Digital asset management giant Grayscale registered over $254 million in total investment into its products in the third quarter of 2019.In its Digital Asset Investment Report for Q3 2019, Grayscale provided details on the inflows into its products for the period from July 1, 2019 through Sept. 30, 2019.
The third quarter of the year marked the highest demand for the company's offerings since its establishment, resulting in $254.9 million of inflows.
The figure shows a threefold quarter-on-quarter increase, from $84.8 million last quarter.
The quarterly inflows into Grayscale Bitcoin Trust amounted to $171.1 million, wherein July was the month with the highest level of inflows during Q3. As reported in July, Grayscale Bitcoin trust outperformed indices in the first half of 2019, up almost 300% on the year at the time.
Domination of institutional investorsInstitutional investors were the major contributors to the company's products both in Q3 and year-to-date, with 84% and 83% respectively.
Worth noting, total investments into Grayscale products from Jan. 1, 2019 through Sept. 30, 2019 amounted to $382.3 million, while the figure over the past 12 months is $412.3 million.
Previously, Grayscale's director of sales and business development Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary stated that institutional investors are constantly piling into the space in 2019.
"You know, it's really funny, I get asked this a lot - there's this rhetoric in the media about when are institutional investors going to get involved, when are they going to start investing, and it's so funny because it's ironic. We see institutional investors invest with us all the time and that's been the case for a long time now."
Ahead of conquering the marketOn Oct. 14, Grayscale Investments was approved by the United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to publicly quote its Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund on over-the-counter markets.
This purportedly enables the first publicly-quoted security based on a selection of digital currencies in the U.S.In August, Cointelegraph reported that Grayscale was going to move almost $3 billion worth of its digital currency holdings to American major crypto wallet provider and exchange Coinbase.
Grayscale: Q3 Saw Record High Inflows, Growing Institutional Interest
pubblicato su Oct 15, 2019
by Cointele | pubblicato su Coinage
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