CoinShares International
European alternative asset manager specializing in digital assets.
CoinShares International Limited is a financial services provider and asset manager based in Jersey that specializes in digital assets (especially cryptocurrencies). The company, headquartered in St. Helier (Jersey), was founded in 2013 / 2014 and is considered one of the first companies in the crypto investment sector. CoinShares offers institutional and private investors access to crypto investments, for example through exchange-traded crypto products (ETPs), funds, and other financial products. The group has been listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange since 2021, and in September 2025, a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange was announced.
History
CoinShares has its roots in the asset management company Global Advisors (Jersey) Limited, which was founded in 1999 and initially specialized in commodity investments. Under the leadership of Daniel Masters, a former JPMorgan trader, and other financial analysts, the company shifted its focus to cryptocurrencies in 2014. In 2014, Global Advisors launched the Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), the world's first regulated Bitcoin fund to be publicly traded. In 2016, CoinShares (as the successor to Global Advisors) acquired the Swedish company XBT Provider, which had already launched the world's first exchange-traded Bitcoin security (ETP) on Nasdaq Stockholm in 2015.
In the following years, CoinShares grew through further innovations and partnerships.
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