Crypto Custody, Lending and Shorting
Required Readings:
‘Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacks: 9 Things You Need to Know’ Unbound (July 31, 2019)
‘A Cryptocurrency Custody Battle Is A-Brewing—The Ledger’ Fortune (August 19, 2019)
‘Top 10 Crypto Loan Companies’ Oliver Issacs (July 3, 2019)
‘How to Short-Sell Bitcoin’ The Balance (February 8, 2019)
‘Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Getting Hacked Because It’s Easy’ Wall Street Journal (July 16, 2018)
Optional Readings:
‘Crypto Custody’ Amanda Gould, University of Pennsylvania Law School (July 25, 2019)
‘Joint Staff Statement on Broker-Dealer Custody of Digital Asset Securities’ SEC (July 8, 2019)
‘Bill Gates: I would short bitcoin if I could’ CNBC (May 7, 2018)
Study Questions/Issues to Prepare:
1) What are the challenges of crypto custody? How will addressing custody effect institutional and
retail involvement in crypto markets?
2) How might crypto lending effect crypto markets?
3) How does shorting of crypto assets currently work? How might more efficient crypto shorting
alternatives effect crypto markets?