# CoinShares

> Building the future of investing

CoinShares helps investors access digital assets through regulated exchange-traded products and institutional investment solutions.

CoinShares helps institutional and individual investors access digital assets through regulated financial products and services. You can invest in cryptocurrencies via ETPs, access active trading strategies through hedge funds, and benchmark performance with digital asset indices. CoinShares provides institutional-grade infrastructure for the digital economy.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2014-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/coinshares

## Products

- [CoinShares Capital Markets](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coinshares): CoinShares Capital Markets implements trading technology and liquidity provisioning through proprietary platforms, facilitating market-making services, treasury management, and bespoke hedging solutions for institutional clients and strategic partners. (Market Maker, Live, Main Product)
- [CoinShares Ventures](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coinshares): CoinShares Ventures implements strategic investment initiatives across fintech, infrastructure, protocols and DeFi companies, facilitating early-stage funding and portfolio development while building synergies within the digital asset ecosystem. (Venture Fund, Live)
- [CoinShares Hedge Fund Solutions](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coinshares): CoinShares Hedge Fund Solutions implements quantitative trading strategies through call overwrite, arbitrage and momentum models, targeting institutional investors seeking alpha generation above cryptocurrency performance through systematic market analysis. (Managed Fund, Live)
- [CoinShares Indices](https://thegrid.id/profiles/coinshares): CoinShares Indices implements digital asset benchmarking through systematic index construction and EU Benchmark Regulation compliance, facilitating performance measurement for crypto, blockchain equities and alternative asset classes. (Index Platform, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://coinshares.com)
- [Blog](https://coinshares.com/corp/insights/newsletter-subscription)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/CoinSharesCo)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/coinshares)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY_qvNmvy0OK7IpZrEvV7Eg)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/CoinSharesCo)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/coinsharesco)

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- [Attribution Guidelines](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data-attribution-guidelines): How to attribute The Grid's data when using the open data service.
- [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms): commercial Terms for using data services.
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- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP