Your Swiss Crypto Investment Partner

The Zurich-based private bank Maerki Baumann & Co. Ltd. has entered into a cooperation with Bitcoin Suisse Ltd., the leading Swiss provider of crypto financial services. The collaboration will allow the private bank to utilize the proven crypto expertise of Bitcoin Suisse in managing its crypto investment solutions, and to expand its existing offering in the area of digital assets under the “ARCHIP” brand. The cooperation is to be integrated into Maerki Baumann’s investment process via the “Joint Crypto Advisory Board”. Clients of Bitcoin Suisse will gain access to first-class private banking services for traditional assets. Maerki Baumann’s longstanding experience in serving clients with a crypto background makes the private bank Bitcoin Suisse’s preferred partner for traditional investments.

Zug, May 14, 2024 – Bitcoin Suisse reports on its 2023 financial result and provides an outlook into 2024. During a phase of what market insiders commonly refer to as “crypto winter”, the company streamlined its offering, increased the scalability and efficiency of its infrastructure, and invested into future products and services. In a difficult environment with global crypto trading volume declining by 40% compared to the previous year, Bitcoin Suisse closed the year with a net loss of CHF 13.0 million. With an equity position of CHF 103.6 million at the end of 2023, the Group remains robustly capitalized and well positioned to leverage future opportunities in an increasingly favorable market environment. For the first quarter of 2024, Bitcoin Suisse Group reports unaudited net profits of CHF 17.2 million.

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Zug and Lugano, December 5, 2023 – Today, the City of Lugano announced that it has broadened its payment options by including cryptocurrencies for the payment of tax invoices and all other community fees. Starting today, Lugano will accept Bitcoin (BTC) and Tether (USDT) as a means of payment through a simple and fully automated process, utilizing Bitcoin Suisse.

As the first Swiss crypto-financial service provider and one of the first worldwide, Bitcoin Suisse announced today the full support of Celestia from day 1, offering custody, trading, and staking of its native token TIA.TIA’s utility includes interacting with the network, paying for data availability, providing cryptoeconomic security to the network via staking, and participating in decentralized governance. Mainnet launch of Celestia happened as planned on October 31, 2023 at 14:00 UTC.

Bitcoin Suisse AG (“Bitcoin Suisse”) is pleased to announce its collaboration with Valour Inc. (“Valour”), the wholly-owned subsidiary of DeFi Technologies Inc. (the “Company” or “DeFi Technologies”) (NEO: DEFI) (GR: MB9) (OTC: DEFTF), a crypto native technology company that pioneers the convergence of traditional capital markets with the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The collaboration between Bitcoin Suisse and Valour is aimed at the issuance of Exchange Traded Products (“ETPs”) backed by physical digital assets.

Bitcoin Suisse has enabled trading and custody of ARB, the governance token of the Arbitrum Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), which collectively manages the development of the Arbitrum technology and ecosystem. The Arbitrum ecosystem provides Ethereum scaling solutions. Users can bridge their assets to Arbitrum networks and benefit from faster and cheaper transactions whilst inheriting strong safety guarantees from Ethereum.

The Canton of Zug has increased the threshold for tax payments with the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ether from the previous CHF 100’000 to CHF 1.5 million with immediate effect. This measure aims to facilitate access to digital payment methods and meets the growing needs of the population and businesses based in the canton of Zug.

Bitcoin Suisse today announced the support of KILT as part of their offering for their institutional and private investor base. The technology pioneer and enabler of the Swiss crypto ecosystem is the first custodial crypto-financial services provider worldwide to allow institutional users secure access to the KILT blockchain. Geared towards organizations, external asset managers, family offices, and (U)HNW individuals, the offering includes custody and brokerage of KILT, as well as governance voting.

Bitcoin Suisse, the Swiss crypto-native pioneer and trusted gateway to crypto asset investing, announced today it has joined Liquid Collective, the enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol built and run by an independent collective of leading Web3 teams.

The Shanghai upgrade scheduled for the first half of 2023 will enable withdrawals of both staked ETH and accrued staking rewards that remained locked in the Beacon chain. Read about the upgrade and the implications for investors in this week's Decrypt.

Since the emergence of Bitcoin in 2009, the adoption of crypto assets has grown rapidly, and they have become an integral part of the global financial system. Rapid proliferation of such new assets has triggered repeated calls for regulation.

Article for the Bitcoin Suisse Crypto Outlook 2023 from Head of Research Dr. Marcus Dapp on macro economics with a special eye on Bitcoin.

Article for the Bitcoin Suisse Crypto Outlook 2023 from Dominic Weibel on Ethereum’s transition to Proof-of-Stake and related changes to its monetary policy, security model and energy efficiency.

Despite markets pacing down in recent months, NFTs couldn’t be more relevant as they start to penetrate a wide range of markets while offering more and more tangible utility. Various indicators signaling adoption beyond retail NFT trading and art and collectibles. Besides highlighting current NFT developments, we also shed some light on NFT fundamentals such as ownership and provenance in this week’s edition of Decrypt.

NFTs saw major momentum in 2021 alongside historically high trade volume and back to back record sales. As with any cycle top, NFT markets now face the tough conditions of a proper bear market with drying liquidity and participants looking to exit the market. But did this bubble pop once and for all or is there more? In this week’s edition of Decrypt, we dive into NFT markets, adoption and trends beyond art and collectibles.