{"id":14967,"date":"2022-11-30T02:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T02:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/fidelity-starts-offering-bitcoin-and-ethereum-trading-to-34-4m-customers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T02:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T02:36:28","slug":"fidelity-starts-offering-bitcoin-and-ethereum-trading-to-34-4m-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/fidelity-starts-offering-bitcoin-and-ethereum-trading-to-34-4m-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity Starts Offering Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading to 34.4M Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Crypto News &#8211; iGaming.org )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Despite opposition from US politicians, investment firm Fidelity has introduced new retail crypto trading accounts, moving deeper into the troubled cryptocurrency sector.<\/p>\n<p>The investment giant with over $4.5 trillion of assets under management and holding 34.4 million retail accounts, made the announcement on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fidelity.com\/crypto\/trading\">website<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFidelity Crypto is your opportunity to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum in the Fidelity Investments App.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/crypto\/34-4-million-fidelity-clients-can-soon-buy-bitcoin\/\">September<\/a>, sources close to Fidelity already revealed the firm would soon be offering the top two crypto assets to its clients.<\/p>\n<p>Fidelity revealed plans for the platform earlier this month and invited clients to join an early-access list. Fidelity stated at the time that many Fidelity customers <em>\u201care already interested in and own crypto. We are providing them with tools to support their choice, so they can benefit from Fidelity\u2019s education, research, and technology.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The only cryptocurrencies accessible for trading on the Fidelity Crypto platform at the time of launch will be <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/cryptocurrencies\/section\/what-is-a-bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/cryptocurrencies\/ethereum-alternative-coin\/\">Ethereum<\/a>, but Fidelity confirmed over time it will introduce other other cryptocurrencies and possibly trading of options as well. For now, the platform will not allow crypto transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore there will be no commission on crypto trading, however a maximum 1% spread will be included into every transaction.<\/p>\n<p>In the last week of October, Fidelity <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/crypto\/starting-at-50000-fidelity-clients-can-now-invest-in-ethereum-fund\/\">launched a Fidelity Ethereum Index Fund<\/a> via its subsidiary, Fidelity Digital Assets offering its clients exposure to the leading smart contract network Ethereum at a minimum backing of $50,000. U<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/crypto\/fidelity-starts-offering-bitcoin-and-ethereum-trading-to-34-4m-customers\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Crypto News &#8211; iGaming.org ) Despite opposition from US politicians, investment firm Fidelity has introduced new retail crypto trading accounts, moving deeper into the troubled cryptocurrency sector. The investment giant with over $4.5 trillion of assets under management and holding 34.4 million retail accounts, made the announcement on its website on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}