#9: Custody Solutions and Infrastructure, Family Offices, and How Funds Should Educate Their Analysts on Crypto

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 9 a.m.

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In this episode, we talk about our experience at the Crypto Hedge Fund Summit in New York, and what we learned about custody solutions and infrastructure being built for institutional investors. We go over what a family office is and how they differ from institutional investors. We discuss how important custody is and why. We also break out a multi-point thesis for how funds should think about educating their managers and analysts on the crypto space.

Topics:

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  • Recap of Crypto Hedge Fund Summit
    - Definition of a family offices into family member
    - Family offices doing OTC trading of Bitcoin
    - Crypto custody and infrastructure
    - State of Blockchain Q2 report
    - Traditional investing versus crypto
    - Kinds of buckets people should care about
    - Things you should do when running a crypto fund
  • Real time auction versus high usage ETH contracts
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    - Alexander Vinnik extradition request to Russia from Greece approved
    - Top US banks have paid $243 billion in fines since 2008
    - Wallet bug causes theft at Altex
    - GH PRs referenced
    - Scam wallets

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