{"id":4788,"date":"2023-03-31T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02bb9c8aa000268c"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:13:30","slug":"boerse-stuttgart-digital-to-enable-institutional-bitcoin-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/boerse-stuttgart-digital-to-enable-institutional-bitcoin-trading","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Second-Largest Stock Exchange To Enable Institutional Bitcoin Trading Through Subsidiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-2023-website-article-banner.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Boerse Stuttgart Digital, a subsidiary of the second largest stock exchange in Germany, has received the final license as a cryptocurrency custodian from Germany&#8217;s financial regulator, BaFin. The license allows the exchange to provide institutional investors the ability to trade bitcoin on the platform as well as to act as a custodian. <br \/>The exchange has been offering custody services through its Blocknox platform since January 2020, under a provisional license. With this new licensing, it will join the ranks of several major international firms officially entering into the bitcoin custodial and trading industry as of late. <\/p>\n<p>Fidelity opened their <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/fidelity-has-opened-bitcoin-trading-to-the-public\">bitcoin trading platform<\/a> to the public this month, allowing institutional investors the option to hold their bitcoin with them as well. In addition to that, Latin America\u2019s largest e-commerce platform by market value, Mercado Libre, introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/mercadolibre-to-enable-bitcoin-trading-in-chile\">bitcoin trading to their Chilean users<\/a>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/latin-america-largest-company-enable-bitcoin-investments-payments-app\">already available in Brazil<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that all of these platforms bear the risks associated with third-party custody of your bitcoin. The safest way to ensure your bitcoin is always accessible and always available is through <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/bitcoin-self-custody-and-financial-sovereignty\">self-custody<\/a>, using a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/what-is-a-wallet\">bitcoin wallet<\/a>. Platforms like Boerse Stuttgart Digital and Fidelity have made bitcoin trading available to investors on these platforms, but do not necessarily further enable the true potential of bitcoin adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boerse Stuttgart Digital has received its final license from Germany&#8217;s financial regulator BaFin to offer bitcoin trading and custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[357,200,93,468],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-exchanges","tag-germany","tag-news","tag-trading"],"author_data":{"id":2730,"name":"BtcCasey","nicename":"casey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jn_tjlo_400x400.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/economic-chart-analysis.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}