{"id":57187,"date":"2022-02-04T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57187"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:24:13","slug":"tiger-global-moves-into-crypto-trading-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tiger-global-moves-into-crypto-trading-reports-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Global moves into crypto trading, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American investment firm Tiger Global Management has begun actively trading cryptocurrencies. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/exclusive-veteran-blockchain-vc-backer-tiger-global-moves-into-crypto-trading\/\\\">Blockworks<\/a> reports, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;Tiger isn&#8217;t rushing things, but to be honest, I&#8217;m surprised they haven&#8217;t done this sooner. They certainly have the connections to dive into this space. It&#8217;s simply a matter of attracting the right people for trading,&#8221; said one of the publication&#8217;s sources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tiger Global Management <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoinedrean\/2022\/01\/20\/10-outrageous-predictions-for-private-equity-in-2022\/?sh=4925addc3309\\\">manages<\/a> assets of about $95 billion. The company actively invests in the blockchain industry. Last year it <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tiger-global-backs-certik-in-24m-series-b-round\">led<\/a> a funding round for the smart-contract auditor CertiK and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tiger-global-buys-2-6-million-coinbase-shares\">acquired<\/a> 2.6 million Coinbase shares.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Tiger Global Management deals with major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and also invests in assets of decentralized protocols, including Filecoin. They noted that the company is examining the prospects of the Web 3.0 sector.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, the financial conglomerate Citigroup announced the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/citigroup-to-launch-digital-assets-unit-for-institutional-clients\">cryptocurrency-focused division<\/a> within its Institutional Clients Group.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American investment firm Tiger Global Management has begun actively trading cryptocurrencies, Blockworks reports, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1156,2234],"class_list":["post-57187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-tiger-global"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57189,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187\/revisions\/57189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}