Bakkt Holdings Inc.

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Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership (Form 4)

FORM 4
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
Naheta Akshay Sudhir
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Bakkt Holdings, Inc. [BKKT]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
__X__ Director _____ 10% Owner
__X__ Officer (give title below) _____ Other (specify below)
CEO and President
(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O BAKKT HOLDINGS, INC., 1 LIBERTY ST FL 3 STE 305-306
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
10/31/2025
(Street)
NEW YORK, NY 10006
4. If Amendment, Date Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
_X_ Form filed by One Reporting Person
___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
(City) (State) (Zip)
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1.Title of Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4 and 5)
5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 3 and 4)
6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Class A Common Stock(1) 11/03/2025 A(2) 69,733 A $39.34(3) 261,159(4) D
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Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4, and 5)
6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date
(Month/Day/Year)
7. Title and Amount of Underlying Securities
(Instr. 3 and 4)
8. Price of Derivative Security
(Instr. 5)
9. Number of Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 4)
10. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Performance Units (5) (6)(7) 03/21/2028 Class A Common Stock 1,607,717 1,607,717 D
Stock Option (right to buy) $10 10/31/2025 A 1,342,282 (8)(9) (8)(9) Class A Common Stock 1,342,282 $ 0 1,342,282 D

Reporting Owners

Reporting Owner Name / Address Relationships
Director 10% Owner Officer Other
Naheta Akshay Sudhir
C/O BAKKT HOLDINGS, INC.
1 LIBERTY ST FL 3 STE 305-306
NEW YORK, NY 10006
X CEO and President

Signatures

/s/ Paul Simmons Attorney-in-Fact for Akshay Sudhir Naheta 11/04/2025
**Signature of Reporting Person Date

Explanation of Responses:

* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
(1) On November 3, 2025, pursuant to a reorganization (the "Reorganization"), Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (formerly Bakkt NewCo Holdings, Inc.) became the successor of Bakkt Intermediate Holdings, Inc (formerly Bakkt Holdings, Inc.)("Bakkt") pursuant to merger transactions, in which a subsidiary of Bakkt Holdings, Inc. merged with and into Bakkt Intermediate Holdings, Inc. with Bakkt Intermediate Holdings, Inc. surviving and, immediately following such merger, a subsidiary of Bakkt Holdings, Inc. merged with and into Bakkt OpCo Holdings LLC ("OpCo"), a subsidiary of Bakkt Holdings Intermediate, Inc., with OpCo surviving. The mergers resulted in the Issuer becoming the parent holding company of Bakkt and OpCo, but did not alter the proportionate economic interest of security holders.
(2) Pursuant to the TRA Amendment and the Contribution Agreement, as amended (both defined in the Form 8-K12B filed by the Issuer on November 3, 2025 (the "8-K")), the reporting person agreed that he would, at closing of the Reorganization, (i) contribute his rights under the TRA (defined in the 8-K) to the Issuer in exchange for a cash payment from the Issuer equal to the respective amount to which the reporting person would otherwise be entitled under the TRA and (ii) contribute such cash to the Issuer in exchange for shares of Class A Common Stock ("Shares"), and further agreed that the obligations of the reporting person, on the one hand, and the Issuer, on the other hand, to transfer the foregoing cash amounts will be net-settled and offset against one another.
(3) Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, as amended, the price at which the reporting person received Shares in exchange for his contribution was determined based on the "Minimum Price," as defined in NYSE Rule 312.04(h).
(4) Includes 11,426 restricted stock units ("RSUs"). Each RSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of the issuer's Class A Common Stock. The RSUs will vest on March 21, 2026, subject to the reporting person's continued employment with the issuer as of the vesting date.
(5) These securities are an inducement grant of performance stock units ("PSUs"). Each PSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of the issuer's Class A Common Stock.
(6) The PSUs shall be eligible to vest over a three-year performance period following March 21, 2025 (the "Vesting Commencement Date") based on attainment of certain stock price metrics as provided below (the "Performance Period"). A total of 535,909 of the total PSUs will vest, subject to the reporting person's continued employment with the issuer through such vesting date, if the issuer's stock price (measured based on a rolling 90-day volume-weighted average price "VWAP") appreciates at any point during the Performance Period by100% above $9.33 per share (the "Reference Price"). [Continued to footnote 7]
(7) [Continued from footnote 6] For each additional 25% of stock price appreciation (measured based on a rolling 90-day VWAP) above the Reference Price during the Performance Period, limited to a maximum of eight (8) additional vesting tranches, an additional 133,976PSUs will vest, subject to the reporting person's continued employment with the issuer through such vesting date. No PSUs will vest in the event that the issuer's stock price (measured based on a rolling 90-day VWAP) does not appreciate above the Reference Price by at least 100% during the Performance Period. Any PSUs that satisfy the above vesting conditions prior to the first anniversary of the Vesting Commencement Date will not vest unless and until the first anniversary of the Vesting Commencement Date.
(8) Represent stock options to purchase shares of the Issuer's Class A Common Stock ("Options") granted on July 29, 2025, contingent on the Issuer's shareholder approval, which was obtained on October 31, 2025. The Options are a commitment by the grantee to exercise a predetermined number of Options every quarter for eight quarters (the "Committed Options") at an exercise price per share equal to $10,00, which reflects the fair market value of a share of Class A Common Stock on the grant date. If the reporting person does not exercise the Committed Options in any quarter, then all remaining Options are forfeited. One-eighth of the Options will become exercisable over a two-day period in the applicable quarter (the "Exercise Period"); provided that if the Exercise Period for a quarterly tranche occurs during a blackout period, then such Exercise Period shall instead be the next quarterly Exercise Period. [Continued to footnote 9]
(9) [Continued from footnote 8] If the reporting person exercises the Committed Option portion, the remainder of that Quarterly Tranche (the "Optional Exercise Options") will become exercisable for a period of one year. The Optional Exercise Option portion of any Quarterly Tranche will expire at the end of such one-year period. Notwithstanding the foregoing exercise schedule, following the first quarter after stockholder approval of the Options, any portion of the Options may be exercised earlier than the applicable quarter, provided that shares of Class A Common Stock acquired on exercise of the Optional Exercise Options will be subject to a lock-up period so that the shares acquired on exercise may not be sold or transferred until the originally-scheduled exercise date.
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