Online broker Robinhood has added support for cryptocurrency trusts by Grayscale Investments, based on Bitcoin and Ethereum.
App users can purchase Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) units. As of May 6, 2022, the former managed assets valued at $23.05 billion, while the latter managed $8.29 billion.
GBTC and ETHE are products that give investors access to cryptocurrencies without the need to purchase digital assets directly. Grayscale charges clients 2% commission for managing trusts.
Over the past year, shares of these structures have traded at a significant discount. NAV. At the time of writing, GBTC has a 24.83% discount and ETHE has a 26.69% discount.
Grayscale hopes to solve this problem by turning trusts into exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Earlier, the company’s president, Michael Sonnenschein, described this task as a top priority.
Recall that in April 2022, Grayscale Investments stated that the approval of Teucrium’s bitcoin futures ETF was the basis for a similar decision on the company’s own application.
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