Brasiliens største investeringsmægler, der tilbyder Bitcoin-handel i august: Rapport

• Brazil’s largest investment broker, XP Inc., will begin offering bitcoin trading next month.
• The broker will offer its trading services on a new cryptocurrency trading platform developed alongside Nasdaq.
• BitGo will serve as the custodian for digital assets held by the trading platform.

XP Inc., the largest investment brokerage in Brazil by market value, will allow some customers to begin trading bitcoin next month, according to a report from Reuters.

XP will list bitcoin and one other cryptocurrency on its cryptocurrency trading platform, Xtage, by mid-August. The broker plans to expand its product offerings by the end of the year, the company’s director of financial products Lucas Rabechini said, per the report.

Det institutionelle kryptovalutafirma BitGo var valgt som XP's depotpartner for Xtage. BitGo tilbyder institutionel kvalitet kølig opbevaring multisignature (multisig) tegnebøger for at beskytte aktiver og samtidig tilbyde forsikring på aktiver, der holdes på platformen, samt selvforvaltede cold custody-løsninger. I første omgang vil Xtage efter sigende not support withdrawals or transfers of bitcoin.

Xtage var først annoncerede i maj, og blev udelukkende tilgængelig for medarbejdere i begyndelsen af ​​juli. XP nævnte, at den hurtige tidslinje til dels skyldtes den voksende konkurrence fra andre finansielle institutioner, der kom ind i økosystemet som f.eks. Nubank, Itau Unibanco og BTG Pactual.

“There are competitors doing their homework, some pretty competent ones, but we are competent as well,” Rabechini said.

Den efter sigende "superhurtige" handelsplatform blev designet i samarbejde med Nasdaq med fokus på ordreudførelse og vil integreres med dens nuværende applikationer. Derudover bemærkede Rabechini, at denne beslutning handler om teknologi, ikke at kunne prissætte markedet på det rigtige tidspunkt.

“You can say ‘the volume has been weak, there will be few orders,’ but we see this market systematically growing over time, and our long-term view is not just focused on price, but also technology,” Rabechini said.