- Goldman Sachs confirmed it will offer a “full spectrum” of investments in bitcoin and digital assets to wealth management clients “through physical bitcoin, derivatives or traditional investment vehicles”
- Morgan Stanley confirmed that it would offer of Bitcoin exposure to its high net worth clients
- JPMorgan endorsed allocation to Bitcoin to improve risk-adjusted returns in multi-asset portfolios
- Deutsche Bank published a research paper declaring Bitcoin “too important to ignore”
- Citi published a 108 page report stating that Bitcoin is “at a tipping point”
- Nickel Digital launched its fourth fund, Digital Leaders Altcoin Fund, offering access to the DeFi space
- Soros Fund Management declared an “inflection point” in digital assets, investing in infrastructure
- BNY Mellon published an investment report focused on various different Bitcoin valuation models
- PayPal officially integrated digital assets as a payment option, and acquired crypto custodians Curv
- VISA completed the first stablecoin payments on their network, with the Ethereum-based USDC token
- Fidelity published an “understanding Bitcoin” note for investors, and filed to launch a Bitcoin ETF
- BlackRock SEC filings revealed trading of Bitcoin futures by its Global Allocation Fund
- Tesla enabled Bitcoin as method of payment, and announced plans to hold this Bitcoin long-term
- One River Digital Asset Management hired former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton to a new advisory board
- Galaxy Digital reported 1,100% year-on-year income growth, announcing plans to go public in 2021
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank issued Japan’s first tokenised securities, enabling Security Token Offerings
- Coinbase registered 114.9m shares for its direct listing, and hired former SEC Director Brett Redfearn
- Digital Yuan policy discussions featured at China’s annual “two sessions” meeting of lawmakers
- Kjell Inge Rokke, Norway’s second-richest man, set up a business unit dedicated to Bitcoin
- Gerber Kawasaki began investing in digital assets, stating the asset class “could be incredibly lucrative”
- Bloomberg senior strategist declared Bitcoin is “replacing gold as a store of value in investor portfolios”
- Deutsche Boerse listed two Ethereum ETPs, citing previous enthusiasm for Bitcoin ETNs
- KiwiSaver Growth Strategy, a New Zealand pension fund, invested 5% of its portfolio into Bitcoin
- Sotheby’s followed Christie’s lead, listing a Non-Fungible Token for auction as NFT growth accelerated
- CME Group announced the creation of new “Micro Bitcoin Futures” contracts
- NYDIG secured $200m equity funding from MassMutual, Morgan Stanley, and Soros Fund Management
- Bank of Japan formed a committee dedicated to implementation of a central bank digital currency
- Oaktree Capital founder Howard Marks converted from Bitcoin sceptic to a Bitcoin advocate
- The Bank of Russia officially announced plans to trial a Digital Rouble next year
- Jim Cramer, CNBC host, dropped half his portfolio’s gold allocation for Bitcoin
- Bitcoin network miners earned record monthly revenues of over $1.51bn
- Bitcoin’s market cap exceeded $1tn for the first time during March as Bitcoin’s value passed $60,000
- Ethereum approached its all-time high, with a monthly open and close of $1,439 and $1,919
- The total market value of digital assets grew from $1.4tn to $2.0tn, $200bn above February’s record