Anthony Bassili: Bitcoin, Digital Gold, and the Future of Institutional Crypto

Anthony Bassili: Bitcoin, Digital Gold, and the Future of Institutional Crypto

Author: Bitcoin.com July 15, 2026 Duration: 24:13

🎙️ How are institutional investors really approaching Bitcoin?

Anthony Bassili, President of Coinbase Asset Management, joins Bitcoin.com News with Alex Richardson to discuss how institutions are evaluating Bitcoin, tokenization, and the evolving role of digital assets in modern portfolios.

Anthony explains why Bitcoin can be viewed as pristine collateral, how BTC yield strategies work, why tokenization alone doesn't guarantee liquidity, and how Bitcoin and gold can complement each other as long-term stores of value.

Topics include:

- Institutional Bitcoin adoption

- Bitcoin as pristine collateral

- BTC yield strategies

- Tokenization and market liquidity

- Bitcoin vs. gold in portfolio construction

- Crypto regulation and wallet-based KYC

- Permissionless vs. private blockchains

- Why institutions are still early in cryptoChapters:(00:55)

- Introduction and portfolio construction mindset(02:33)

- What crypto natives get wrong(04:05)

- Bitcoin as “immaculate collateral”(06:49)

- How Bitcoin yield works(08:12)

- Expected long-term Bitcoin returns(09:41)

- The Bitcoin + gold store of value index(12:15)

- Why Bitcoin is a store of value(13:21)

- Institutional adoption and open vs closed chains(15:43)

- KYC moving to the wallet(17:53)

- Which region leads crypto regulation?(20:12)

- What regulation would be constructive?(21:56)

- The Bitcoin pitch for institutions


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