Wisconsin More Than Doubled BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Holdings to 6M Shares The state’s investment board’s stake is worth more than $340 million at IBIT’s current price of $56.10.

BlackRock Increases Ownership of Strategy to 5% Strategy’s STRK is up 5% in pre-market trading, building on its 2% gain during its Nasdaq debut.

Blackrock Plans to Launch a Bitcoin ETP in Europe: Bloomberg The fund would be based in Switzerland and BlackRock could start marketing it as soon as this month, according to the story.

Nasdaq Files for In-Kind Redemptions for BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF The Securities and Exchange Commission had previously only allowed cash redemptions when the spot bitcoin ETFs were approved last January.

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Put Options at $30, $35 Price Levels See Volume Spike The spike in activity likely stems from “cash-secured” selling of the options by traders who missed the rally in the ETF.

BlackRock expands its tokenized money market fund to Polygon and other blockchains BlackRock launched the USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund on Ethereum earlier this year.

BlackRock Expands Tokenized Fund BUIDL Beyond Ethereum to 5 New Blockchains The investment giant is bringing its real-world asset fund to Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism’s OP Mainnet and Polygon.

Bitcoin Registers Fourth-Best Day of 2024 as BlackRock ETF Posts Record Volume BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust registered $4.1 billion in volume traded as bitcoin broke out to all-time highs.

BlackRock’s $500M Tokenized Fund Pitches for Ethena’s RWA Investment Plan Ethena’s proposal to allocate funds to tokenized real-world assets for yield follows similar actions by crypto lender MakerDAO and Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum’s development organization.

BlackRock’s Larry Fink: Bitcoin Is ‘Legitimate Financial Instrument’ BlackRock (BLK) CEO Larry Fink reiterated his belief that Bitcoin {{BTC}} is an asset that everybody should consider holding as part of their portfolio.

BlackRock Assets Under Management Rise Through $10T The asset manager is the largest public holder of bitcoin by virtue of its iShares Bitcoin Trust exchange-traded fund, which now holds more than 300,000 BTC.

MakerDAO’s $1B Tokenized Treasury Investment Plan Draws Interest from BlackRock’s BUIDL, Ondo, Superstate MakerDAO’s competition to allocate funds will open next month, and would give a big boost for the $1.8 billion tokenized real-world asset space.

BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund Tops $500M as Tokenized Treasury Market Soars The overall market of tokenized U.S. Treasury products has reached $1.8 billion, up from $780 million in January, rwa.xyz data shows.

Prime Broker Hidden Road Adds Major Crypto Exchanges, Expands Use of BlackRock’s BUIDL Token Hidden Road is now integrated with Coinbase International Exchange, OKX, Deribit, Bitfinex, AsiaNext, SIX Digital Exchange and Bullish.

BlackRock-backed fintech Trustly says IPO still at least one year out even as profits jump 51% Johan Tjarnberg, CEO of Trustly, told CNBC his firm still needs time to prove the value of its open banking tech to investors before going public.

BlackRock Takes the Crown for the Largest Spot Bitcoin ETF From Grayscale Inflows to IBIT have picked up recently after a dismal few weeks at the end of April. BlackRock now holds the ETF in two of its major funds.

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.

Where BlackRock Goes, Liquidity Flows BlackRock and Securitize’s new digital assets fund is a game-changer for tokenization and the wider regulated market, says Peter Gaffney, head of research at Security Token Advisors.

Fidelity Wants to Create an Ether ETF, Joining BlackRock in Doubling Down on Crypto