Qualified accredited investors will be able to put money into Bitcoin Cash, Ether, Litecoin and Ripple, the investment firm said in a statement. Each fund will operate as a trust, and the shares will be subject to a one-year holding period before they can be resold without restriction.
Grayscale, which manages $2.1 billion in assets, started out in 2013 with Bitcoin Investment Trust, focused on the best-known cryptocurrency. The added funds could broaden the New York-based company’s geographic reach. There’s a lot of interest in Ripple in Japan, for example, according to Michael Sonnenshein, managing director at Grayscale.