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2024 Bitcoin Halving:
One Year Later
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2024 Bitcoin Halving:
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Identifying Phishing, Fraud, and Other Scams
Social Engineering Guardrails
May 20, 2025 • 7 min read
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Q1 2025 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be affecting price and investor sentiment
April 28, 2025 • 60 min read
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Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade:
What Should Investors Know?
Education and Insights
April 14, 2025 • 15 min read
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Is Bitcoin Set for Further Price Discovery?
Education and Insights
March 19, 2025 • 6 min read
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Bitcoin Price Phases:
Navigating Bitcoin’s Volatility Trends
Education and Insights
February 24, 2025 • 12 min read
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The Lightning Network:
Expanding Bitcoin Use Cases
Moving beyond one-to-one payments
February 19, 2025 • 21 min read
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Q4 2024 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be affecting price and investor sentiment
January 29, 2025 • 60 min read
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2025 Look Ahead
Is it “too late” to enter digital assets?
January 7, 2025 • 60 min read
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Coin Report: Bitcoin (BTC)
An overview of Bitcoin and its potential use cases
December 6, 2024 • 47 min read
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Coin Report: Ethereum (ETH)
An overview of Ethereum and its potential use cases
December 6, 2024 • 38 min read
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Bitcoin’s Potential as a Leading Macro Asset
Education and Insights
November 13, 2024 • 9 min read
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Bitcoin’s Evolving Role as an Alternative Investment
Understanding where bitcoin can fit in a portfolio
October 30, 2024 • 30 min read
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Top 3 FAQs for Advisors
Learn which digital asset questions financial advisors hear most
October 22, 2024 • 5 min read
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Q3 2024 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be affecting price and investor sentiment
October 18, 2024 • 30 min read
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Research Round-Up: August 2024
A closer look at the current state of Ethereum
September 18, 2024 • 3 min read • 3 min view
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How Ether May Add Value to a Portfolio
Education and Insights
September 10, 2024 • 16 min read
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Ethereum Improvement Proposals:
5 Insights for Institutional Investors
An overview of Ethereum’s protocol, updates, and notable EIPs
August 21, 2024 • 7 min read
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Research Round-Up: July 2024
Bitcoin 2024 Conference news and the launch of spot ether ETPs
August 15, 2024 • 3 min read • 5 min view
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Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets
Similarities to the evolution of commodities
July 31, 2024 • 15 min read
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An Overview of Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BitVM)
Education and Insights
July 22, 2024 • 10 min read
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Q2 2024 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be affecting price and investor sentiment
July 17, 2024 • 35 min read
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Coin Report: Litecoin (LTC)
An overview of Litecoin and its potential use cases
July 17, 2024 • 18 min read
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Comparing Monolithic vs.
Modular Blockchains
Education and Insights
July 8, 2024 • 15 min read
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Adding Bitcoin to a Corporate Treasury
Education and Insights
June 26, 2024 • 18 min read
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Research Round-Up: May 2024
An update on digital asset ETPs and other developments
June 11, 2024 • 15 min read
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Bitcoin vs. Altcoins:
A 5-Step Guide
How they compare and differ
May 31, 2024 • 6 min read
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2023 Institutional Investor
Digital Assets Study
An annual update on investors’ perceptions of digital assets
May 30, 2024 • 20 min read
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Research Round-Up: April 2024
What we are observing now that the halving countdown has reset
May 15, 2024 • 1 min read • 5 min view
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A Closer Look at Bitcoin’s Volatility
Education and Insights
May 1, 2024 • 15 min read
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2024 Bitcoin Halving:
Top 5 FAQs
Answering common Bitcoin halving questions
April 25, 2024 • 6 min read
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Q1 2024 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be affecting price and investor sentiment
April 22, 2024 • 30 min read
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Introduction to Channel Splicing on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Education and Insights
April 5, 2024 • 15 min read
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Validator Set Concerns and
Proposed Solutions
Education and Insights
March 27, 2024 • 9 min read
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Research Round-Up: February 2024
Exploring the 2024 halving and Deneb-Cancun upgrade
March 11, 2024 • 1 min read • 28 min view
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Deneb-Cancun Upgrade
Education and Insights
March 6, 2024 • 17 min read
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The Economics of a Bitcoin Halving:
A Miner’s Perspective
Education and Insights
March 4, 2024 • 22 min read
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Channels for Exposure to Bitcoin Revisited
An updated look at different options for bitcoin exposure
February 29, 2024 • 22 min read
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Bitcoin as an Aspirational Store of Value Revisited
An updated look at Bitcoin as a store of value
February 28, 2024 • 24 min read
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Addressing Ethereum Risks and Criticisms
Education and Insights
February 27, 2024 • 18 min read
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Research Round-Up: January 2024
Spot bitcoin ETPs approved and other top stories
February 8, 2024 • 30 min read • 27 min view
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Q4 2023 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be impacting price and investor sentiment
February 7, 2024 • 30 min read
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2024 Digital Assets Look Ahead
Bear market building may accelerate growth
January 12, 2024 • 40 min read
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Understanding Bitcoin and Ethereum Supply
Education and Insights
November 28, 2023 • 15 min read
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Introduction to Digital Assets
A guide to digital assets and the investment landscape for institutions
November 20, 2023 • 15 min read
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Understanding Proof-of-Work
A nontechnical introduction to bitcoin mining and its implications for investors
November 15, 2023 • 60 min read
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Revisiting Persistent Bitcoin Criticisms
An updated response to common Bitcoin criticisms
November 3, 2023 • 27 min read
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Q3 2023 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be impacting price and investor sentiment
October 20, 2023 • 25 min read
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Fees Explained
Education and Insights
October 9, 2023 • 11 min read
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Bitcoin First Revisited
Why investors need to consider bitcoin separately from other digital assets
October 4, 2023 • 40 min read
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MiCA
The EU’s path to digital assets regulation
September 14, 2023 • 14 min read
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The Omnibus Model for Custody Revisited
How and why digital asset custodians apply the omnibus model to securing customer assets
September 6, 2023 • 32 min read
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Ethereum Investment Thesis
Ethereum’s potential as digital money and a yield-bearing asset
August 30, 2023 • 1 min read • 55 min view
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Building on Bitcoin
Education and Insights
July 27, 2023 • 22 min read
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Q2 2023 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be impacting price and investor sentiment
July 18, 2023 • 22 min read
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Understanding the Bitcoin Halving
Education and Insights
June 27, 2023 • 18 min read
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Shanghai/Capella Rehashed
Education and Insights
June 8, 2023 • 9 min read
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The Rise of Layer 2 Scaling on Ethereum
Education and Insights
May 11, 2023 • 12 min read
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Q&A: Bitcoin Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Digital Artifacts
Education and Insights
April 20, 2023 • 17 min read
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Q1 2023 Signals Report
A quarterly breakdown of key market metrics that could be impacting price and investor sentiment
April 19, 2023 • 21 min read
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Review of Upcoming Ethereum Shanghai/Capella Upgrade
Education and Insights
April 5, 2023 • 17 min read
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Bitcoin — Keeping Proof of Work Decentralized
Education and Insights
March 15, 2023 • 22 min read
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2023 Look Ahead
Refocusing and building on digital assets’ core principles
January 24, 2023 • 27 min read • 31 min view
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Ethereum's Bid to Scale and Remain Decentralized
Ethereum censorship, MEV-boost, and what’s next for the ecosystem
December 15, 2022 • 11 min read
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Applying Machine Learning Portfolio Modeling to Bitcoin
New modeling techniques to evaluate Bitcoin in a multi-asset class portfolio
November 11, 2022 • 4 min read • 18 min view
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2022 Institutional Investor Digital Assets Study
A first look at the results of our annual survey of institutional investors
October 27, 2022 • 16 min read
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Ethereum: The Basics
The first programmable blockchain
October 17, 2022 • 5 min read
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Ethereum vs. Bitcoin
How do they compare?
October 14, 2022 • 5 min read
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The Rising Dollar and Bitcoin
How the rising dollar could impact global currency markets and how bitcoin could be considered portfolio insurance
October 10, 2022 • 10 min read
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Ethereum Staking
What to expect after The Merge
October 9, 2022 • 5 min read
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A New Era for ETH
An ex-post analysis of The Ethereum Merge
September 27, 2022 • 12 min read
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The Ethereum Merge
What to expect from the biggest protocol change to the world’s second-largest digital asset
September 7, 2022 • 20 min read
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The Value Exchange: Valuing Bitcoin
Featuring insights from Fidelity Investments' Jurrien Timmer, Director of Global Macro
August 2, 2022 • 2 min read • 26 min view
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About Ethereum
Advancing blockchain with smart contracts and decentralized applications
May 31, 2022 • 30 min read
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Valuing Bitcoin
Modeling the price of bitcoin as a monetary asset through market forces
May 30, 2022 • 16 min read
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Is Bitcoin Becoming an Anchor of Value?
Learn why Terra is making multi-billion dollar Bitcoin purchases
April 7, 2022 • 11 min read
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Bitcoin First
Why investors need to consider bitcoin separately from other digital assets
January 31, 2022 • 36 min read
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Digital Assets and Commodities: A Comparison of Institutional Portfolio Allocation
The digital asset market and the maturation of the commodity markets show striking similarities
December 2, 2021 • 19 min read
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Getting Off Zero: Bitcoin's Role in Modern Investment Portfolios
The impact of bitcoin on a portfolio
October 1, 2021 • 29 min read
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2021 Institutional Investor Digital Assets Study
A preview and available download of our survey analysis.
September 13, 2021 • 26 min read
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Channels for Exposure to Bitcoin
The benefits and challenges of the channels institutional investors may consider to make an allocation to bitcoin
July 16, 2021 • 17 min read
Updates
Enhancing Institutional Digital Asset Trading with Clearing and Settlement Services
Fidelity Digital Assets will work with TP ICAP to deliver clearing and settlement capabilities
June 30, 2021 • 5 min read
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Applying Sub-Custody to Digital Assets
The benefits and considerations of digital asset sub-custody
April 29, 2021 • 12 min read
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2020 Bitcoin Retrospective
A look at the most important bitcoin market trends of 2020
January 28, 2021 • 22 min read
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Why Corporate Treasurers May Consider Bitcoin
In this piece, we examine the risks corporate treasurers face as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and historic fiscal and monetary policy expansion, and why they may consider a balance sheet allocation to bitcoin
December 10, 2020 • 11 min read
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Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms
In this piece, we share an updated response to common Bitcoin criticisms given the increased attention on Bitcoin
November 13, 2020 • 14 min read
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Bitcoin Investment Thesis: Bitcoin's Role as an Alternative Investment
In the second part of our “Bitcoin Investment Thesis” series, we explore bitcoin’s role as an alternative investment that may provide portfolio optimization benefits
October 12, 2020 • 27 min read
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The Role of Prime Brokerage in Digital Assets
The emerging digital asset industry is looking to adopt the prime model to service a new wave of institutional clients. While digital asset prime may not settle on identical solutions provided by traditional prime, it will be rooted in an identical purpose – a master relationship that facilitates access to all relevant products, markets, and service providers
October 1, 2020 • 15 min read
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The OCC Authorizes Cryptocurrency Custody
In this piece, we explain the OCC’s interpretive letter authorizing the custody of digital assets by national banks as well as the implications and considerations
August 25, 2020 • 10 min read
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Bitcoin Investment Thesis: Bitcoin as an Aspirational Store of Value System
A preview and available download of the first installment of our Bitcoin Investment Theses series – Bitcoin as a Store of Value
July 28, 2020 • 19 min read
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Institutional Digital Asset Survey Report
A preview and available download of our survey analysis — “A Review of the Institutional Investors Digital Assets Study (Phase II)”
June 15, 2020 • 16 min read
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Applying the SOC Framework to Digital Assets
The interest in attaining SOC reports has been driven by the recognition that the reports disclose important information
March 19, 2020 • 18 min read
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The Omnibus Model for Custody
Learn about the origins of the omnibus custody model in traditional finance and explore how and why digital asset custodians apply the omnibus model to securing customer assets