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Finance

CrossTower Launches Bitcoin Fund to Compete With Grayscale’s GBTC

The fund is starting out with $20 million in AUM, largely from family offices, and touts lower fees than the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.

tower, CrossTower

Markets

More Institutional Investors Are Buying Ether, Seeing It as a Store of Value

The ether rally appears to be more organic and driven from within the crypto industry.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Institutions Keep Buying Bitcoin's Dip, Despite Near-term Volatility: Data

Institutions and "whales" have continued their bitcoin purchases, on-chain data shows.

A whale tailfin sinks below the ocean surface. (Paola Ocaranza/Unsplash)

Finance

eToro Survey Finds Pensions and Endowments Are Finally Waking Up to Crypto

The exchange quizzed 25 institutional players about crypto investing, including a couple of pension funds.

EToro (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Bitcoin's Active Addresses, Trading Volumes Now at All-Time Highs

Bitcoin's active addresses and trading volumes broke their previous all-time high set in late 2017.

The active bitcoin addresses reached a new all-time high.

Markets

Bitcoin Erases Most of New Year's Gains Amid Short-Term Profit-Taking

Monday's plunge has erased almost all the gains the leading cryptocurrency had achieved in the new year.

The bear returns

Markets

‘Bitcoin Rich List’ Rebounds to Hit All-Time High

'Bitcoin Rich List' broke its all-time high as bitcoin's price continues to rally.

whales, happy

Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Down to $26K but Traders Remain Bullish

Bitcoin fell to the $26,000 level after it hit above $28,000 on Sunday, yet markets remain bullish on both retail and institutional interest.

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Markets

CME Tops in Bitcoin Futures Rankings Amid Rapidly Growing Institutional Interest

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has become the largest bitcoin futures exchange by open interest amid institutional onboarding.

CME headquarters, Chicago

Markets

On-Chain Data Suggests More Institutions Are Buying Bitcoin Over the Counter

On-chain data says that institutions have not stopped buying bitcoin.

Big institutional investors are not deterred by bitcoin's current high price, and they're going OTC to buy it.