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What to know:
- It seems Morgan Stanley has chosen Coinbase Custody and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to play digital nanny for their bitcoin stash. In case you’re wondering, BNY is also moonlighting as the fund administrator, transfer agent, and cash custodian. Just a casual job change, really.
- CoinDesk will be keeping score with their Bitcoin Benchmark 4PM New York Settlement Rate. Because, apparently, the only way to track Bitcoin is to round up every trading activity happening on major exchanges and hope the numbers don’t get too dizzy.
Now, if you were waiting with bated breath to hear what Morgan Stanley is up to, they’ve filed a fancy prospectus with the SEC-because why just be rich when you can also be bureaucratic? In it, they reveal their grand plan for the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust. And, hold onto your hats, it turns out Coinbase Custody and BNY Mellon will be entrusted with protecting their bitcoin, as though they were precious digital snowflakes. A form S-1, no less, has been submitted to prove it. It’s like a financial treasure map, only with more paperwork.
Coinbase Custody and BNY Mellon will be doing the whole ‘custodial’ thing, which basically means they’ll look after the bitcoin, make sure no one swipes it, and handle any shuffling of shares that might happen from time to time. They’re like the digital vault keepers but with more spreadsheets and fewer dramatic cave-ins.
As expected in a world where high-end finance meets digital currency, they’ve opted for a “cold storage” approach. No, not the chilly kind-more like offline storage, so no hacker can sneak in and make off with the goods. And if you were wondering, yes, there is insurance, but no, it’s not a “one size fits all” deal. Some of you might have to deal with a “whoops, sorry, not covered” situation if things go awry.
Meanwhile, BNY Mellon, because one job wasn’t enough, is also playing a couple of other roles in this saga. They’re the fund administrator, the transfer agent, and the cash custodian. They’ll be busy handling accounting, shareholder records, and making sure cash flows (or doesn’t, depending on the day) with ETF transactions. It’s a lot of hats, but hey, when you’re as old as BNY Mellon, you’ve probably got a pretty good hat collection.
And how will they track this delightful Bitcoin ETF, you ask? Simple. The ETF will be a passive investment vehicle that tracks Bitcoin directly, because who wants derivatives when you can own the actual digital unicorn itself? The ETF is going to use CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Benchmark 4PM New York Settlement Rate to figure out what’s happening with Bitcoin on any given day. It’s like waiting for the scoreboard at a game of high-stakes Monopoly-except here, the money actually exists.
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2026-03-04 15:14