Bullish news: Fidelity made it easier for hedge funds to invest in crypto

[ridertiger]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

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[Sylvial]

News like this gladdens my heart and further positions cryptocurrencies as assets for investments. Mainstream adoption is what the industry needs to boom just like it in 2017. Hedge funds, institutional investors, fresh money need to be injected into the market for any meaningful bull run to happen as predicted.

[ShadowBits]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

That would be a wonderful news. It is a step forward for the cryptocurrency community and would like to see some more good news in the future.

[Lighthouze]

This is great news and it will help restore a lot confidence into the crypto marketplace. A full implementation of this proposal will see an influx of fresh investments into market. Now I see why a lot of analysts have been bullish on Bitcoin

[ridertiger]

Thank you all for your nice comments. Like I said, news like these are very bullish. Plebs and nocoiners who say crypto is lost can suck it.

[3acaga]

Yes it is very good!!!
And we saw yesterday this bullish rise of Bitcoin, it is a pity that the correction has just descended so deeply.
P.S. We will wait for more good news ...

[Fieldcoin]

This, the Bakkt is coming as well. We are still waiting to see the Bitcoin ETF descision. We have seen some great news and steps toward adoption in the last few months !

[babaya]

we hope this is could be main trigger for bitcoin and cryptocurrency price movement.so all price could be recovered soon while it launched.

[Pab]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

Yes that is really bullish
That news will nicely support SEC decision about bitcoin EFT
As i know listening will begin from 2019

[ridertiger]

I think that the ETF decision may go either way, but there is no doubt that crypto is here to stay. Now Venezuela is introducing a new stable coin, so that ordinary people can use it instead of stupid paper money

[tbterryboy]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

7 TRILLION?? WOW that's a lot of money. Dudes are handling money almost at the half of american debt amounts. Literally could wipe out half of USA debt in one single strike if they spend it on it. Of course they won't but the idea is that controlling as much money as the biggest debt in the world seems really uncontrollable.

Whatever these guys are putting the money into must be really big, think about it where do you invest all that money? How do you invest all that money? Hell we are here in crypto go up and down insanely when couple thousand bitcoins are bought or sold in a day suddenly by a whale. These dudes control 7 trillion!

[omonuyak]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

This is good news and I think institutional investors will start to have confidence in cryptocurrencies investments.  That in turn should translate into bullish trend in some days and weeks to come.  We are having a very big opportunities now if you are ready to buy now and holds for long-term purpose as the institutionals investors will come and push up the market.

[breathlessz]

I think that the ETF decision may go either way, but there is no doubt that crypto is here to stay. Now Venezuela is introducing a new stable coin, so that ordinary people can use it instead of stupid paper money

hopefully etf runs smoothly, so that it matches our expectations. and hopefully bitcoin soars, so that Venezuela does not disappear, because that means poverty everywhere

[sinkfish]

the only way to gain confident is to put that 7 trillion dollars hedge fund in to bitcoin, else all empty talk.

[ridertiger]

I sincerely doubt that they will put all their trillion dollars into bitcoin, but this was to show that such a large company was interested in and they are investing in bitcoin. This means that things are running towards the positive sentiment. Dont expect bitcoin to be a million dollars overnight.

[Whosdaddy]

This, the Bakkt is coming as well. We are still waiting to see the Bitcoin ETF descision. We have seen some great news and steps toward adoption in the last few months !

These are the sort of improvements we want to keep seeing and it is pretty good news actually. We have actually been seeing a lot of bullish news lately and I feel fundamentally we are on the track for a bullish move generally in the market. With more hedge funds having the chance to invest in cryptocurrency, we are absolutely and gradually moving to the mainstream and we all know what that means generally for the whole market.

It is a just a sad thing that those who keep claiming the government and institutions have been stealing from them, will still end up missing out and by the time institutions are fully in, with mainstream adoptions, they end up being laggards.

[ahmad21]

Fidelity Investments is launching a new company for institutional clients that will trade and store cryptocurrency assets such as bitcoin and ethereum, the mutual-fund company announced Monday.
The new company, named Fidelity Digital Asset Services, will not set up an exchange to trade cryptocurrency assets, but will connect with a number of other crypto exchanges to help its clients quickly find the best price. Fidelity will also store the private keys that control cryptocurrencies with a combination of enterprise software and vaulted cold storage.

Fidelity, which oversees more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, is hoping the new initiative will help it tap into what it sees as a sudden and recent interest in crypto among institutional investors such as hedge funds, family offices and market intermediaries.

(Source: http://fortune.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-company-help-hedge-funds-big-investors-trade-crypto/ )

It is true that the hedging funds has always been of interest to the institutional investors and this move by the Fidelity Digital Asset Services will capture a big share of the market thus enabling it come to the highlights. It's true that the demand for the same has been quite a few high. And if the company moves with the right strategy, targeting just the right market group, it will be able to survive better in the long run.

[Hydrogen]

US crypto markets would appear to be structured to conform to a centralized format. A stark contrast to how crypto business is conducted in the rest of the world. I think people should question reasons for this. Is there a secret deep state agenda to dethrone the USA as the world's dominant superpower and replace it with china? Would the world be better off if this occurred? Is this something people would like to see happen?

I think crypto is being regulated in a way which reduces some of its competitive edge and makes it more like traditional investments. One example of this is the ICO market which used to offer investments to poor and middle class demographics. This catering to the less wealthy gave ICOs a high growth potential as they supported markets which went largely ignored by large establishment investment firms. Now only accredited investors can invest in ICOs which eliminates this advantage ICOs used to have over traditional investment vehicles.

Gradually markets are shifting in significant ways which are being ignored or neglected.

[ridertiger]

It is not a secret state agenda! All countries USA is putting sanctions on have been trying to dethrone USA and the USD because it is used against them in these sanctions. And I think USA has been trying to keep up with this, keeping crypto out and USD in.
I have started to see that USA is not letting ordinary people get rich, or choose what they can do. Only accredited investors? That is a grave error in the face of liberty and justice.

[fullhdpixel]

we hope this is could be main trigger for bitcoin and cryptocurrency price movement.so all price could be recovered soon while it launched.

Well, it could be a trigger or not, but one thing is certain, news like this is a pretty good development for the space. Fundamentally like someone said, news are tending towards the positive direction these days and this is actually some of the things that always end up bringing about some bullish moves in the market.

Hopefully we even get to see this move made by Fidelity to support the ETF decision in the long run but whichever way, for those of us who are here now, we are pretty much on the right track and there is so much happening in the long run in terms of growth and development in this space.

[Junralz]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

Probably businessman/woman know the real purpose of blockchain tech. This is a lot of money which it can improve the economy if it is being managed properly. At least, we can see the interest of the people which is a sign of a better progress about this feature and hoping their objectives will sooner be successful.

[davinchi]

Of course they are not going to put trillions of dollars into bitcoin, the whole crypto space worth about quarter of a trillion dollars right now so unless they want to cripple the market all by themselves they won't. However, when you have a trillion dollar to invest into stuff and still make profit there are very few stuff you could potentially invest into without crippling hence they have to invest into many different stuff.

Stocks, forex, gold, hell even emeralds and sapphires and all that as well probably, they need to invest into foreign companies and stocks as well and so forth, you have to diversify the hell out of your funds to make any sense of that type of money.

That eventually came down to bitcoin as well, they could potentially spend about 1-10 billion dollars just to start and see where it is right now and how it would benefit them and even losing all of that money wouldn't hurt them too much, of course as a financial institute it is really bad for them lose money no matter how much but they are probably used to those types of swings.

[Onardonwan]

Easier transferability of hedge funds to cryptocurrency will lead to more investors for Fidelity. The seperate division will attract many investors, which can be speculated at least.

[Haethiel]

Wow, Fidelity investment making a new and separate company for cryptocurrency is nothing but a wonderfull news. This kind of news shows the growth of cryptocurrency globally.

[t3ChNo]

This is a great news. I do hope that some others will follow suit. Great for those big investors who knows that blockchain tech in general may be of great use for them in the future.

[Micronometer]

Certainly it's a good news for bitcoin. We need this kind of investment to get back the bull run of previous year. Let's just hope for the best.

[Angleworm]

CNBC news published: Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7. 2 trillion in client assets, has announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Advantage Services on Monday. Their own goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to depositors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and TOP DOG Abigail Johnson says. So its not bullish news, but get some really fgood thing to do.

[Nhebu]

$7.2 trillion? It's amazing! If it happens, expect that there is huge changes in bitcoin. It will also pull all cryptocurrencies specially the top coins in every market. Imagine a trillion dollars will spend in BTC and hold for a long term. That is really awesome! In that case, bitcoin will become luxurious and people hold it will become millionaires.

[Jating]

This is great news and it will help restore a lot confidence into the crypto marketplace. A full implementation of this proposal will see an influx of fresh investments into market. Now I see why a lot of analysts have been bullish on Bitcoin

I think what help restore confidence in crypto is regulation, imho.

This, the Bakkt is coming as well. We are still waiting to see the Bitcoin ETF descision. We have seen some great news and steps toward adoption in the last few months !

Exactly, there's a lot of positive news in the air right now. But we wonder why the price is not reacting or at least the price is sustainable to say that we are out of the bear market? Its because investors are getting smart in 2018 and doesn't want to make to take a lost at this point. So this news, won't make a significant impact and we would continue to see the market trading sideways with a couple of sell downs here and there.

[TheClownSong]

I am believe in near future, more institutional finance or big investor make announcement that they already collecting crypto as their new investment instrument. I am believe market drop in past several months because big investor want buying at cheapes level. RIght now, i am believe on bullish movement

[HabBear]

“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

Abigail Johnson has been a huge supporter of bitcoin and crytpocurrencies for a few years. It's safe to say that she's been trying to find a way for Fidelity to offer trading or custody services in earnest since about 2016 or so. I'm thrilled to see it coming to reality. The cool thing about Fidelity bringing this news to us, rather than any other investment firm is that Fidelity is a leader in retirement investing and assets for their clients. They're not a hedge fund, they're not a trading firm. This means that inherently there is a deep "buy and hold" theme that they encourage with their clients or that their clients are already engaging in.

We may have just found our new wave of hodlers, friends!

[Renaldi blackspadeteam]

7 trillion dollars, money that I can't have, Wall Street companies use this money for bitcoin and institutional investors, it looks like this will affect crypto prices in many markets, but for now I still haven't seen a significant increase in trading volume on the market, okay I will wait for that.

[setialovers]

Fidelity is good and reputable company, handling a large capital to manage and i think others financial instutituion will following this step and investing their funds to cryptocurrency. Market cap cryptocurrency will be rising if more financial intitution come to market

[juperos]

This is really one of the best things I have ever expected. I think their market should be well known and there should be such companies that help people who do not understand e-wallets can invest more easily. This is a great solution and it is even better than the trading platform. a great idea.

[1Referee]

Imagine a trillion dollars will spend in BTC and hold for a long term. That is really awesome! In that case, bitcoin will become luxurious and people hold it will become millionaires.

I don't want to pop your bubble, but they are NOT going to spend a trillion dollars on Bitcoin.

The most we can expect them to do is to allocate a very conservative percentage of their total assets to Bitcoin. 0.1-0.5% would be immense already if you take into consideration that it equals $7-$35 billion dollars, which is far more than what went into this market during last year's bull run.

Important for people to understand is that Fidelity having $7 trillion dollars worth of assets doesn't mean they can blindly invest it in whatever they think is the best option. It's not their money for the most part, but from you, your neighbour, businesses, etc. They have to ask internal permission first, after that we can see them proceed with their plans to actually invest in Bitcoin.

[arbifahrozy]

This news shows that the US allows many companies to use investor assets to be used in trading and investing in crypto.
like the companies that have won the investment funds in buying and selling can be in the form of gold or money, now in the form of crypto.

[Globalbitcoinl]

all this is to bypass the adoption of the ETF ? I'm not sure how that could be. what if news about the ETF ?

[olubams]

This Wall Street company with 7 trillion USD (not million, not billion, but trillion) will handle bitcoin for institutional investors.
Check it out:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html
Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services on Monday.
The firm will handle custody for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and will execute trades on multiple exchanges for investors such as hedge funds and family offices.
Other crypto companies have debuted similar products, but Fidelity is the first Wall Street incumbent to officially provide cryptocurrency solutions such as custody.
“Our goal is to make digitally native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors,” Fidelity Investments Chairman and CEO Abigail Johnson says.

If this is true then it's something to be joyous about but at the same time should not just be the reason to start to alter position because when it comes to crypto, its always the opposite that usually happens and because the market is too dynamic and  equally volatile to conclude a particular direction is what price will go due to certain happenings in the industry.

[wahyu wida]

This news shows that the US allows many companies to use investor assets to be used in trading and investing in crypto.
like the companies that have won the investment funds in buying and selling can be in the form of gold or money, now in the form of crypto.

for those who are aware of opportunities for developing cryptocurrency, it will certainly change idea of ​​crypto. America is a well-established country, they will bring crypto, where in future many countries must follow it

[spongegar]

Well, if this actually makes it easier for people to invest on crypto currency then it is well and good. I just hope that this move helps crypto currency to be more stable so that we can actually see adoption of the coins and actually use it for everyday living. I also really hope that we see more growth in the market now more than ever.