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Spanish Regulator Issues Guidelines for Fund Managers Planning to Invest in Cryptocurrencies
18.5.2021
The Spanish financial regulator is easing the entity’s tough stance towards cryptocurrencies by announcing an unprecedented measure that green lights institutional investors to enter into such business decisions. The National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) unveiled guidelines that...
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Burns $6.6 Billion Worth of Shiba Inu Tokens
17.5.2021
After the dogecoin hype invoked a new ERC20 token project called Shiba Inu, the crypto asset has been making waves throughout the crypto industry. On Wednesday, the cofounder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin donated $1 billion worth of Shiba Inu to India’s Crypto Covid Relief Fund. Then a...
Grayscale Fund Touts ETF Conversion as Price Discount Issue Solution
16.5.2021
Grayscale, one of the largest cryptocurrency fund managers, has declared it is trying to morph the bitcoin trust GBTC into an exchange-traded fund (ETF) to solve its price woes. The exchange rate is now at a 20% price discount compared to its bitcoin holdings, a fact that has many worried about...
Investment Bank Cowen to Help Institutions Seamlessly Put Cryptocurrencies in Their Portfolios
14.5.2021
Investment bank Cowan, founded in 1918, is launching a cryptocurrency service in partnership with Standard Custody & Trust Co. to help institutional clients “seamlessly secure, access and leverage cryptocurrencies and digital assets in their portfolios.” Cowan’s CEO said:...
Grayscale's diversified crypto fund files to become SEC reporting company
13.5.2021
Grayscale Investments has filed to make its $630 million diversified large-cap crypto fund an SEC reporting company
Stan Druckenmiller: US Will Likely Lose Reserve Currency Status in 15 Years, Hard to Unseat Bitcoin as Store of Value
13.5.2021
Legendary fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller says that he is worried that within 15 years the U.S. dollar will lose its world’s reserve currency status. He said that crypto is a solution to the lack of trust in Fed Chairman Jerome Powell “and the rest of the world’s central...
Bitwise launches US ‘crypto ETF’… sort of
13.5.2021
Bitwise has launched a new ETF offering exposure to the top publicly-listed firms operating in the blockchain and crypto industries
Vitalik Buterin Donates $1B Worth of Shiba Inu Tokens to India’s Crypto Covid Relief Fund
13.5.2021
On Wednesday, Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin took control of his stack of Shiba Inu, a dogecoin ERC20 token, and donated more than 1 billion dollars worth of the currency to India’s Crypto Covid Relief Fund. The fund is an initiative that seeks to help people suffering from the covid-19...
Bitrue floats $50M cryptocurrency investment fund
12.5.2021
The crypto exchange platform plans to support blockchain startups working on paradigm-shifting use cases for the emerging technology
Rari Capital allocates $26M from developer fund to compensate hack victims
10.5.2021
Up to $26 million worth of Rari’s governance token may be distributed among users impacted by a hack that drained $10 million from the protocol this past weekend
Wealth Manager Vaneck Files Application for an Ethereum ETF, Aims for Cboe BZX Listing
8.5.2021
Public documents show the wealth manager Vaneck has applied for an ethereum based exchange-traded fund (ETF). Vaneck Digital Assets’ Form S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was filed on May 7, while the company’s bitcoin-based ETF is still under review. While...
Crypto.com unveils EVM blockchain functionality and related fund
7.5.2021
The new functionality will help smart contracts and applications from other blockchains transition over to the Crypto.org ecosystem
Osprey Polkadot Trust Arrives as Institutional Interest in Altcoins Swells
6.5.2021
The newest investment trust tracking polkadot echoes other moves by the fund manager to make cryptos accessible via traditional equity markets and satisfy growing investor demand as interest in ETPs mounts. Low-Fee Offering to be Launched on OTCQX Market Bitcoin may have been the first crypto...
JPMorgan Boss Still Bashes Bitcoin – as His Firm Readies a BTC Fund
5.5.2021
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan. JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon has reiterated he has no interest in bitcoin (BTC) in spite of the fact that his company is reportedly on the verge of launching a ground-breaking bitcoin fund.
Last month, media reports linked the firm with the imminent launch of...
Maker Foundation returns dev fund to DAO amid path to decentralization
4.5.2021
The Maker Foundation has returned 84,000 MKR to the project’s DAO in a major milestone for the protocol’s road to decentralization
Russian Media Outlet Asks for Crypto Donations After Being Labeled ‘Foreign Agents’ by the Kremlin
1.5.2021
Russian authorities have recently labeled one of the leading independent media outlets in the country as a “foreign agent.” Such a maneuver led Meduza to set up a fiat and crypto fundraiser to survive the consequences of labeling. Fund Will Accept Donations in Bitcoin, Ethereum,...
A $1 billion crypto fund could be on its way from Andreessen Horowitz
30.4.2021
The VC firm is looking to raise a considerable sum to put towards crypto investments
BNY Mellon fund laments: ‘We should have bought Bitcoin, not gold'
30.4.2021
SEC filings show that America’s oldest bank has attributed the underperformance of its small-cap ETF to failing to buy MicroStrategy shares after the firm invested heavily in BTC
$400M gaming VC fund Bitkraft teams up with Delphi on blockchain gaming
30.4.2021
The collaboration will seek investments in the gaming and blockchain industry
South Korea reportedly set to approve cryptocurrency-focused fund
29.4.2021
Regulators in South Korea are reportedly set to give the green light for the country’s first crypto-related investment fund