Institutional Investors

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…

Crypto prices are headed up, at least sometime in the first half of 2019. That's according to Wall Street veteran Mike Novogratz, head of cryptocurrency hedge fund Galaxy Digital, who is considered an authoritative voice in the $220…

It's no secret there's trillions of dollars on the sidelines — just waiting for the right time to wade into unchartered waters of cryptocurrencies. Thanks to Fidelity's new company, Fidelity Digital Assets, institutional investors can do…

Depending on who you ask, cryptocurrency markets are either about to take off or on the brink of an implosion. Today we saw hints of the latter, but the fact is that while the market is making up its mind, many fund managers have already…

Be careful what you wish for. The cryptocurrency community has been ardent in its support for institutional investors. Passionate about mass adoption. And borderline crazy at times about decisions that seemed designed to crush the crypto…

Hong Kong-based Caspian has revealed the first operational institutional grade full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform, which it believes will help cryptocurrency’s bid for mainstream acceptance. The company also announced a…

News that Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley was planning to offer Bitcoin swap trading for its clients helped resuscitate the market last week. Crypto's total value rallied back above the $200bn boundary by early on Thursday…

The Principality of Liechtenstein is not on the beaten path. A German-speaking Alpine state nestled between Switzerland and Austria, the country covers just 62 square miles and had a population less than 40,000 citizens at the last census.…

Goldman Sachs has shelved its Bitcoin (BTC) trading desk causing a mini-meltdown across the cryptocurrency market. People familiar with the matter told Business Insider the investment bank scrapped plans to set up a desk to trade…