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Asset manager Rothschild investment Corp has acquired 265,302 shares from the Grayscale Ethereum Trust, a purchase worth $4.75 million. According to an SEC filing on April 15, the firm also bought an additional 8,000 shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), now owning a total of 38,346 shares. Not The Rothschild You Think Rothschild Investment Corp has nothing to do with the Rothschild family, but many in the community are still confused.  Founding members Monroe...

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is on route to surpass the largest gold-tracking ETF in the following few months, suggested Bloomberg’s senior commodity strategist, Mike McGlone. The analyst also outlined the ongoing digitalization phase as the primary reason behind BTC’s success. GBTC on its Way to Surpass SPDR Gold Shares McGlone took it to Twitter to exemplify Bloomberg’s views on the performance of the two largest bitcoin and gold funds in the past year and the projections...

Investment giant Grayscale recently added another $1 billion worth of Bitcoin in almost 24 hours. Now, the firm nears the $50 billion mark with $46.1 billion in total assets under management (AUM) AUM Growing As reported by CryptoPotato recently, the investment firm increased its total AUM by more than $3 billion, shortly after expanding its crypto-trust offerings by adding five new tokens for their eligible accredited investors.  04/09/21 UPDATE: Net Assets Under...

The world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager, Grayscale, has confirmed its commitment to convert the GBTC trust into a Bitcoin ETF. The company has filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that it has completed all steps before such a transition.  Launched in 2013, Grayscale is a digital asset manager enabling institutional and accredited investors to receive exposure to BTC and other cryptocurrencies without worrying about storing and...

Shortly after announcing plans to enable its institutional customers access to the first-ever cryptocurrency, Morgan Stanley has doubled down by filing documents with the SEC to allow 12 of its funds to gain BTC exposure through the Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust or cash-settled futures.  CryptoPotato reported back in February that a unit of Morgan Stanley Investment Management called Counterpoint Global explored whether or not to enable its investors to receive access to BTC. ...

Grayscale now holds 44.1 billion assets under management, which represents an increase of over 3 billion in just four days.  As reported by CryptoPotato, Grayscale expanded its crypto-trust offerings, adding five new tokens: Chainlink (LINK), Basic Attention Token (BAT), MANA (Decentraland), Filecoin (FIL), and Livepeer (LPT). These trusts, already operational for eligible accredited investors, surged in price considerably after the announcement. Demand For More Cryptos...

Recently, Canada made headlines with its work in the world of bitcoin and crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The first bitcoin ETF released in the country – and in the world, for that matter – was known as the Purpose Bitcoin ETF, and just a few weeks after its initial launch, it looks like the product has traded more than $1 billion in assets. Bitcoin ETFs Are All the Rage Right Now Clearly, the ETF world is one that crypto traders have long sought to enter....

Grayscale – provider of one of the world’s largest bitcoin funds – has announced that it is unveiling five new trusts based on assorted altcoins. Grayscale Is Giving Us More Digital Currency Trading Options Among the currencies these trusts will allow customers to invest in are Chainlink, Filecoin and Livepeer. Another trust will hold Basic Attention tokens, while a fifth will give customers a chance to invest in an asset associated with the virtual reality world...

Although Q1 2021 has a few more weeks left, it has already broken the record in terms of the most substantial inflows in cryptocurrency assets with over $4.2 billion, informed a report from CoinShares. Interestingly, Ethereum has skyrocketed in popularity among investors as it has garnered roughly 50% of the total flows in recent weeks.$4.2B in Crypto Since 2021’s StartIt’s no longer a mystery whether or not bitcoin and the cryptocurrency space have started to attract heavy inflows, even from...

Institutional investors employing the services of Grayscale Investments would have the option to choose from five new product additions. Namely, those are Basic Attention Token (BAT), Chainlink (LINK), Decentraland (MANA), Filecoin (FIL), and Livepeer (LPT).  The company’s recently-appointed CEO, Michael Sonnenshein, broke the news on Twitter earlier today. Upon the addition of the five aforementioned coins, the total number of Grayscale Trusts has grown to 14.  Sonnenshein explained that...