Bitgo Obtains $100M Insurance Policy to Cover Crypto Assets

Cryptocurrency wallet service provider Bitgo has secured a $100 million policy through Lloyd’s insurance to cover crypto assets that are completely under the company’s control, such as those held in its business wallet and custody offerings. The policy covers issues like insider theft by employees, loss or damage of private keys and hacks. Also read: Survey … Read more

On.Live Is Pleased to Announce That ONL Token Holders Can Now Use Bitgo’s Industry-Leading Wallet and Custodial Offerings

BitGo is the market leader in digital asset financial services providing security, compliance, custodial, liquidity solutions for institutional investors. BitGo is the world’s largest processor of on-chain bitcoin transactions, processing 15% of global Bitcoin transactions and $15 billion per month across all cryptocurrencies. In 2018, BitGo introduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, the … Read more

The Wrapped Bitcoin Project Has Officially Launched on Ethereum

On Jan. 30, a group of cryptocurrency developers and organizations officially launched a project called Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) on the Ethereum network. The ERC20 token is a coin backed by bitcoin core (BTC) reserves and has started trading on several exchange platforms. Also read: A Look at Openbazaar’s Multi-Currency Wallet and Vendor Listings The Introduction of … Read more

OTC Desks Proliferate as Volume Shifts From Spot Markets

While trading volume on the top cryptocurrency exchanges declined dramatically during the second half of 2018, all signs suggest that over-the-counter (OTC) markets are now attracting increasing liquidity, with a number of prominent cryptocurrency exchanges entering the OTC space. Additionally, several major existing OTC desks have recently spoken of experiencing significant growth in trade volume. … Read more

Custodial Bitgo Clients Can Now Access Genesis Global’s OTC Pools

On Wednesday, cryptocurrency custodial service Bitgo and over-the-counter (OTC) brokerage house Genesis Global announced a partnership to provide fast and secure trades directly from Genesis’ cold storage solution. Essentially, institutional investors who store their assets with Bitgo will be able to access cryptocurrency quotes in a high-frequency fashion similar to acquiring stocks or equities from … Read more

Wrapped Bitcoin Is Coming to Ethereum

Bitcoin core is poised to make its Ethereum debut. An initiative involving several decentralized exchanges (DEXs) as well as crypto-custodians Bitgo will see BTC become WBTC, with the W standing for “wrapped.” When WBTC launches in January 2019, it will enable ethereum-based bitcoin to be traded on DEXs, boosting liquidity and opening the Ethereum ecosystem … Read more

The Daily: Goldman Sachs Invests in Wallet, Institutional Traders Borrow $553M

In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about the latest investment in the cryptocurrency space by Goldman Sachs, the amount institutional traders borrowed in the last six months from just one OTC desk, research on state-sponsored hackers, and a new security tool from Coinbase. Also Read: Security Giant G4S Offers Protected Offline Cryptocurrency … Read more

Goldman Sachs and Novogratz Participate in Bitgo’s $58 Million Series B Funding

The race for the cryptocurrency custodial king is quickly heating up. Just days after Fidelity Investments announced that it would offer crypto security and storage services, BitGo has announced the closing of its Series B funding round. The startup offers crypto custody solutions through its BitGo Trust subsidiary. The $58.5 million round saw participation from … Read more

$10 Trillion US Exchange Takes a Step Toward Crypto: Nasdaq Bids for Cinnober

News wires buzzed this week when the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq) announced its pending purchase of Swedish crypto-friendly stock exchange Cinnober. Nasdaq made “an USD 190m all cash recommended public offer” to the exchange, which it terms a major “financial technology provider to brokers, exchanges and clearing houses worldwide.” It could … Read more