DeFi focused: Grayscale exploring 13 more crypto assets for its trusts

DeFi focused: Grayscale exploring 13 more crypto assets for its trusts

Institutional asset manager Grayscale has announced 13 more crypto assets are currently under consideration for its suite of crypto investment trust products.

Revealed on June 18, the prospective assets mainly represent the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, including 1inch, Bancor, Curve, Kava, Kyber Network, Loopring, Polygon, Ren, Universal Market Access, and 0x.

Our top trading bots

The native tokens of high-speed scalable blockchain networks Solana, Near, and Dfinity have also been added to Grayscale’s list of considered cryptocurrencies.

The new additions bring the total number of assets being explored by Grayscale to 31. Grayscale currently offers products tracking the performance of 13 different assets. 

Grayscale emphasizes that “not every asset under consideration will be turned into one of [its] investment products,” and that certainly appears to have been the case for previously announced assets under consideration such as Cardano, Eos, and Tezos.

Grayscale did introduce five new trusts on March 17, launching products for Basic Attention Token, Chainlink, Decentraland, Filecoin, and Livepeer. These five trusts currently represent just 0.1% of Grayscale’s $34.4 billion in assets under management (AUM).

According to CoinShares, Grayscale’s trusts represent 75% of a total of $44.3 billion worth of assets managed in institutional crypto investment products.

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust represents 73% of Grayscale’s total AUM (and more than 56% of the combined assets managed in crypto investment products broadly.)

Related: Bitcoin sell pressure may hit zero in July thanks to Grayscale’s giant 16K BTC unlocking

The firm’s Ethereum Trust has also seen growth this year, representing nearly 22% of managed capital. All other trusts managed by Grayscale represent roughly 5% of the company’s AUM combined.

More than $2.3 billion has been invested in Grayscale’s trusts since the start of 2021.

Keep reading with Cointelegraph
These tokens saw the biggest trading volume pumps last week. How could traders benefit?
An uptick in trading volume is one of the key components of a digital asset’s healthy market outlook. It indicates both robust liquidity and a surge in...
AWS outage hits dYdX raising concerns over decentralization
An Amazon Web Service (AWS) outage on Dec. 7 forced the decentralized exchange dYdX to halt operations, raising questions over the reliance on centralized...
DEXs growing faster than CEXs but Binance still sees 171M visitors in a month
A new Chainalysis report shows that the number of decentralized exchanges (DEXs) is growing faster than all other types of crypto exchanges. But Similar...
The International Chess Federation is first global sports association with its own NFT marketplace
Digitalization keeps on coming to one of the oldest games in the world as FIDE, the International Chess Federation, announces its plans for a nonfungible...
New Australian crypto legislation likely in 2022, Senator Bragg tells NFT Fest
Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has told a local industry event that Australia’s digital asset plan to create cryptocurrency-related legislation is “coming”...
NFT marketplace Metaplex hires former Google dev as CEO, appoints advisory board
Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace Metaplex has hired a new CEO and appointed an advisory board comprising some of crypto’s most influential voices, setting...
Dreading September? Bitcoin price hopes to break the slump trend
Bitcoin (BTC) has been struggling to break the $50,000 mark for over 10 days now. However, on Sept. 2, the premium cryptocurrency briefly surpassed the...
State Street-backed Securrency partners with GK8 for custody and institutional blockchain infrastructure
GK8, a cybersecurity and digital asset custodian, has partnered with fintech company Securrency to provide banking clients with institutional-grade blockchain...
The radical need for updating blockchain security protocols
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is here to stay with over $100 billion in total value locked (TVL), highlighting the evidence of faith in these new financial...
Is there a right way to regulate crypto? Yes, and this is how
Cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly mainstream. Between the entrance en masse of traditional financial institutions — from investment funds, to banks,...
Cardano Climbs 10% In a Green Day
Investing.com - Cardano was trading at $1.798745 by 20:43 (00:43 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Wednesday, up 10.07% on the day. It was the largest...
Ethereum Climbs 10% In a Green Day
Investing.com - Ethereum was trading at $3,467.32 by 07:36 (11:36 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Tuesday, up 10.13% on the day. It was the largest one-day...
Former Apple Music exec joins crypto firm Ledger as head of NFT division
Apple Music veteran Parker Todd Brooks is leaving the company to join Ledger, one of the biggest providers of cryptocurrency hardware wallets.According...
Ripple appoints former Uber exec to lead Southeast Asian expansion
Ripple has appointed a former Uber executive to lead its expansion into the Southeast Asia region, the firm announced on March 18. Brooks Entwistle joins...
New Rhythm for Crypto: the Virtual Currency Girls
The popularity of cryptocurrency in the Land of the Rising Sun is gaining momentum. A new musical band called «Virtual Currency Girls» has appeared in...