To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. While 2020 will almost certainly not be remembered as the year in which cryptocurrency and digital assets made their long-promised arrival as a mainstay of financial transactions — overshadowed as they were by domestic politics and a global pandemic — the past 11 months marked another significant step in that ongoing journey. According to a recent Fidelity survey, 27% of institutional investors in the U.S. hold crypto assets and 60% of investors across the U.S. and Europe "believe digital assets have a place in their investment portfolio." 1 The trend toward acceptance of digital assets as an asset class