London startup DLT Financial announced an ambitious project - to create a stock market index for the top 10 cryptocurrency that can increase their attractiveness to investors.
According to Reuters, in the coming weeks it will be based fund to invest in cryptocurrency, which, inter alia, will be engaged in tracking the index. While it is known that in the currency basket includes Bitcoin, Ether, and Ripple.
Earlier this year, the UK government provided the company a grant of £ 250,000 ($ 330,000) to build a prototype program for the calculation of the index. Also in the plans of the company - an international index of emerging technologies.
Co-founder and CTO Dave DLT Financial Eski explained this step cryptocurrency need to make available to a wider range of investors, including those who do not have technical knowledge about the structure of digital assets:
"We are looking for a way to bridge the gap between the existing high-tech world blokcheyna and more traditional institutional investment community."
DLT Financial promises to use the most modern means to protect the investor money, including - cryptocurrency storage in cold storage - the device is not connected to the network.
Earlier, an attempt to create an index cryptocurrency (Soinoindex) was undertaken by the exchange Poloniex: it included 20 leading altcoins. However, at this point, the system is not working.
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