This report shows how key characteristics of the global cryptocurrencies trading landscape are now maturing to a level at which real-money institutional investors are becoming incentivised to actively place end-investor capital into the marketplace.
However, institutional investor cryptocurrency trading interests are only represented in the overall crypto marketplace in 2018 by a small number of so-called crypto hedge funds, and real-money industry risk-taking activity is stymied by a lack of trusted cryptocurrency-centric custody offerings from established providers combined with a fragmented liquidity picture and a patchwork quilt of global regulatory mandates.