Options Tied to BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Surge to Nearly 50% of Deribit’s BTC Open Interest in Two Months Options linked to BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) began trading on Nov. 19 and have since grown to half the size of Deribit’s BTC options market.

BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Records Its Largest Outflow BlackRock’s IBIT started the new year on a rough note, losing millions in net outflows on Thursday.

DeFi Protocol Usual’s Surge Catapults Hashnote’s Tokenized Treasury Over BlackRock’s BUIDL Hashnote’s USYC is the primary backing asset of the red-hot decentralized finance protocol Usual, whose USD0 stablecoin zoomed over $1 billion market capitalization in a few months.

Ethena Rolls Out Stablecoin Backed by BlackRock’s BUIDL Token The protocol’s governance token ENA rallied over the weekend as Donald Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial invested in the token.

Copper to Offer Custody Services for Tokenized Money Market Funds Such as BlackRock’s BUIDL The crypto custodian’s clients can use money market fund tokens as collateral in derivatives trades after the company received approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) in Abu Dhabi.

Bitcoin Hits Record High Against BlackRock’s U.S. Treasury ETF as Investors Search for Returns: Van Straten At the same time, crypto investors are looking to reduce risk ahead of the U.S. election, driving bitcoin’s crypto-market dominance to a cycle high.

BlackRock’s Entry Into Crypto Matters More Than U.S. Election, QCP Capital’s Darius Sit Says BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on CNBC means more to QCP’s founder and chief investment officer rather than presidential candidates promoting crypto.

Tokenized Treasuries Like Blackrock’s BUIDL Will Challenge Stablecoins But Won’t Fully Replace Them: JPMorgan These tokens are at a regulatory disadvantage to stablecoins due to their classification as securities, the report said.