Crypto360 Spotlight FIDELITY Bitcoin First: Bitcoin is the store of value asset in an increasingly digital world
The Digital Assets division of the $11+ trillion-dollar financial powerhouse, Fidelity Investments, released their January 2022 research report on the Digital Assets Market, dubbed Bitcoin First: Why Investors need to consider bitcoin separately from other digital assets.
The widely circulated report provides the industry some insight into both how Fidelity views Bitcoin and the overall digital assets landscape, and probably more importantly, how Fidelity will be positioning Bitcoin and other digital assets in their institutional and retail client portfolios, as they leverage their massive global footprint with over $4 trillion of discretionary assets with their 83+ million clients.
Key highlights are as follows:
- Fidelity validates Bitcoin as a (or actually the) monetary good and the store of value in the digital ecosystem, due to many reasons but supply scarcity and broad retail and institutional adoption are key underlying reasons.
- Other digital asset plays such as DeFi, Staking, NFTs, Metaverse, etc. should all operate (and priced/valued) separately from Bitcoin as their ecosystems in many ways are not necessarily related to Bitcoin as a store of value.
- STONEGATE GLOBAL’S PERSPECTIVE: In our opinion, this report is a clear indication that Fidelity has now “validated” Bitcoin as being the store of value in the digital asset ecosystem and in the new digital economy.
- STONEGATE GLOBAL’S SUMMARY: It stands to reason that in leveraging its global footprint, Fidelity would seemingly begin integrating Bitcoin (and potentially other digital assets to a lesser degree) with its Digital Assets division into its traditional institutional and retail client portfolios across Fidelity’s overall asset management business. Simply stated this is a significant milestone that will continue to have a major impact on Bitcoin and the overall digital asset market.
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John McCorvey, CEO – Stonegate Global