Institutional appetite continues to grow amid bear market — BitMEX CEO

Institutional appetite continues to grow amid bear market — BitMEX CEO

Institutional appetite for Ethereum will grow now that the network is ESG compliant, according to the BitMEX boss. In a recent interview, BitMEX chief executive Alexander Höptner shared his thoughts about institutional investors who, in his view, still have an appetite for crypto and Ethereum.Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore on Sept. 28, the crypto executive told Cointelegraph that there has not been a “single slowdown of institutional push into crypto” during this bear market.He added that institutions and finance industry players typically use bear markets for....


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