Institutional Investors and Whales

ForkLog 9 16.05.2022

Financial Times: Nomura to launch crypto unit

Japan's largest broker Nomura will establish an institutional-investor-focused digital assets company, FT reports.

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ForkLog 15 16.05.2022

Elwood Technologies raises $70 million from Goldman Sachs and other investors

As reported in Bloomberg, Elwood Technologies, owned by billionaire Alan Howard, closed a $70 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and Dawn Capital.

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ForkLog 9 13.05.2022

Nomura Offers Bitcoin Derivative Trading to Clients

Japan's largest broker Nomura expanded its product line for institutional investors to include Bitcoin derivatives. Bloomberg reports.

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ForkLog 21 13.05.2022

Aurora team launches $90 million fund to back DeFi projects

Aurora developers, the Layer-2 protocol on the NEAR network, launched a fund in AURORA tokens worth about $90 million to accelerate DeFi development.

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ForkLog 26 10.05.2022

Copper launches institutional NFT custody service

The London-based crypto custody service Copper has rolled out a solution for storing non-fungible tokens (NFTs), The Block reports.

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ForkLog 314 10.05.2022

Coinbase and MicroStrategy shares slump as Bitcoin slides toward $30,000

May 9 trading session on US stock exchanges ended with a broad sell-off in cryptocurrency-related stocks, with sector equities down 13.2% to 26.3%.

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ForkLog 27 06.05.2022

U.S. Senator Proposes to Codify the Right to Accumulate Bitcoin in Retirement Accounts

Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama introduced a bill allowing Americans to accumulate cryptocurrency in 401(k) retirement accounts.

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ForkLog 11 04.05.2022

US pension funds to bolster yields through asset farming

Pension funds in Fairfax County, Virginia, may increase their exposure to the crypto industry by participating in an asset-yield farming strategy. This was stated by the system's chief investment officer, Catherine Molnar, according to Bloomberg.

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ForkLog 18 03.05.2022

Jane Street to raise $25 million in USDC through the crypto-lending platform Clearpool

One of the largest market makers, Jane Street, has agreed with the crypto hedge fund BlockTower Capital to secure a USDC loan of about $25 million through the institution-focused lending protocol Clearpool.

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ForkLog 19 03.05.2022

Millennium hedge fund hires former Bitstamp and Coinbase executive

Prominent figure in the crypto industry, Hunter Merghart, has become chief operating officer for digital assets at Millennium Management, a hedge fund with about $53.5 billion in assets. The appointment is confirmed on his LinkedIn page.

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ForkLog 27 02.05.2022

Three Arrows Capital to relocate headquarters from Singapore to Dubai

The cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital plans to move its headquarters from Singapore to Dubai, Bloomberg reports.

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ForkLog 18 02.05.2022

Report: 73% of institutions expect mass adoption of cryptocurrencies

79.6% of retail and 72.6% of institutional investors are confident in the broad adoption of digital assets over the next decade. The results come from Bitstamp's survey.

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