{"id":69545,"date":"2022-11-03T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69545"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:40:05","slug":"fidelity-to-offer-retail-clients-access-to-bitcoin-and-ethereum-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fidelity-to-offer-retail-clients-access-to-bitcoin-and-ethereum-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity to offer retail clients access to Bitcoin and Ethereum investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investment giant Fidelity Investments has opened a waitlist for its retail-focused Fidelity Crypto product.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get on the early-access list to trade bitcoin and ethereum and discover educational resources that make crypto a lot less cryptic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n1akhp2gBg\">https:\/\/t.co\/n1akhp2gBg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sZjQo7qVNg\">pic.twitter.com\/sZjQo7qVNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fidelity Investments (@Fidelity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fidelity\/status\/1588131515900231680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fidelity.com\/crypto\/trading\">the project page<\/a>, Fidelity Crypto will offer clients commission-free trading of cryptocurrencies and custody services through the Fidelity Investments App. The storage of digital assets will be handled by the Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) unit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThere will be no commissions on cryptocurrency trades executed through Fidelity Crypto. FDA will charge a spread (no more than 1%), calculated as the difference between the buy or sell price on the account and the order&#8217;s execution price,\u201d the site says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the initial phase, users will have access to Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. The list of supported cryptocurrencies will be expanded in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The company already offers investment services to institutional clients through Fidelity Digital Assets. In October, the unit <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fidelity-digital-assets-plans-to-hire-100-staff\">announced<\/a> plans to hire an additional 100 employees over the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>In October, FDA <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fidelity-to-expand-ethereum-crypto-offerings\">unveiled<\/a> plans to expand the product lineup to include Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>In October, 74% of Fidelity&#8217;s institutional respondents said that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fidelity-survey-shows-institutional-interest-in-cryptocurrencies-remains-strong\">planned to acquire digital assets<\/a> in the future, despite the crypto winter.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment giant Fidelity Investments has opened a waitlist for its retail-focused Fidelity Crypto product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1248],"class_list":["post-69545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-fidelity-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69547,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69545\/revisions\/69547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}