BlackRock Sees Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions Coming to Bitcoin ETFs
The asset manager has been helping educate pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds about the new spot bitcoin ETF products, the firm’s head of digital assets said.
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RWA Tokenization Firm Securitize Raises $47M Led by Fund Partner BlackRock
BlackRock and Securitize last month teamed up to create the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, which may prove to be geared toward RWA tokenization.
BlackRock’s BUIDL Becomes Largest Tokenized Treasury Fund Hitting $375M, Toppling Franklin Templeton’s
BlackRock’s first tokenized offering, created with Securitize, has captured almost 30% of the $1.3 billion tokenized Treasury market in just six weeks.
Hedera’s HBAR Doubles, Then Falls 25%, as BlackRock Links Diminish
Hedera’s native HBAR token surged by more than 107% on Tuesday as investors believed that BlackRock was involved in a fund tokenization project on the Hedera blockchain, the token then slumped by more than 25% as BlackRock turned out to have no involvement in the launch.
Spot Bitcoin ETF Hype Dies Down, Normalcy Sets In
The initial euphoria for the spot bitcoin ETFs has seemingly dampened and reality is slowly kicking in with inflows recently unable to keep up with the still speedy pace of exits from Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC).
There Are Many Bitcoin Critics Left in Finance, Despite BlackRock’s Newfound Love
At a recent gathering of investors in Miami, skepticism remained high even after finance titan BlackRock’s shift toward touting the original cryptocurrency.
Ondo Spikes 8% as Ondo Finance Tests Instant Conversion From BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund to USDC
Stablecoin issuer Circle introduced a new smart contract function earlier Thursday to allow near-instant, around-the-clock redemptions from BlackRock’s BUIDL fund for USDC stablecoins.
BlackRock Adds Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS as APs for Bitcoin ETF
BlackRock (BLK) has added five additional authorized participants (APs) to the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), bringing the total number to nine as the fund continues to attract billions of dollars of inflows from investors.
BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund Quickly Rakes in $245M, Right Behind Franklin Templeton’s Older Offering
The tokenized U.S. Treasury market is poised to reach $1 billion “very soon” given the growth of BlackRock’s BUIDL, an analyst noted.
BlackRock’s Fink Says an Ether ETF Is Possible Even if ETH Is a Security
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink isn’t worried about the U.S. Securities and Exchange classifying Ethereum’s ether as a security.