Cryptocurrency
Grayscale: 84% of Q3 Interest Came From Non-Crypto Hedge Funds
As reported by Cointelegraph, “Grayscale’s Michael Sonnenshein contends that the asset manager’s recent Form 10 filing with American regulators would be ‘a milestone’ for the crypto industry if it’s approved. “Sonnenshein — managing director at the world’s largest digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments — made his remarks during an interview with CNBC on Nov. 20. “Earlier […]
As reported by Cointelegraph, “Grayscale’s Michael Sonnenshein contends that the asset manager’s recent Form 10 filing with American regulators would be ‘a milestone’ for the crypto industry if it’s approved.
“Sonnenshein — managing director at the world’s largest digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments — made his remarks during an interview with CNBC on Nov. 20.
“Earlier this week, Grayscale filed a registration statement on Form 10 for its publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) fund Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
“If approved, the trust would become the first cryptocurrency investment vehicle to attain the status of a reporting company by the SEC. In his interview with CNBC, Sonnenshein noted the robust institutional interest in cryptocurrency access products. Even just in Q3 2019, he said:
“’84% of inflows were from non-crypto hedge funds that want digital asset exposure.’
“GBTC has been trading since May 2015 and Sonnenshein noted that ‘if we just look at the last 3-month trading volume, it’s tripled year-over-year,’ regardless of Bitcoin’s performance on the spot markets…”