Coinbase expanding services to institutional investors

Coinbase offers new service for institutional clients.
Coinbase offers new service for institutional clients.

One of the biggest crypto exchanges, and the most popular one in the US, Coinbase has launched a new service for institutional investors.

On September 1st it was revealed Coinbase raised 57m USD for a new lending platform that enables regular users to lend their assets to this exchange, and the exchange will further offer those assets for borrowing to the big institutions.

Per Coinbase’s statement, they are working to “update the financial system that was built over 100 years ago”.

More details can be found here.

Will they succeed or user’s funds will be lost, like in Genesis and BlockFi case? What are your thoughts?