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Dovile Silenskyte, Director, Digital Assets Research, WisdomTree, writes that as of late November 2024, the total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies reached an impressive USD3.4 trillion, placing it among the largest asset classes globally.
Bitcoin’s meteoric rise to over USD100,000 landmark price earlier this month is driving a surge in inquiries from new investors at Europe’s leading digital assets fund manager Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel).
The surge in bitcoin ETF launches and funds flowing into the sector is transforming institutional investment in digital assets but arbitrage focused hedge funds are still the most attractive way to invest, according to new global research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel).
Tim Lowe of Attestant writes that, created in 2009, bitcoin is a “Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. Vitalik Buterin extended bitcoin and launched Ethereum in 2015, a “Decentralised Application Platform”.
Confidence in the continuing strength of bitcoin and Ethereum is driving wider interest in altcoins and other digital assets, according to new global research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel).
Coincover, a blockchain protection company, has joined forces with Utila, a crypto operations platform in a move designed to bring together Coincover’s protection solutions and Utila’s secure, non-custodial wallet infrastructure.
Project Atlas, a collaborative effort by the BIS Innovation Hub Eurosystem Centre, De Nederlandsche Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank, has been established to combine data gathered from crypto exchanges (called off-chain data) with granular data extracted from public blockchains (on-chain data).
With the Bank of England (BoE) discussing the creation of a ‘digital pound’, a new survey released by CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has found limited understanding of and support for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) within the investment industry.
Maryna Chernenko, Managing Director of UFG Capital, writes that a fully-fledged work of funds with crypto assets is only possible once the regulators agree on their classification.
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