Coinbase handled trades and custody for Meitu's $90M crypto investment
Meitu CFO Gary Ngan said the firm would have faced difficulties acquiring crypto on its own as a listed company. Crypto exchange Coinbase's institutional custody platform helped execute the purchase and custodying of roughly $90 million of Bitcoin and Ether for Chinese tech company Meitu.In a blog from Coinbase today, the U.S.-based crypto exchange said Meitu used its services to execute up to $90 million worth of crypto transactions “across multiple marketplaces with minimal market impact.” This month the tech firm purchased 379 Bitcoin (BTC) for roughly $17.9 million and 15,000 Ether....
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The leading blockchain-based global point integration platform, ASSEMBLE Protocol has announced that its utility token ASM has been added to Coinbase Custody. This means that ASM will receive a cold-storage custody solution from one of the largest custodians in the crypto sphere, Coinbase Custody. Coinbase Custody To Provide Cold-Storage Custody Support For ASM The support […]
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