Goldman Sachs is giving hedge fund shoppers crypto analysis from information agency The Block

Goldman Sachs has stared giving its institutional buying and selling shoppers analysis reviews from crypto information and information agency The Block.

Hedge funds and different shoppers started receiving the reviews Thursday through the funding financial institution’s Marquee digital platform, based on an e mail obtained by CNBC. The primary report out there to Goldman shoppers was an summary of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on the Ethereum community.

“In an effort to offer related digital belongings content material and analysis, GS Digital Property is now offering unique entry to pick out reviews from The Block Analysis,” the financial institution mentioned. “Whereas these sometimes require a paid subscription, shoppers can entry them without cost with a Marquee account.”

The transfer by Goldman, a premier world funding financial institution, is an indication of elevated demand from giant buyers for data and evaluation about cryptocurrencies and associated fields like DeFi. Financial institution of America and Morgan Stanley have every introduced new crypto analysis desks this 12 months, whereas Goldman revamped its digital belongings division final 12 months and started buying and selling bitcoin-linked devices in Might.

A Goldman spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the consumer e mail and declined to remark additional.

The funding financial institution has mentioned that its Marquee platform, which permits shoppers to entry information and analytics with out utilizing conventional strategies like calling salespeople, has 50,000 energetic month-to-month customers.

The dizzying ascent of bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies lately has been accompanied by the rise of latest information retailers like The Block and CoinDesk and expanded hiring by established retailers together with Bloomberg Information.

“Giant monetary establishments and expertise firms have leveraged The Block’s suite of analysis and information companies to extra deeply perceive the fast-growing marketplace for digital belongings for a while now,” The Block CEO Michael McCaffrey mentioned in an e mail.