Coinbase Says Interest From Pension Funds and Hedge Funds Has Skyrocketed, Institutional Holdings Soar 170%

The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed record growth in its institutional business. “This year, interest from pension funds and hedge funds has skyrocketed, supported by the roll-out of crypto-ETPs as well as an increased understanding of the crypto economy,” said Coinbase.

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Coinbase Considers Buying Asset Manager Osprey Funds

Coinspeaker Coinbase Considers Buying Asset Manager Osprey Funds Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas said that the firm is preparing to expand the categories of financial services it offers to its users.

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СМИ: Coinbase ведет переговоры о покупке управляющего активами Osprey Funds

Котирующаяся на Nasdaq биткоин-биржа Coinbase ведет переговоры о покупке управляющей активами компании Osprey Funds. Об этом пишет CoinDesk со ссылкой на осведомленные источники. Один из собеседников издания подчеркнул, что переговоры проходят на высоком уровне и носят неофициальный характер.

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Coinbase seeks additional $1.25 billion funding via institutional investors

Coinbase said on Monday that it plans to raise about $1. 2 billion from private debt offering in a bid to inject funds, following the continuous underperformance of its Nasdaq-listed stock. The cryptocurrency exchange will also be granted the initial purchasers of the notes a 30-day option to buy up to an extra $187.

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Coinbase helps public funds and ETFs around the world with trading and custody

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Osprey Funds запустил фонд на криптовалюту DOT с хранением на Coinbase

Управляющий криптовалютными активами Osprey Funds объявил о запуске нового фонда, инвестиции которого будут вложены в криптовалюту DOT проекта Polkadot.

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Cathie Wood Continues to Bet Bigger on Coinbase; Deutsche Boerse Delist COIN Due to Code Error

Her funds now collectively own more than 1.5 million COIN shares which are trading down at $320, in line with weak Bitcoin price action. The post Cathie Wood Continues to Bet Bigger on Coinbase; Deutsche Boerse Delist COIN Due to Code Error first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Cathie Wood’s ARK Funds Buy More Coinbase (COIN) Shares, Now Owning Just Under 1.3 Million

Cathie Wood has rebalanced the company's portfolio in favor of cryptocurrency stocks, yet again. ARK funds bought 187,078 shares of Coinbase on Friday, adding to the 341,186 shares purchased on Thursday and 749,205 purchased on Wednesday.

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Cathie Woods' Ark buys a further $110M worth of Coinbase shares

Three exchange-traded funds offered by Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest added a total of 341,186 shares in Coinbase, worth a combined $110 million, on Thursday.

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Ark Investment Acquires $246 Million Worth of Coinbase Shares

Ark Innovation ETF, Ark Next Generation Internet ETF, and Ark Fintech Innovation ETF shelled out $246 million on Coinbase shares, following its listing on Nasdaq yesterday. The three trust funds are subsidiaries of New York-based investment management firm ARK Investment Management LLC.

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Decade-Old Crypto Exchange Listed on Nasdaq at 4 Times its Valuation

Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management’s three funds bought nearly 750k Coinbase shares, which went to almost $430 before ending the day at around $328. 28. The Crypto market is experiencing volatility, seeing new ATHs and retracements.

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Ark Funds Spends $246M on Coinbase Stocks

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Chainalysis Raises $100 Million with a $2 Billion Valuation, No Plans to Go Public Yet

Blockchain research and analysis firm Chainalysis is the latest company in the crypto industry to raise funds. The firm has raised $100 million from investors led by Paradigm, co-founded by crypto exchange Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehsram.

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Institutions Withdraw Massive Amount of Bitcoin from Coinbase, Moving It to Cold Storage

CryptoQuant has shared data that on Friday 13,000 Bitcoin was withdrawn from Coinbase by US hedge funds as their demand is growing

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Top US university endowments have been buying BTC for a year

The endowment funds of several Ivy League universities have been purchasing crypto directly from Coinbase Exchange, among other exchanges, for more than a year now. A report unveiled this news on January 26, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

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Growing Number of Clients Bought ETH, But Only A Select Group of VC Funds & Family Offices Investing in DeFi: Coinbase

DeFi remains retail-driven just like the early days of Bitcoin adoption, says Coinbase whose clients are interested in Ethereum’s evolving potential as a store of value and its status as a digital commodity.

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Crypto Mining Service, Titan, Receives Investment Funds From Coinbase Ventures

The developer of Bitcoin mining software and services Titan has announced a strategic investment fund from Coinbase Ventures. The investment fund was made during Titan’s seed fundraising round. The investment will allow Titan to expand its offerings, which enable Bitcoin mining firms to achieve growth, profitability, efficiency, and sustenance.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Wants to Crowdsource Asset Listings; What’s Up With Tether’s Bank?

Deltec invested some clients' funds in bitcoin, but not Tether's, the bank confirms. So what exactly is backing tether?

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Hedge funds continue to look to Coinbase for innovative portfolio solutions

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Over 22,000 BTC Flows Out of Coinbase; Users Retaliating to Exchange’s Deal with the US Govt.?

Earlier this week, a massive outflow of funds was registered on US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The exchange saw a negative flow of 22,137 BTC, worth more than $214 million on Monday. WhaleAlert reported the transfer of 1,975 BTC from Coinbase to an unknown wallet on June 9th.

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Coinbase Custody Adds Staking Support for Cosmos, Tezos and Alogorand

Clients can now earn income on their holdings without having to risk their funds on the speculative market. Coinbase Custody has added support for staking Cosmos (ATOM), the US-based crypto exchange announced via a Medium blog post.

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Coinbase Launches Price Oracle Aimed at Reducing Systemic Risk in the DeFi Space

With around a billions dollars locked in decentralized finance projects, the new data feed for cryptocurrency prices is aimed to help keep those funds secure.

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Leading French Bank, BNP Paribas, is Blocking Transfers to Coinbase Crypto Exchange

International French banking giant, BNP Paribas, is allegedly blocking funds transferred to Coinbase crypto exchange. According to one of the bank’s clients, this action began just recently given they could use BNP Paribas as an intermediary at the beginning of March.

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Exclusive: A Major French Bank Is Blocking Customers From Using Coinbase

Initial reports suggest that French bank BNP Paribas has blocked customers from transferring funds to Coinbase

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Just Revealed A Big Catalyst For Crypto’s Growth From 50 Million Users To 5 Billion

Crypto has crossed to an exciting tipping point. Whilst in the past it was mostly used by darknet criminals, crypto has now acquired a well-nigh universal appeal. It has become the go-to financial instrument for people in economically-struggling countries as well as to smart money investors like hedge funds and asset managers. At the moment, […]

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Blockchain-based data storage protocol Arweave raises $8.3M to push growth

Arweave, a blockchain-based storage protocol, today announced it has raised a further $8. 3 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures. These funds will be used to further Arweave community ecosystem initiatives.

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Coinbase App Users Can Now Send Crypto Funds to “.eth” Wallet Addresses

On February 26, 2020, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that it had added two new functionalities to its mobile app that enable users to send digital currencies using small and simple addresses instead of traditional long addresses.

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Data Shows $25 Billion Worth of Bitcoin and Ether Held by Seven Crypto Exchanges

On January 3, 2020, a small group of crypto enthusiasts celebrated the second annual Proof-of-Keys day with hopes to get people to withdraw funds from centralized digital currency exchanges. However, exchanges holding massive amounts of BTC only saw their reserves grow larger and data shows that Coinbase now holds 1 million BTC ($8.

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Nearly 1 million Bitcoins worth $8.4 billion now held in Coinbase’s cold storage wallets

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly holding nearly 1 million Bitcoin (BTC) in its cold storage wallets. While digital currency exchanges have been known to fake trading volume, it appears that the amount of funds held in offline storage provides a better picture.

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Coinbase Hands Nearly $1M to Cryptsy Victims After Settling Class Action Lawsuit

Coinbase will fork over $962,500 after settling a class action lawsuit which alleged Cryptsy founder Paul Vernon used the U.S. exchange to launder his victims' funds.

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What is Coinbase Custody and Coinbase Staking? Complete Beginner’s Guide

Coinbase Custody is a new service platform launched by Coinbase, geared to provide secure digital asset storage for institutional investors. This service is important for the fact that it opens a secure gateway for institutional investors and hedge funds to enter and operate in the cryptocurrency space.

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Coinbase Blocks Long-Con Hacking Attempt

After a handful of Coinbase employees received an email from Gregory Harris, the research grants administrator at the University of Cambridge, on May 30, many of them engaged in conversation with "Harris" for a few weeks.

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Digital Asset Manager Grayscale Moves $2.7 Billion to Custody with Coinbase

Coinspeaker Digital Asset Manager Grayscale Moves $2. 7 Billion to Custody with CoinbaseCoinbase Custody will serve as the custodian for Grayscale’s single-asset investment products including digital currencies and publicly listed funds such as Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, Grayscale Ethereum Trust, and Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust.

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Coinbase Unveils Plans to Launch Global ‘Captive’ Insurance Services

Coinspeaker Coinbase Unveils Plans to Launch Global ‘Captive’ Insurance ServicesCoinbase is involved in deep talks with Aon with an aim of creating a regulated ‘captive’ insurance company to shield its clients from hackings and unexpected loss of funds.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase suffer downtime as Cloudflare goes dark

Major web host Cloudflare has suffered a technical mishap that sent multiple cryptocurrency services – including Coinbase – into unexpected downtime. Cryptocurrency services known to have been affected include Bitfinex, Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, CoinMarketCap, and MyEtherWallet.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase suffer downtime as CloudFlare goes dark

Major web host CloudFlare has suffered a technical mishap that sent multiple cryptocurrency services – including Coinbase – into unexpected downtime. Cryptocurrency services known to have been affected include Bitfinex, Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, CoinMarketCap, and MyEtherWallet.

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Binance Coin (BNB) Bull Party May be Over, Flimsy Above $30

Binance Coin (BNB) under pressure, down 4. 2 percent Changpeng Zhao calls for caution After suffering an “expensive hack,” Changpeng Zhao considers exchange security as inviolable. Already fixed, Firefox could turned out to be a weak link from where hackers would have exploited Coinbase, causing loss of funds.

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Verizon User Loses Coinbase Funds Following SIM Hijack

There are numerous ways for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and speculators to lose their funds. In a lot of cases, this is due to an error on their part. However, there are external circumstances which often go beyond the user’s control.

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Coinbase Launches Crypto Debit Card in 6 European Countries

Coinbase Card is being made available in six new countries across Europe. The service enables users to spend their digital funds in-store and online, supporting all crypto assets available to trade on the Coinbase platform such as bitcoin cash.

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Coinbase Shares a Deep Dive Look Into the Recent Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Hard Fork

According to reports from the Coinbase team on May 15th, the team detected a structural depth 2 chain re-organization which took place within the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain. This particular re-organization specifically targetted Bitcoin Cash funds which were sent to a specific Segwit Bitcoin address.

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Coinbase CEO Points Out Crypto Winter Volumes Were Not So Chilly In South American Countries

“No Crypto Winter” In Latin America Coinbase CEO As Bitcoin (BTC) passes resistance level after level in 2019, it's safe to say that the crypto-winter is over. Now, many crypto enthusiasts and investors are looking forward to all round growth in Exchange-traded Funds (Etfs), halving spikes as well as institutional interests. The CEO of Coinbase, […]

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Coinbase Sides With Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Miners on 51% Attack Smack

By CCN: Coinbase researchers have released their own investigative findings into the recent Bitcoin Cash 51% attack controversy, and their conclusions might upset many Bitcoin maximalists. When Bitcoin Cash came under attack during a scheduled hardfork in mid-May, a group of miners colluded to reverse the attacked blocks and return misappropriated funds to their rightful owners.

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Huobi, Bitfinex, and other exchanges allegedly linked to laundering/mixing of Bitcoins

On 19 May, 2019, @Whale_Alert tweeted a transaction of 2000 BTCs between Bitfinex and an unknown wallet, which after in-depth research by a Twitter user, confirmed that it was linked with wash-trading, mixing and laundering of funds.

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“Crypto Spring” May Be Back, but Investors Should Remain Cautious

Is crypto spring finally here? Renowned venture capitalist and angel investor, Fred Wilson, believes it just may be, as he mentioned in a blog post, May 15, 2019. His fund, Union Square Ventures (USV), is one of the most significant private investment funds in the space and has funded the likes of Blockstack, Coinbase, PolychainRead MoreRead More.

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During Bullish April, Fiat-to-Crypto Exchanges Outperform Crypto-to-Crypto

In its April 2019 Exchange Review, released on May 20, 2019, London-based crypto data analysis firm CryptoCompare found that fiat-to-crypto exchanges performed much better than crypto-to-crypto platforms did over the last month, as cryptocurrency prices rose across the board.

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Coinbase reveals steps taken to tackle MakerDAO vulnerability without incurring loss of funds

Maker Foundation, the organization behind the development of the MakerDAO ecosystem, recently announced that the team had discovered a critical vulnerability in its voting contracts, in collaboration with Coinbase and Zeppelin.

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Coinbase CEO Walks the Crypto Plank for Endorsing USDC After Bitfinex/Tether Drama, 1.1 Million USDC Minted

The Bitfinex/Tether episode has eroded a lot of the trust of the community in stablecoins. Tether, which used to have its assets backed 1:1 with USD in order to make prices stable, used some of its funds to loan money to Bitfinex, which shares the same owners. The episode was a scandal in the industry. […]

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XYO Network’s Token Now Can Be Deposited and Withdrawn with Coinbase Custody

Coinbase Custody Adds XYO Token for Deposits And Withdrawals in Big Move for the Blockchain Location Coin The purpose of Coinbase Custody is to offer offline custody support in a full-service, insured, and regulated atmosphere for users.

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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live

Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.

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