MetaMask Institutional

Custody will play a fundamental role for organizations seeking to access crypto and DeFi. Custodians store private keys and approve and sign transactions. They are paramount to organizations acquiring and holding crypto assets.

DeFi is giving TradFi a run for its money by reducing the cost of financing for organizations. This is possible because DeFi is building new and innovative financial infrastructure, instead of making tweaks to the existing financial infrastructure used by TradFi.

Today, we discuss the tokenomics of the major exchange tokens: BNB (Binance’s token), HT (Huobi’s token), FTT (FTX’s Token), and OKB (OKEx’s token).

Four steps to prepare crypto funds, family offices, and financial institutions to access and engage in DeFi.

Managers who run funds with $1–10M of family and friends’ money will have very different businesses to funds that have $150M+ AUM. We look at the role of custodian services for a range of institutional investors.

With radical financial innovation and growth comes radical investment returns and opportunity—This is why more and more institutions are flooding into DeFi. We list a few of the most promising institutional investment opportunities in the space.

MetaMask just celebrated 10M+ monthly active users—up from 500k one year ago, showcasing growth of over 1800%. Institutional Defi investors however, have heightened risk and operational requirements to think of. MetaMask's institutional arm helps address these unique needs so that they can safely and efficiently access DeFi.

Through DeFi, the entire financial system is being rebuilt from first principles with more security, transparency and interoperability—in weeks and months rather than years and decades. With radical financial innovation and growth comes radical investment returns and opportunity, leading to more and more institutional capital flooding into this space.

There are many steps one has to take when starting a crypto fund that go well beyond raising capital and trading well. We talk about the service providers required by any new fund that wants to attract capital beyond family.