Grayscale now holds half a million Bitcoin
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust now holds more than 500,000 Bitcoin, surpassing $8.3 billion in value. Cryptocurrency fund manager Grayscale Investments now holds more than 500,000 BTC in its Bitcoin Trust. According to a Nov. 16 post, Grayscale now holds to $8.35 billion worth of Bitcoin— equating to 2.69% of Bitcoin’s (BTC) outstanding supply and market cap. But with Chainalysis estimating that around 3.7 million BTC have been lost, Grayscale may actually now be in possession of 3.37% of Bitcoin’s remaining circulating supplyAppealing to institutional investors who are prepared to pay a....
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The Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust continues to trade at a significant discount compared to the bitcoin it holds.
The largest digital currency asset manager in terms of assets under management (AUM), Grayscale Investments, has announced the launch of a smart contract fund that is compiled of ethereum competitors. The fund called “GSCPxE” holds seven different smart contract coins and it’s Grayscale’s 18th investment product to date. Grayscale Launches GSCPxE — Fund Holds Cardano, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot, Polygon, Algorand, Stellar Grayscale Investments has announced another fund that covers the landscape of smart contract tokens, but leaves the largest smart....
One of the biggest asset managers in Israel allocated millions of dollars into the shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Altshuler Shaham is now gaining exposure to bitcoin by investing $100 million in shares, according to a local media outlet. Altshuler Shaham Currently Holds $150M Worth in BTC Per Globes Israel, the multi-million-dollar investment yielded a return of almost 100%. That’s because the exposure was made by the investment house in December 2020, when bitcoin (BTC) prices were hovering around the $21,000 level. Afterward, Altshuler Shaham took profits when....
Grayscale Investments said Thursday that it added $300 million in net assets under management (AUM) in just the last 24 hours. The firm now has a record $7.3 billion in total AUM, according to a tweet by Barry Silbert, chief executive officer of the Digital Currency Group, Grayscale’s parent company. The biggest daily increases were reported in the litecoin trust, whose value rose 8% to $34.3 million. The bitcoin trust remains Grayscale’s biggest portfolio, inching 4% to $6 billion. The ETH and BCH trusts rose 4.9% and 4.6% respectively. Others gained between 2% and 6%.....
Ethereum makes up a large part of crypto-asset manager Grayscale’s portfolio. In a recent report, it shows that Grayscale now has over 3 million ETH in its asset under management (AUM), amounting to more than $10 billion. This makes the asset manager one of the largest holders of Ethereum in the space. Related Reading | Crypto Market Goes Into “Extreme Greed,” What This Means For Bitcoin The asset manager had gradually increased its ETH holdings over time, adding almost 20,000 ETH to its portfolio back in February. The recent filings show that the New York-based asset manager has....