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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-018854"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKKT"
cik: "0001820302"
company_name: "Bakkt, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T09:28:48.054297+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bakkt grants 1.6M performance-based RSUs to Co-CEO Akshay Naheta as inducement award

## Summary
- 1,607,717 PSUs and 11,426 RSUs approved by Compensation Committee on April 21, 2025.
- Inducement grant under NYSE Rule 303A.08 without shareholder approval.
- Material terms previously disclosed in March 20, 2025 Form 8-K.
- Awards subject to standard PSU and RSU agreements filed as exhibits.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-018854
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKKT
- cik: 0001820302
- company_name: Bakkt, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820302/000162828025018854/0001628280-25-018854-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820302/000162828025018854/bakkt-20250421.htm

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