- Goldman Sachs will begin dealing bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forwards in March
- Tesla invested $1.5bn in bitcoin and disclosed plans to accept it as a means of payment
- The Economist wrote that “the corporate world is taking notice” of digital assets
- BNY Mellon, America’s oldest bank, announced the development of a digital asset custody platform
- JPMorgan‘s co-president Daniel Pinto declared “the demand will be there” for the bank to offer bitcoin
- Deutsche Bank confirms creation of a crypto trading & custody platform for institutional investors
- Mastercard plans to integrate crypto assets into payment network, as “trend is unmistakable”
- CalPERS, the US largest pension fund, increased investments in cryptocurrency mining companies
- CME Group Chief Economist Bluford Putnam dubbed bitcoin “an emerging competitor to gold”
- Morgan Stanley’s $150bn Counterpoint Global fund announced exploration of bitcoin
- US Federal Reserve hired digital asset specialist Sunayna Tuteja as its first Chief Innovation Officer
- Microstrategy raised $1bn through convertible senior notes with immediate allocation to Bitcoin
- Square reported 9-fold growth in Bitcoin sales, and invested an additional $170m into Bitcoin
- Christie’s Auction House listed a blockchain-based Non-Fungible Token artwork for the first time
- CME Ether Futures began trading with over $33m in volume on their first day of trading
- Elon Musk endorsed Bitcoin, saying it’s “on the verge of... acceptance by conventional finance people”
- Bitcoin for Corporations virtual conference attracted over 1.400 companies, including Tesla
- Amazon recruited for development of a digital currency payment pilot program in emerging markets
- Tencent and Alibaba-backed private banks WeBank and MYBank join China’s national CBDC trial
- SBI Holdings declared M&A plans to make crypto assets a core pillar of profitability
- Coinbase traded on NASDAQ private markets ahead of listing, with an implied valuation of $100bn
- Scott Minerd, CIO of Guggenheim says aggressive monetary policies may push bitcoin to $600,000
- Bill Miller’s flagship Miller Opportunity Trust fund files for $400m Bitcoin investment
- Kraken, an American crypto asset exchange, saw its valuation double to approximately $10bn
- Purpose Bitcoin ETF launched in Canada, becoming the most-traded ETF on its first day
- China extended their national CBDC trial to Beijing for Lunar New Year celebrations
- Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami, announces plans to pass favourable legislation for digital assets
- Rabobank completed the first ever real-time blockchain-based commercial paper transactions
- SDAX receives Singaporean regulatory approval to launch a tokenised digital asset exchange
- Bitcoin network miners earned record weekly revenues of $354m
- Bitcoin’s market cap exceeded $1tn for the first time during February
- Ethereum reached an all-time high of over $2,000, before consolidating on a lower level
- The market capitalisation of digital assets grew from $975bn to $1.4 trillion, at one point reaching an intramonth level of $1.7 trillion. Bitcoin is +36% in February 2021 and +55% YTD (February 28, 2021)