San Francisco, CA, June 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SharesPost, a leading provider of private company liquidity solutions and private capital markets research, has published a new research report detailing the broad market opportunity for the blockchain industry. The report, titled Investment Strategies for Blockchain: A $2.5 Trillion Opportunity, analyzes specific blockchain use cases across 20 industry verticals and estimates a value creation opportunity exceeding $2.5 trillion over the next ten years.
The market opportunity for blockchain technology over the next decade is notable in the following verticals:
Rohit Kulkarni, Managing Director and Head of Research at SharesPost, said: “Blockchain has always been deemed a disruptive technology, but in quantifying its actual market potential, we hope/plan to showcase the possible impact this technology could have over the next several years. As such, blockchain is becoming increasingly important to individual and institutional investors who are looking to enter the markets most impacted by the technology.”
The report also highlights four different ways both individual and institutional investors can approach markets affected by blockchain technology. These include:
For more information on blockchain’s market opportunity, view the report here: Investment Strategies for Blockchain: A $2.5 Trillion Opportunity.
For more information on SharesPost, visit sharespost.com.
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SharesPost Digital Asset Group CEO John Wu and SharesPost Managing Director and Head of Research Rohit Kulkarni are available for interview.
About SharesPost:
SharesPost’s mission is to create liquidity for the private growth asset class. In 2009, SharesPost launched the first online secondary market for private technology company shares. Since then, SharesPost has connected thousands of buyers and sellers in more than $4 billion worth of transactions in the shares of more than 200 leading technology companies.
The SharesPost platform now also enables clients to access a variety of private market investment and liquidity solutions including (i) research and data on leading private technology companies, (ii) the SharesPost Private Growth Index, (iii) the SharesPost100 Fund, a registered mutual fund providing all investors with easy access to the asset class, and (iv) SharesPost Lending, which enables private company shareholders to borrow against their shares. In 2017, SharesPost managed its first Initial Coin Offering and in 2018 announced plans to integrate trading of digital securities into the SharesPost platform.
SharesPost is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, SEC registered Alternative Trading System and Registered Investment Advisor. For more information, visit SharesPost.com.