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Grayscale Investments, the digital asset manager with over $50B in AUM, announced the launch of its 16th investment vehicle – the Grayscale Solana Trust. The company’s press release, dated November 30th, explained that the new Trust will “solely and passively” invest in SOL – the native cryptocurrency of the popular blockchain project, Solana. The product is already available for daily subscriptions by eligible individual and institutional accredited investors. The Grayscale...

A recent filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals that the international banking behemoth Morgan Stanley has an increased appetite for BTC, even as the price of the cryptocurrency goes up. According to several filings with the SEC, Morgan Stanley has substantially increased its BTC exposure. The company has done so through buying additional shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Summarizing the difference between the shares Morgan...

Following yesterday’s price increases and new records, the world’s largest digital asset manager reached an ATH of its own in terms of AUM by topping $60 billion. Interestingly, if the company operated as an exchange-traded fund, it would have been the 19th-largest. If ETF, Grayscale Would Be in Top 20 Launched in 2013, Grayscale is the largest cryptocurrency asset manager with an AUM of over $60 billion as of yesterday’s update. To have a clear view of this meteoric rise,...

The New York-based giant Digital Currency Group sold $700 million worth of shares in a secondary sale in a deal on Monday led by some high-profile participants such as SoftBank, Alphabet Inc’s Capital G, and Ribbit Capital. With this, DCG becomes the latest’ decacorn in the crypto space. The secondary round, which valued the company at $10 billion, witnessed the existing investors selling shares to new backers. DCG is not only the parent company of crypto-media platform...

Digital Currency Group, the organization behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager, has decided to enhance its Bitcoin position by authorizing the acquisition of $1 billion more worth of shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust. The press release dated October 20th reads that Digital Currency Group has upped its authorization from $750 million to $1 billion. This means the company will more than triple its current position, which, as of October 19th, 2021, stands at...

Grayscale – the world’s largest digital asset fund based in the United States – has recently partnered with fintech investment platform iCapital to provide cryptocurrency investment strategy to the latter’s 6,700+ clients. Crypto Exposure for Wealthy Clients As reported by Globe News Wire, the partnership will be pairing iCapital’s technology and investment capabilities with Grayscale’s expertise in the cryptocurrency space. Together, iCapital will provide access to...

Not long ago, Gary Gensler – the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – commented on how the agency would potentially unroll an approval path for a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). The news had some people dissatisfied given the circumstances of the rollout, and now Michael Sonnenshein – the CEO of Grayscale, one of the world’s largest bitcoin and crypto trusts – is throwing his two cents into the mix. Michael Sonnenshein Shares His Views on a...

The largest digital asset manager – Grayscale Investments – has announced that the Bitcoin Cash Trust, the Ethereum Classic Trust, and the Litecoin Trust have become SEC reporting products. Thus, the total number grew to six. Speaking to Forbes, Grayscale’s CEO – Michael Sonnenshein – indicated that the company’s portfolio of funds reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission has doubled. He specified that those funds were the Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCHG), the...

JPMorgan reportedly allowed its wealth management clients to get involved with half a dozen cryptocurrency funds over the past month. One of them – a new bitcoin fund created by the digital asset company NYDIG – is only available for private bank customers. New Crypto Offerings from JPMorgan According to a CNBC report, the American multinational investment bank – JPMorgan Chase & Co. – has provided its top customers with digital asset exposure to six cryptocurrency funds...

The popular Bitcoin stock-to-flow model is flawed, and the asset’s price might not reach a six-digit territory as it predicts, claimed the CEO of CryptoQuant, Ki Young Ju. In a recent interview, he also spoke about the declining issuance of stablecoins, the negative GBTC premium, and the potential consequences for BTC’s price. BTC S2F Model is Flawed Developed a few years back, the stock-to-flow model and its variations take into account the annual supply of BTC (flow) and...