Onboarding Institutional Crypto Investors- Coinbase Helps Execute ‘One of the...

Onboarding Institutional Crypto Investors- Coinbase Helps Execute ‘One of the...

Over the last year, institutional investors have been flocking toward crypto assets like bitcoin and after Microstrategy’s initial bitcoin purchase, the trending institutional demand for crypto started swelling. On Tuesday, the San Francisco trading platform Coinbase published a study that details how the company helped the firm One River Asset Management make “one of the largest digital asset trades in history.” Not too long ago, Microstrategy purchased bitcoin (BTC) for treasury reserves, and ever since then, a great number of well known firms have swapped cash and....


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