Earlier in the year, Fidelity Investments launched its arm dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Called Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS), the branch trades in and takes custody of digital assets. Now, according to FDAS President Tom Jessop, the platform will take its time adding support for Ethereum (available on Coinbase).

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The platform currently has support for Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) and is still evaluating what cryptocurrencies may be added in the future.

Where Ethereum (available on Coinbase) is concerned, the executive has expressed that the company is biding time:

“We’d love to have support [for] ETHer but you know you have a hard fork coming up and some upgrades, so I think we’re trying to see how those things work out before we make a decision to put them on the platform.”

It’s interesting that Fidelity Digital Assets isn’t leaping to support the second largest coin by market cap. Ethereum (available on Coinbase) is also, arguably, the number one protocol for dApps. It’s more usual to simply follow popularity and market caps.

But Jessop iterated that they are not making support decisions lightly:

“We will probably go in market cap order, that’s where the demand is but it doesn’t mean that we will list every coin […] There may be reasons why we [won’t list] a coin that has nothing to do with quite frankly client [demand].”