Institutional Investors

Banking technology firm Avaloq has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). The EEA is a global non-profit consortium of companies hailing from several major industries, including  technology, banking, government, healthcare, energy,…

A millisecond makes millions of dollars worth of difference. Connexus Cloud and institutional investors are laying the foundations for institutional involvement in cryptocurrency.

While multiple projects struggled in the crypto crunch, for Grayscale Investments 2018 was the best year they've ever had. In their quarterly report, released on Thursday, Grayscale said that despite declining prices and market…

Don't let today's modest declines in the bitcoin (BTC) price fool you. The signs suggest that crypto mainstream adoption is getting closer, at least if you ask the founder of digital asset management firm Morgan Creek Digital, Anthony…

The ETF may be off, but institutional adoption is still trickling in.  Fidelity Investments is reportedly planning to launch its Bitcoin custody service in the final month of Q1 2019, according to Bloomberg.  The commitment from Fidelity is…

Huobi is preparing to release XRP derivatives contracts in the "very near future," as the exchange seeks to provide more products and services aimed at institutional investors. Josh Goodbody, Huobi's General Counsel, told Crypto Briefing…

Some of the world's largest institutional investors believe that public companies will soon have to declare their intentions for blockchain technology, and that DLT executives may even find seats in the company boardroom. In a survey…

A crypto market preoccupied with short term returns will be an unlikely place for a bull run, believes a former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. Speculators will have to leave the space first for prices to increase. Patrick Springer,…

The Wizard of Oz  is a favorite classic movie over the festive season. In an iconic scene, the titular character is initially presented as a "great and powerful" green head, with a booming voice, surrounded by flames and red smoke. But …

Market capitalization may be crumbling, but there’s one place where money’s still moving. Venture capital continued to pour into blockchain projects this week, even as retail investors fled the market. While all signs continue to indicate…

Venture capitalists need to have nerves of steel to invest in the crypto space when times are tough, but not all of them do. One exception is NEO Global Capital, which has just backed Singapore-based Ultrain. The project plans to use the…

Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin (BTC) as an alternative to centralized payments, to exist independently from the flawed banks. As central banks tighten the valves of monetary policies, this aspect of cryptocurrency may come back to the…

The Bitcoin price pushed past the $4,000 mark earlier today, as the market shows some signs of recovery. The upswing might be a result of changing sentiment and new institutional players, as Nasdaq revealed new products for virtual…

Institutional investors have been one of the key goals for the cryptocurrency sector. You'd think it was the Second Coming, the amount people talk about it. But what are the ramifications? According to Jackson Palmer, one of the main…

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced it will tentatively begin trading daily Bitcoin futures on December 12th, 2018. Bitcoin (BTC) is to be paired with the US Dollar, via the Bakkt platform, and held in ICE’s Digital Asset…

The market started feeling a little queasy last week. The Tether (USDT) price had unaccountably lost its peg to the US dollar. Different exchanges were reporting different prices, but some were going as low as $0.85 per token. Some…