What is the need for investment in Cryptocurrencies?
Are you holding 1 Bitcoin or at least 1 Satoshi ( Tiny unit of bitcoin )? At least, Have you ever heard of ‘Bitcoins’? No ? Then you are missing the greatest investment opportunity of your lifetime. This is what anyone who is holding bitcoins will say to you. Why is this bitcoin has gone so crazy? You might wonder why so many investors or speculators are running very hard to buy bitcoins. The reason is very simple.
In October 2017, the value of 1 bitcoin has crossed 5000 USD for the first time since its creation. It has achieved a growth of 4 times or 400% in a span of just 10 months. (In Jan 2017, the value of 1 BTC was 1000 USD). Now, you can really understand why people are going crazy behind bitcoins.
Currently, most of the bitcoin holders are either RIIs (Retail Individual Investors ) or Non-Institutional Investors (NIIs) and their investment capacity have a maximum threshold.
Why are cryptocurrencies not suitable for institutional investors?
The recent exponential growth of BTC has greatly increased the interest of many institutional investors who now consider bitcoin as a valuable asset. Who are institutional investors? To put it simply, institutional investors are usually the big people in any trade market. The list includes banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, investment companies, hedge funds etc. Even though they consider bitcoins as a valuable asset and ready to invest in them, they are not able to proceed further. Why? Given below are the list of drawbacks in bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
- BTC and other cryptocurrencies do not follow any regulations or standards.
- Cryptocurrencies do not provide any ownership certificate.
- Risks of settlement.
- No Judicial governance in case of serious issues.
- The possibility of theft by hackers or other means.
How to make the bitcoin investment suitable for institutional investors?
CyberTrust S.A, a company headquartered in Luxembourg (An European country) is developing an exclusive cryptocurrency based banking platform for institutional investors to buy, short and sell cryptocurrencies. The first phase of this project will the popular cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ether and Bitcoin cash. Later on, it will be expanded to other cryptocurrencies.
Refer the whitepaper https://www.cybertrust.io/CyberTrust-WhitePaper.pdf to learn more about the following topics.
- Crypto Securitisation
- In memory data grids (IMDG)
- Integration with existing financial markets
- Vault Technology
- Crypto Derivative
CyberTrust will be releasing a new token named CABS (Crypto-Asset Backed Securitised) tokens during its token sale starting in November 2017. These tokens based on Ethereum ERC -20 will be used to convert the digital assets to crypto securities using their proprietary platform. CABS tokens can be easily acquired using any fiat currency or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether or Bitcoin Cash. Check out https://www.cybertrust.io/ to get more information about the following:
- Benefits of CABS token
- Token Sale
- Sale Terms of CABS token
- Roadmap of CyberTrust