregate value of the company's strategic positions in international markets as reported on the balance sheet.
• MAU (Monthly Active User): A unique end user completing at least one qualifying activity in a Bakkt Agent-powered product during a calendar month.
• DTR (Distributed Technologies Research): The technology firm acquired by Bakkt to internalize payments and stablecoin settlement infrastructure.
• Tokenization: The process of converting rights to a real-world asset into a digital token on a blockchain.
• Stablecoin: A type of digital asset designed to maintain a stable value relative to a specific asset or a basket of assets, such as the U.S. dollar.
• KYC (Know Your Customer): The mandatory process of identifying and verifying the identity of clients to prevent financial crimes.
• OTC (Over-the-Counter): Direct trading between two parties without the supervision of an exchange.
• Fiat: Government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as the U.S. dollar or Euro.
• API (Application Programming Interface): A set of protocols that allows different software applications to communicate and transfer data.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Hello, and welcome to BAC Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Call and Webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a Q&A session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You would then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. I would now like to hand the conference over to Cody Fletcher. Sir, you may begin.

Cody Fletcher: Good afternoon, and welcome to BAC's second quarter 2020 Earnings Call. Joining me on the call are Akshay Naheta, our Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ishag, our chief commercial officer and Karen J. Alexander, our chief financial officer. Today's discussion contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially those reflected or implied. We refer you to the cautionary language in our earnings release, in this presentation, and in our SEC filings including the risk factors set forth in our most recent Form 10-Ks and our Form 10 Q for the period ended 03/31/2026.

Today's discussion also includes references to non GAAP measures, including EBITDA, and adjusted EBITDA. Reconciliations to their nearest GAAP measures along with definitions and methodology for our operational metrics total transacting volume, monthly active users, and strategic asset value, are included in this presentation. With that, I will turn the call over to our CEO, Akshay Naheta. Akshay?

Akshay Naheta: Thank you, Cody, and thank you all for joining us today. The clearest way to understand PAC today is as 1 platform powered by 3 complementary engines. Mark, agent, and global. Each engine addresses a significant opportunity on its own. But together, they create a compounding flywheel that can become more valuable with every product, client, and market we add. Back markets is the regulated infrastructure layer, It provides a rails for payments, settlement, trading, and over time, the tokenization of real world assets. The financial system was not designed for continuous global activity. We are building infrastructure for a world in which value can move securely. Programmatically, and around the clock.

Batch agent is the intelligence and distribution layer, It transforms that infrastructure into a simpler and more powerful financial experience. For our clients, it creates a single platform through which they can launch differentiated financial products and deepen their customer relationships. And for their customers, it can make managing and moving money dramatically more intuitive. And finally, Bakkt Global expands our strategic reach. It provides access to important markets, differentiated assets, and scale distribution opportunities that will be slower and more capital intensive to build organically. As those positions develop, they can bring additional relationships, capabilities, and opportunities into the broader backed platform. Beneath all 3 engines is the same shared foundation.

Regulatory compliance and KYC, combined with programmable 24/7 stablecoin settlements. That common infrastructure is important because it means we are not building 3 separate businesses. We are building 1 integrated operating system. And that is where the flywheel becomes more powerful. Mark provides the rails Agents bring intelligence. Customers, and distribution onto those rails. And global expands the assets, relationships, and markets that can connect to the platform. More distribution, can generate more activity. More activity can make the infrastructure more valuable. And a stronger platform can support more products, partnerships, and strategic opportunities.

Each engine gives back a meaningful way to win, and together, they create a platform designed to compound with every turn of the flywheel, every product, client, and market we add, the system becomes more valuable and harder to replicate. Last quarter, I introduced the scorecard as a qualitative management view of our execution. It is not financial guidance It is a disciplined way to show where BAC is progressing where we are investing, and where our attention remains focused. The headline this quarter is clear. Execution is accelerating across the platform. Every category is either stable or improved. 6 of the 8 categories are now at 75 or above.

And the areas that required the greatest attention are also showing the fastest improvement. Partners and distribution increased 20 points, the largest movement on the page. Following the DTR close, we rebuilt the commercial organization. Sharpened the offering, and advanced the integrations and partnerships required to bring more clients and more activity onto the platform. At 50, it remains our most important execution priority, but we are entering this next phase with a materially stronger commercial foundation better visibility into upcoming activations, and growing confidence in the potential for flows to scale meaningfully as those integrations come online. Team and talent increased 15 points to 75.

We have strengthened the leadership bench, made substantial progress integrating DTR into our platform, and aligned the organization around a clear set of commercial priorities. AI enabled execution is also becoming increasingly embedded across the company, helping our teams operate with greater speed and leverage. That discipline is contributing directly to operational efficiency, which increased by 10 points. We are building a leaner, faster, and more scalable operating model. 1 designed to support substantially greater activity without creating the cost structure of a traditional financial institution. The broader foundation continues to strengthen, Regulatory is at 85. Infrastructure and technology are both at 80. With the DTR rails now in house and the agent platform on track for the second half.

Financial strength remains at 75%, supported by our balance sheet with no long term debt. And global network has increased to 75% as our strategic position and international relationships continue to develop. The important shift is the stage BAC has now reached. Much of the foundational build is in place. Our focus is increasingly moving towards external outcomes. Launching new products, activating clients, and scaling transaction flows. Each engine has a clear ownership and we intend to remain transparent and accountable for the progress we make. The foundation is in place. Execution is strengthening. And commercial activation is now the next major growth unlock.

With that, let me turn the call over to Daniel to take you through markets and agents.

Daniel Ishag: Thank you, Akshay. Good afternoon, everyone. Before I turn to the platform, let me briefly share what I have seen in my first 3 months. Akshay has aligned product, engineering, compliance, and sales around the same commercial priorities. And that alignment is translating into faster, more coordinated execution. The market we are building into has continued to expand this quarter. Stablecoin market capitalization reached an all time high of approximately $320 billion in May 2026. Adjusted on chain stablecoin volume reached approximately $1.79 trillion in June. A new monthly high. And global cross border payment flows reached approximately $2.08 trillion in 2025.

Against markets of this scale, focused adoption across priority clients corridors, and use cases can drive a step change in volume from our current base. Today, most of that money still moves through traditional correspondent banking. That means multiday settlement intermediary fees, FX costs, failed transactions, and limited transparency. The further you move away from the major currencies, the more pronounced these problems become. That is exactly what our infrastructure has been built to address. Let me bring you up to date on where the platform stood at the end of the second quarter. There are 4 key numbers.

1 core KYC framework across the product set, access across more than 63 countries, support for 19 currencies, and connectivity across 10 public blockchains. Behind those numbers are 4 production APIs all live today. This quarter, we consolidated onboarding across the product suite. A client can complete the core compliance process once and use that foundation as it activates additional products. With product and market specific requirements applied where needed. The second is our stablecoin API. Which provides the settlement rail from fiat to stablecoins and back again. Wire and ACH went live this quarter, closing the loop between traditional bank rails and stablecoin settlement within a single API. That gives clients faster settlement.

More importantly, it gives them settlement speed they can turn into a commercial advantage for their own customers. The third is Zyra. Our chat native interface for cross border payments. Zyra has supported live fiat payment corridors since last September and is now integrated into Bakkt's in house payment stack. And the fourth, is the Bakkt widget, our embeddable on and off ramp. Partners can integrate it directly into their own platforms and deliver the service within their existing customer experience. The widget combines the other APIs and demonstrates the strength of the platform. It is modular, but the modules work together. The principle is simple. Integrate once, then activate what you need.

1 core integration 1 common regulated foundation, and an expanding menu of products and services. The 6 offerings on the left are live and available today. They include our trading infrastructure, stablecoin OTC, digital asset OTC, our stablecoin on and off ramp, cross border payments through the Zyra API, and the backed widget. None of this is road map. These products are live and being sold today. For the second quarter, total transacting volume was $169 million. For the first half, TTV was approximately $410 million. Our current full year 2026 TTV target remains approximately $2.5 billion. And we remain confident in achieving it. The movement in the second quarter was driven principally by lower trading activity.

At the same time, payments entered TTV for the first time following the May 1 integration. The initial production volume is an important proof point. It demonstrates that the payments infrastructure is live, in house, and processing real institutional and cross border flow. We expect payments to become an increasingly important contributor to growth from here. The commercial problems we are solving are consistent across clients. Reducing prefunding shortening settlement times, improving traceability, and simplifying multiparty payouts. Those needs arise across supplier settlements, trade related payments, global payroll, and contractor payments. Our infrastructure addresses them through 1 core integration of across the markets and currencies we support. Achieving our full year target requires a meaningful acceleration in the second half.

Our confidence is based on a broader set of drivers now in place. 6 live offerings, payments contributing to TTV for the first time, and client integrations and activations already progressing through defined compliance, technical, and launch stages. The expected step up does not depend solely on a recovery and trading activity. In addition to activating our previously described relationships, we are advancing further opportunities across payments, the widget, and Embedded Finance. I also want to be clear about the metric. TTV is the total notional value moving through our platforms, and the margin we earn varies by transaction type. These businesses generate fees and spreads on flow.

As volume and product adoption scale, we expect the revenue opportunity to expand alongside them. The commercial organization is in place and selling today with senior coverage continuing to expand in line with the opportunity set. We have 6 live offerings, Integrations and activations are underway, and the mandate is clear. Activate clients, grow volume, and execute. That brings me to the second engine. And I want to be precise about what Bakkt agent is because it is the newest part of the story. Backed agent is a B2B and a B2B-to-C platform. We do not sell directly to consumers. We sell it to businesses, banks, fintechs, and brands, which use it to offer financial products to their own customers.

Agent, turns the regulated rails you have just seen into a simpler and more valuable customer relationship by connecting 3 layers. First, regulated rails. Accounts, payments, cards, cross border transfers. Second, financial intelligence, customer financial context used with the appropriate permissions to personalize the experience and third, customer action. A simpler interface that turns insight into action. For the end customer, that can create a more useful financial experience. For our clients, it creates a stronger distribution model. Deeper engagement, more financial activity, and more opportunities to generate value from their customer base. The client controls the customer experience, and drives distribution. Bakkt provides the regulated rails and the intelligence underneath. The way I think about it is simple.

The intelligence layer amplifies the value of every regulated rail beneath it. Agent is organized around 3 product paths. Embedded finance is commercially available today for partner integration. We expect co branded card programs and NeoBank as a Service to launch in Q4 subject to applicable approvals. First, backed agents embedded finance, Clients can embed accounts, payments, and international transfers into their existing experience through 1 modular platform more than 63 countries, 19 currencies, 10 chains, 1 core KYC framework, and 24/7 stablecoin settlement. And you will see 1 more line on the card. Targeted for Q4 of this year. A conversational interface on top of those rails designed to let a customer ask understand, and act in plain language.

With every action running through the same regulated APIs, and secure authorization. For clients, it is a differentiated experience that would otherwise require a assembling multiple technology, banking, and regulatory relationships. Second, co branded card programs designed around the client's brand and customer relationship. With issuing, payments and loyalty supported by a regulated stack and banking partners. Third, neobank as a service. A full branded experience with accounts, savings, cards, and rewards, and cross border payments. While Bakkt operates the regulated infrastructure underneath. Availability will vary by clients, and market remains subject to applicable regulatory, licensing, bank partner, and network requirements.

The commercial logic is consistent with markets, 1 modular regulator stack and multiple product paths that allow our clients start with the capability it needs and expand as its customer's relationship develops. This slide brings the product to life. It illustrates the branded end user experience that NeoBank as a service is designed to deliver. A client's customers can get paid into a checking account save towards goals, spend on cards with rewards, and send money across borders. All within the client's own app and brand. it is 1 branded experience with more opportunities to engage customers as they manage everyday money. And the experience is assembled from the same modular capabilities I have just described.

Let me close the agent story with the commercial logic behind the product set. This is a flywheel at the level of a single client. Markets provides the regulated rails, and agent gives the client multiple ways to use those rails across a deeper customer relationship. The path shown here is illustrative. A customer can enter the product path that best fits its needs and expand as additional capabilities come online. The 3 steps are embed, engage, and expand. A client can embed accounts payments, and international transfers inside its existing experience. It can then engage customers more frequently through a co branded card program.

And it can expand into a full branded neobank experience with accounts, savings, cards, rewards, and cross border payments. Across those paths, the client uses the same core integration and regulated infrastructure with onboarding and KYC applied as required by product and market. The commercial opportunity expands in 3 ways. First, each additional product creates more opportunities for fees and transact volume on the same core platform. Second, each product can add permitted financial context helping make the next experience more relevant and better timed. And third, expanding an existing client relationship can be more efficient than acquiring a new 1. Deeper product adoption can strengthen retention for our clients, and its customers and for Bakkt with its clients.

This is the strategy. Activate clients on the capabilities available today, expand each relationship over time and continue adding new clients. To Passport. Grow every client relationship as we grow the client base. With that, back to Akshay for Bakkt Global. Akshay.

Akshay Naheta: Thank you, Daniel. The 3rd engine is Bakkt Global with our strategic investments in Japan and India. Japan gives back the foothold in major private capital and innovation ecosystems where access to issuers private market opportunities, and local partners can be as valuable as the capital itself. The strategic fit is very direct. BitGo Japan creates local access relationships and potential asset supply. Bakkt Markets provides the durable technology and regulated infrastructure we are building to support the tokenization, settlement, and distribution of eligible private market assets. Rather than building a private market's footprint, from scratch, we can leverage BitGo Japan's partnerships to participate in this large and growing opportunity in a capital efficient way.

India represents a distribution side of the same strategy. Through Transchem, which we expect to be renamed in due course subject to required approvals, We are pursuing a broker led approach that can include acquisitions and strategic partnerships to build scale local distribution across India's rapidly expanding investor market. Bakkt's role is to create the global asset pipeline and tokenization stack, eligible private market, and other real world assets delivered through regulated local channels and ultimately experienced by consumers. From a modern, Bakkt-powered investment platform. Batch agent can make that experience far simpler, helping customers discover, understand, transact in and manage global investment opportunities through an intuitive financial interface. The end state is powerful.

Japan can build differentiated access to private markets and real world assets, India can build scaled consumer distribution. Bakkt connects both with its markets infrastructure agent experience, and global operating stack. These are not passive holdings. These are important footholds in a much larger platform opportunity. And this slide is deliberately straightforward. It shows the increase in the illustrative value of our strategic investments in Japan and India, including amounts currently reported in our financial statements and cash previously received. We invested in these markets strategically, and a significant portion of the increase is reflected in Bakkt's reported financial position. Both markets have independent governance and strong local management teams, who are executing for the long term.

That reflects the capital discipline behind our approach. Targeting investments in strategically important platforms that can create meaningful upside without requiring us to build every capability or market position from scratch. But we see this as an early marker, not the end state. As we execute on the strategy, build scale across markets and agents, and as these positions develop into operating platforms with deeper asset access and distribution, We believe the value that they create for Bakkt shareholders will compound over the long term. What is visible on this slide today is only the beginning of the opportunity ahead. Last quarter, we introduced 1 primary KPI for each engine, and here's where we stand.

For Bakkt Markets, total transacting volume, $410 million for the first half, including payments volume alongside trading for the first time. And we continue to expect approximately $2.5 billion for the full year. For backed agent monthly active users, we are not reporting any MAUs today because the relevant backed agent products do not have activity that is meaningful yet. But this quarter, we are setting the first marker. Jared on the launch plan, our Chief Product Officer, Ankit Khemka, and the product team have laid out. Our initial target is 25 thousand monthly active users by year end. Embedded Finance is commercially available for partner integration now.

Commercial end user launches and the MAUs that come with them begin as partners activate. The other drivers are on the calendar. NeoBank as a service targeted for the fourth quarter, and our cross border corridors, including flows into India and South Asia, ramping to the second half. And to be clear about what the number is, this is our year end monthly target, not an annual average. For Bakkt Global, strategic asset value, $119 million as of June 30, We have revised the definition of SAV this quarter to align it directly with our financial statements.

It now consists of the $10.6 million equity method carrying value for our Japan investment, and $107.9 million fair value of the Transchem warrants. There are no internal valuation models or additional components. The KPI reconciles directly to the amounts reported in the financial statements in our 10-Q. We will report TTV and SAB consistent each quarter, and we expect to begin reporting MAUs quarterly once the relevant back-end activity is meaningful, so you can follow activation and scale as it happens. With that, I will turn the call over to Karen. To review the financial results.

Analyst: Karen?

Karen J. Alexander: Thank you, Akshay. The financial takeaway for the quarter is straightforward. BAC reported GAAP net income of $80.8 million. Diluted EPS for the quarter, $1.94 per share. This is a strong reported GAAP result and an important milestone as we build a more valuable, full stack financial platform. We ended the quarter with $50.7 million of cash and restricted cash and no long term debt. That gives us meaningful flexibility to continue investing in commercial activation with discipline. We now have 6 live commercial offerings, $410 million of total transacting volume in the first half, and a current full-year 2026 TTV target of approximately $2.5 billion. Based on the integrations and customer activations underway, remain confident in achieving that target.

The Transchem fair value remeasurement is reflected in our GAAP results. And is fully disclosed in our materials. The broader point is that Bakkt enters the second half with a stronger platform, growing commercial momentum, and a clear path to greater flows as customer activations ramp We believe those flows can scale meaningfully from here, supported by the still early adoption of stablecoins across global trading and settlements. This reconciliation is provided for transparency and comparability. The prior year presented on the same continuing operations basis. You will see 1 new line, $3.6 million of transaction related advisory fees, are excluded from adjusted EBITDA and not expected to recur at this level.

Our focus is on translating the platform, integrations, and client pipeline we have built into higher levels of activity and operating leverage as activations ramp. In closing, we have delivered a strong reported result and have made material progress in the first half towards building back into a financial operating system for the AI and token economy. We are investing across regulated infrastructure, intelligence, and distribution, to deliver higher value solutions and tools to our customers. We entered the second half with a stronger platform, clear commercial momentum, and substantial room to scale. With that, let's go to Q&A. Cody, back to you.

Operator: Thank you. Then wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. First question comes from the line of Brian Robbins with Clear Street. Your line is open.

Analyst: So you have made some significant headway during the quarter. Was wondering if maybe you could take a step back and tell us how you see the business evolving further over the next 12 months?

Akshay Naheta: Thanks, Brian. So I think that we have we have we have continue to maintain the year end target on our total transacting volume at $2.5 billion. And I think that as the commercial team has expanded and we have attracted great talent to that team over the past quarter. We believe that volume will ramp up significantly next year. At this time, we are not gonna be giving financial guidance for next year, but if you assume the trend that we are forecasting going into year end, I think that trend will accelerate even faster going into next year. Yeah. Thanks.

And then in terms of capital allocation, as you look across your product portfolio, portfolio and you seek to deploy, you know, incremental dollars, right, incremental dollars to work. Which areas do you find most attractive? Would like to see you know, some financial muscle put behind or to grow them. And at this time, really, our entire commercial offering is fully connected, and it is integrated in 1 framework.

And where we are really spending a lot of time is in attracting the right kind of talent to the organization to actually go ahead and scale and activate the different relationships that we have to scale the transacting volume because at the end of the day, that is what translates into revenues for us and earnings. And so from my perspective, I do not think there are any major financial capital allocations that we see on the horizon for the moment other than the ones that we have already disclosed. And I think that our heads down focus is on really going out and executing on the opportunities and the client activations that are currently underway already.

Analyst: All right. Thanks for that color.

Operator: Thank you. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Palmer with Benchmark. Your line is open.

Mark Palmer: Yes. Thank you, and thanks for taking my question. Wanted to ask about the monetization of total transacting volume you know, especially given that you have 6 live offerings How should we think about the blended take rate of those combined offerings And how does the take rate differ across each of them? Thank you.

Akshay Naheta: Yeah. So I think the best way to think about this, Marc, is that when you are looking at stablecoin related volume, overall, as it relates to any of the G3 currencies, which is dollars, euros, and sterling, you are looking at very slim margins and take rates that range you know, from a few basis points all the way to in the low teen basis points. But then the real margin comes in the cross border payments opportunities, which are you know today, our platform is live, in over 63 countries. We execute in over 19 currencies. And there, the margins can range from anywhere between 50 basis points to close to 1.5 points.

And I think that you we have not given out any guidance in terms of where the blended take rate will come out, but I think starting next quarter, you will you will start getting more evidence on where, that number lands. I do not know if Daniel wants to add anything to this if he is on the call.

Daniel Ishag: Good evening. As we start solving payment problems around the world, as I actually mentioned, we have got you know, 60+ countries we are working in. We are seeing significant demand across a number of the emerging markets for cross border payments. And that is where we are really positioned to take advantage of greater margins. Over that, because we have an integrated offering, we are able to solve customer problems incredibly quickly without multiple onboardings. And those efficiencies are starting to really scale into major savings for our partners. So over the coming quarters, we look forward to keeping you updated.

Mark Palmer: Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, I would like to turn the call back over to Cody for more questions. Thank you, operator.

Cody Fletcher: So before we close, we wanted to address some questions we hear, most often from our retail investor community. These are all drawn from our followers on X and some other public channels. First 1 here is for Daniel. Daniel, what progress has Bakkt made since completing the DTR acquisition?

Daniel Ishag: Hi there. Look. We closed the DTR acquisition on April 30. And in just 2 months, we have consolidated onboarding. We have launched wire and ACH funding. We have brought the payments infrastructure completely in house. And included payments in the TTV for the first time. As mentioned earlier in the call, we now have 6 live commercial offerings connected through 1 integration framework. And we have strengthened the commercial organization with exceptional talent this quarter. The core foundation is integrated. Our focus now is activating new clients and scaling the associated volume.

Cody Fletcher: Great. Thank you, Daniel. The second 1 is for Akshay, kind of around Bakkt Global. How should shareholders think about the strategic and financial value of Batch Global?

Akshay Naheta: So Batch Global the investments that we made there have already created significant shareholder value for Bakkt shareholders. But the strategic opportunity is a lot broader than the financial gains that we have made from these investments. As I said in my prepared remarks, Japan basically expands our access to global private markets. And the associated real world asset tokenization opportunities that presents. And India really provides us with a very scaled distribution platform. which then Bakkt can connect through both Bakkt Markets and Bakkt Agent. So we believe that these investments in these 2 countries through Black Global can compound substantially in value for Bakkt shareholders over the long term.

As these respective operating platforms scale but at the same time, the strategic benefits and the associated revenue benefits that Bakkt gets to Markets and agent will be materially visible as these platforms grow. So what is visible today is only the beginning of the opportunity ahead. And I think that these tie in completely into the overall Bakkt strategy, but they also add to Bakkt in a big way because of the supply side and the demand side of the equation. That we are creating through India and Japan.

Cody Fletcher: Brilliant. Okay. Thank you. And our last question here, probably our most common, but when do you expect to be operationally breakeven?

Akshay Naheta: So the core platform is in place, and as we have alluded to in our prepared remarks, the activity that we see is going to grow substantially across the rails that we have already built. And we expect meaningful operating leverage without having to recreate the cost base of a traditional financial institution. We are not providing a precise date today. However, based on the current execution plan, and the client activations that are already underway, my expectation is that we will reach an EBITDA breakeven during the fourth quarter, at some point during the Q4 of 2020. That expectation depends principally on the timing and scale of these and the visibility we have on those.

But I believe we are well positioned to achieve that important milestone by then.

Cody Fletcher: Alright. Thank you, Akshay and Daniel and Karen and operator, back to you for closing.

Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.