With much talk in 2018 regarding Wall Street’s potential cryptocurrency uptake somewhat fading towards the end of the year, JPMorgan’s Global Market Strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou is reigniting the flame.
The market needs to grow first, claims Panigirtzoglou, predicting the long-awaited and much talked about rush of institutional investment, but it is not going to be an overnight sensation. He argues: “The stability that we are seeing right now in the cryptocurrency market is setting the stage for more participation by institutional investors in the future.”
Partly, the slow uptake, according to the JPMorgan strategist, is regulators who are still a “bit slow to realize” the potential of the industry. A recent Circle report agrees, pointing out how ICO activity reduced in the second half of 2018 due to increased regulation, putting further downward pressure on the cryptocurrency market.
report points out that stablecoins, security tokens, and institutional crypto, by providing the solution of real-world problems and adding more certainty to the crypto space as a whole, are the next big thing. Last year, Cardano (ADA) co-founder Charles Hoskinson predicted that the entry of Wall Street into the sector would bring in “tens of trillions of dollars”.
Late last year, Wall Street’s previous crypto fervor cooled noticeably, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup all shelving much publicized crypto-related products for a future date. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is biding his time and certainly holding on to his Bitcoin claiming it is “native to internet ideals”, and as such must be successful. Always resolute in his claims, Dorsey insists that:
“The world ultimately will have a single currency, the Internet will have a single currency. I personally believe that it will be Bitcoin.”
That being the case, Wall Street won’t be too far away when it happens.
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