As Bitcoin continues its recent rally, Jon Cotton (pictured), Head Strategist at global cryptocurrency prime brokerage BCB Group, has commented on why this latest move may point to a sustained move upwards for the currency in the medium-term. “As trading volumes increase
Blockchain for private equity firm Swarm has partnered with decentralised autonomous organisation MakerDAO to integrate the Dai token into the Swarm platform. Swarm writes that this will give Swarm’s community of accredited investors a greater capability to lock in
OKCoin is to join SharesPost’s Global Liquidity And Settlement System (GLASS) as exchange nodes. In conjunction with SharesPost’s existing Alternative Trading System (ATS), GLASS will provide OKCoin with compliant access to the US investor market. “With the security token market
CMC Markets, a provider of online trading, has extended its cryptocurrency spread betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) offer across its retail client base. Clients can now take a position on the original bitcoin and ethereum cryptocurrencies paired against the
Falling prices for cryptocurrencies, and an uncertain regulatory environment, in 2018 haven’t deterred new crypto investment funds from opening, according to new analysis from Crypto Fund Research. The firm writes that 2018 is on likely to surpass the previous year
BlockTower Capital co-founder Ari Paul (pictured), has been appointed to the advisory board of Caspian, an institutional-grade crypto trading platform. Caspian now connects to more than 25 exchanges and has 12 funds on its beta platform, with eight more clients
Copper.co, a crypto portfolio management platform for institutional investors, has launched what it says is the industry’s first server-less (offline) co-sign custody solution, Copper Unlimited. Requiring multiple nominated key holders to verify transactions, Copper Unlimited aims to make transactions safer,
It’s a true sign of the times. The two top performing hedge funds of 2018, according to data providers Preqin, are both focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Silver 8 Capital – read about them further on in this report –
By John D’Agostino (pictured), Global Leader, Investor Engagement at DMS Governance, & Paras Malde, Director at DMS Governance. Crypto 101 Distributed ledger (DL) technology is the foundation on which crypto-currencies (or crypto-assets, depending on where one falls in the debate)
Bitwise Index Services, a subsidiary of Bitwise Asset Management, creator of a cryptocurrency index fund, has launched three additional indexes covering the mid-cap, small-cap, and total-market segments of the cryptoasset market. In addition, the company has renamed the HOLD 10 Index
