Digital asset investment company Grayscale has re-opened its doors to new investors for the majority of its digital asset trusts.
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust applies periodic pauses on new investors. On December 21, the fund put a pause on new investors. It's significant because the fund is one of the few places where institutional investors in the US are able to get exposure to Bitcoin. During this time, however, existing investors were still able to buy shares in the trust.
Investing in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust requires a six-month lock up period. In other words, new investors cannot sell their shares on the secondary market for the first six months.
As of yesterday, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust held about $20 billion in assets under management.
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is not the only investment product on offer. Grayscale also provides investment opportunities for other major cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum and Litecoin.
Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the first-ever Bitcoin transaction sent from one person to another. At the receiving end was computer scientist Hal Finney, who got the 10 Bitcoin from Satoshi Nakamoto, the network’s mysterious, pseudonymous creator.
The transaction on the now-historic date proved that Bitcoin—as a money network—did indeed work in reality and set the foundation for its future growth. It came a week after Nakamoto started running the Bitcoin network on their computing syste...
At the time of writing, the Grayscale Ethereum Trust—which is yet to reopen—and the Grayscale Litecoin Trust hold $3 billion and $158 million in assets under management respectively.
01/11/21 UPDATE: Net Assets Under Management, Holdings per Share, and Market Price per Share for our Investment Products.
Yesterday, Bitcoin dropped to $30,000 from a high of $41,000. But today, Bitcoin’s price appears to have levelled out to about $35,000, after recovering from lows of $30,000.
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Ethereum just lost one of its long-time institutional backers.
In a Thursday statement, algorithmic trading firm Two Prime announced it is dropping all exposure to Ethereum (ETH) and will exclusively manage and lend against Bitcoin (BTC) going forward, citing Ethereum’s unpredictable behavior, declining market momentum, and eroding institutional appeal.
Why Two Prime is Going BTC Only https://t.co/VtrQAUyGL0 pic.twitter.com/4BWVd8R7HM
— Two Prime (@Two_Prime) May 1, 2025
Two Prime didn’t say h...
Crypto asset manager 21Shares applied for an exchange-traded fund tracking the price of Sui, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
The 21Shares Sui ETF aims to broaden investors’ access to the native token of the layer-1 network designed for high-speed transactions, which has been dubbed by some as a “Solana Killer.”
The filing named Coinbase as a custodian to safeguard investors’ funds, according to the registration statement, but did not specify...
New CertiK estimates suggest about $364 million was lost through crypto hacks, scams and exploits in April alone.
The cybersecurity firm says the vast majority of this total, $337 million, is related to phishing attacks.
#CertiKStatsAlert 🚨
Combining all the incidents in April we’ve confirmed ~$364M lost to exploits, hacks and scams after ~$18.2m was returned.
KiloEx, Loopscale and zkSync all had funds returned by whitehat exploiters.
~$337M of the total is attributed to phishing.
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