This report aims to provide an overview of the blockchain ecosystem and highlight some of the available investment opportunities. It also includes guidance on how family offices can allocate their portfolios, and ensure safe and secure custodial ownership of digital assets.

Custodians play an important role in the institutional adoption of digital assets. They safekeep the digital assets of financial institutions, digital asset organizations, and corporations. These are the 10 Foundational Principles that highlight the importance of licensed professional custodians.

Our Managing Director, Calvin Shen, shares his views on Custody 3.0: how the evolution of digital asset markets and growing demand for institutional participation in the decentralized economy is shaping the role of the digital asset custodian.

Our Head of Financing, Dario Capodici, shares his views on the alternative investment opportunities that DeFi offers in times of financial instability and macroeconomic concerns: money market protocols, liquidity staking and yield farming.

Our Head of Marketing, Joe Caselin, shares his take on how the stablecoin sector is presenting huge implications for the broader digital asset industry.

Head of Trading Rolland Hoang shares his views on what the digital asset market has in store for us in 2022 across regulated DeFi, stablecoins, Layer 1 protocols, and the convergence with traditional financial markets.

Bringing the metaverse to life could be a market opportunity worth over $1 trillion. That’s one of the key takeaways from Grayscale’s November report which explores the massive potential of the Web 3.0 internet evolution currently underway.

It’s safe to say that digital assets are becoming more ubiquitous every day as the underlying technology is upgraded and applied to a rapidly increasing number of use cases, including tokenized securities, NFT-based art, and GameFi to name but a few.

There has never been a stronger drive behind the adoption of digital assets, with institutional investors in particular eager to integrate the new asset class into their operations.