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‘Unprecedented’ Institutional Demand for Bitcoin: Bitgo’s Custodied Assets Top $16 Billion, No Paypal Deal

26.12.2020
Bitgo’s assets under custody have surpassed $16 billion. The company says it is seeing “unprecedented interest from institutional investors,” resulting from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent bitcoin bull run. Paypal was also rumored to be...

BitGo assets hit $16 billion as institutional adoption grows

24.12.2020
Digital assets under custody reached a new milestone this month, BitGo says

PayPal Talks to Buy Crypto Firm BitGo Have Ended: Report

24.12.2020
Talks regarding a possible acquisition by PayPal of bitcoin custodian BitGo have fallen through, Fortune reported, citing multiple sources. Read more: PayPal Said to Be in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including BitGo: Bloomberg

Side-Chaining $3 Billion in Value: There’s More Than 141,000 Tokenized Bitcoins Issued on Ethereum

21.12.2020
According to onchain statistics, there is a colossal amount of bitcoin, approximately 141,231 bitcoins or $3.3 billion at the time of publication locked into Ethereum-based tokens. There are roughly seven different wrapped or synthetic bitcoin tokens but the Wrapped Bitcoin project has...

How BitGo Is Getting Into the Events Business

8.12.2020
BitGo has added cap intro services, a kind of marketing activity carried out among hedge fund investors, to its crypto brokerage offering

Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Increase as Traders Rotate Capital Out of Cooling DeFi

3.12.2020
WBTC burns picked up in November, continuing into December

Nearly $360M in Bitcoin Moved to Ethereum in October Despite DeFi Cool Off

10.11.2020
October’s growth is less than half of September’s 68,000 newly tokenized bitcoins

Hong Kong’s Amber Group Picks BitGo Trust in Quest for Institutional Investors

10.11.2020
BitGo’s status as a qualified custodian should draw more high-net-worth investors to Amber from places like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Seoul

Hash Watch: Bitcoin Cash Services Reveal Contingency Plans for Upcoming Fork

5.11.2020
The Bitcoin Cash blockchain is set to upgrade on Sunday, November 15 and it’s still expected that the network will bifurcate. So far, a number of crypto services have revealed contingency plans for the fork, and today’s data shows that 754 out of 1,000 bitcoin cash blocks were mined...

Paypal’s Crypto Embrace: Morgan Stanley Says Move Boon for Mass Adoption, Critics Say Payment Giant Violates Crypto Principles

24.10.2020
The entry of Paypal into the cryptocurrency industry continues to expose the divide between traditional crypto space players who are less enthusiastic and non-crypto players who endorse the move. Non-crypto players like the analysts at Morgan Stanely are agreement with the notion that the payments...

PayPal In M&A Talks With Wrapped Bitcoin Custodian BitGo - Report

23.10.2020
Mike Belshe, Co-founder and CEO of BitGo. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg It seems that online payments giant PayPal has bigger plans in the Cryptoverse. Within weeks, the company could reach a deal to buy US-based major crypto custodian BitGo, Bloomberg reported, citing undisclosed...

PayPal rumored to be eying acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo

23.10.2020
Shortly after it was revealed PayPal will launch crypto payments in 2021, rumors are circulating that the payments giant is looking to purchase a digital asset custodian

PayPal Said to Be in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including Bitgo: Bloomberg

22.10.2020
PayPal is exploring purchases of cryptocurrency companies including bitcoin custodian firm BitGo, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. This story is developing. It will be updated as more is known

Record $616M of Wrapped Bitcoin Minted in September

5.10.2020
Monthly value of minted WBTC grew 160% from August

$1B in Wrapped Bitcoin now being audited using Chainlink’s ‘Proof of Reserve’

2.10.2020
Wrapped Bitcoin is now even safer with Chainlink oracles checking custody wallets every ten minutes

Bitgo Plans to Launch Wrapped Bitcoin on the Tron Blockchain

26.9.2020
Soon there will be another network that allows people to tokenize BTC in order to leverage the underlying blockchain’s speed and fees. On September 24, Bitgo, the custodian of the Wrapped Bitcoin project (WBTC), the most popular tokenized BTC platform to-date, announced a partnership with...