Institutional Investors

In November 2021, the digital asset industry soared to a record high of $3 trillion, while the custodial segment of the market maintained a more conservative figure of $447.9 billion in 2022, according to a report. Consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Aspen Digital, a wealth tech...

The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has announced a halt in the conditional MVP Operational License for BitOasis, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Dubai. This action follows BitOasis's failure to meet specific conditions within an established time frame. BitOasis received the...

About 63.5% of institutional players who took part in a Binance survey held an optimistic perspective on the cryptocurrency sector. Of the 208 participants, who are either institutional clients or VIP users of Binance, 88% anticipate a bright future over the coming decade. Dubbed the "...

WisdomTree, a leading player in the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) domain, has submitted a request to greenlight the WisdomTree Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) Trust, aiming for a listing on the Cboe BZX Exchange. This development closely follows a similar initiative by BlackRock Inc (NYSE: BLK), which...

Coinbase Global Inc.'s (NASDAQ: COIN) Derivatives Exchange announced on Friday it will launch institution-sized Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) futures contracts on June 5. The new contracts, named BTI and ETI futures, will be sized at 1 bitcoin and 10...

The collapse of FTX (CRYPTO: FTT) has been a driving force behind a fresh surge in the cryptocurrency market, according to a recent analysis by Bernstein. The report released on Monday explained how the downfall of the cryptocurrency exchange eliminated the final wave of "harmful crypto...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) funds are experiencing an outflow of coins as investors anticipate an early pivot in favor of liquidity easing from the Federal Reserve (Fed) due to the recent U.S. bank failures, according to ByteTree Asset Management's data. The number of coins held by spot and...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) surged to $26,000 on Tuesday, reaching its highest value since June 2022, amid a growing sense of optimism that the digital asset sector will weather the recent turmoil in the U.S. financial system.  The largest cryptocurrency has gained for the fourth consecutive day,...

The U.S. government's decision to provide a safety net for Silicon Valley Bank (NASDAQ: SIVB) depositors has led to a surge in the value of major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ether (CRYPTO: ETH) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and the market capitalization breaking the $1 trillion...

Cryptocurrency financial services company Blockchain.com has suspended operations of its asset management arm, Blockchain.com Asset Management (BCAM), due to the prolonged bearish market. BCAM was launched in April 2022 with the aim of attracting institutional investors. Shortly after the launch,...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) announced Thursday that it has stopped accepting or initiating payments to or from Silvergate Capital Corp (NYSE: SI) out of an "abundance of caution."  On Wednesday, Silvergate delayed the filing of its annual report...

Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) targeted Kraken's staking service, causing liquid staking tokens to rally. However, despite the category's total value locked approaching $15 billion, institutions in Asia have not shown much interest in liquid staking, according...

A recent research report by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) highlights how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) views most cryptocurrencies as securities. This view extends to staking services, which the SEC views as similar to offering any other type of security. The report,...

When cryptocurrencies first started gaining the attention of mainstream investors in early 2017, a number of crypto pundits were quick to claim that they could act as an effective hedge against inflation. Citing the limited token supply of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as the chief...

Crypto and decentralized finance is not nearly as obscure as many traditional investors will have you believe. On the contrary, DeFi and token technology has been embraced by some of the world’s most innovative companies, if not silently. The original obscurity and nerves by some to get...