Government President of HashKey Group, Michel Lee shares his high digital asset developments and alternatives to observe in 2021.
Past Bitcoin: Exploring new devices and alternatives
Digital belongings has extra than simply digital currencies. Custody, buying and selling platforms and safety options are different funding alternatives for institutional buyers in digital belongings. Bitcoin excessive costs are a purple herring – that is akin to foreign money hypothesis within the highlight however there may be numerous different innovation happening. Traders actually ought to look out for attention-grabbing tokenization functions. Take a look at the instance of the $600 million luxurious lodge within the Mayfair district of London that was tokenized by a consortium of Gulf households. Safety tokens, that are additionally known as digital securities have already seen success with actual property, fairness, funding funds and even tremendous artwork. This opens up large new prospects for innovation, know-how and funding methods.
GBA: Strategic new function in making a hub for digital asset administration
The Larger Bay Space (GBA) integration will acquire vital traction in 2021, and Hong Kong, as a world monetary centre, performs a vital function in making a world hub for digital asset administration, buying and selling and tokenization. China introduced its plan in 2020 to launch the take a look at for its digital yuan, digital model of China’s bodily foreign money, in Hong Kong as a result of it’s the “most open and worldwide metropolis” within the GBA. As soon as the regulatory framework is established in Hong Kong, it can present an atmosphere to nurture the ecosystem all through the GBA.
New Regular: Acceptance of funds in digital foreign money
This can pull by way of total digital asset sector. Corporations like PayPal have begun to assist cryptocurrencies for the primary time, permitting any PayPal account holder to retailer, purchase, and promote widespread digital currencies beginning later this yr. The marketplace for cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens is surging and we are able to see an thrilling new dynamic coming into play because the digital belongings world expands greater than ever earlier than.
Digital Acceptance Rising: Institutional Traders extra favorable than ever earlier than
From our area expertise, interviews and analysis, we all know that institutional buyers have a robust curiosity in digital belongings. The 2020 Constancy Digital Belongings survey confirmed that 80% of institutional buyers had been favorable to digital belongings.
The regulatory readability for digital asset buying and selling platforms will assist to guard buyers and guarantee secure asset custody and market integrity. We imagine these will assist to foster an ecosystem in digital asset industries in Hong Kong and Asia.
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