Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that don't always recognize them as parts of the same […]
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BlackRock IBIT And MicroStrategy Show Two Very Different Ways To Accumulate Bitcoin - Read the full analysis.
BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy are backing a $15 million effort to prepare Bitcoin against future quantum-computing attacks. The companies are among nine founding members of the Bitcoin Security Consortium, announced July 23 to support developers and researchers working on the network’s long-term security. The consortium also includes Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Block, Blockstream, Fidelity Digital […]
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Nine firms including Strategy and BlackRock formed a $15 million Bitcoin security consortium to fund post-quantum cryptography research.
Members will direct funding independently, with the consortium taking no role in Bitcoin governance or protocol decisions.
Ethereum ETF Inflows Extend To Third Day As BlackRock Offsets Fidelity Outflows - Read the full analysis.
# Bitcoin ETF Inflows Extend For Second Week, But Recovery Remains Fragile
BlackRock generated $82 million in revenue from its digital-asset products during the first half of 2026, even as falling Bitcoin and Ethereum prices erased nearly $30 billion from the assets supporting the business. The world's largest asset manager recorded $42 million in digital-asset base fees and securities-lending revenue in the first quarter, followed by $40 […]
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The firm seeks to offer tokenized long-term investments like "Treasury funds, iShares ETFs, and even private markets."
JPMorgan will tokenize part of its Invesco QQQ Trust holdings held at DTCC, while Microsoft, Circle, and SPY shares will also be tokenized.
BlackRock's digital asset funds attracted $15 billion in net inflows over the past year, but falling crypto prices drove the value of those holdings sharply lower.
FBTC and IBIT drove the $424.7 million reversal, leaving the July 6-13 balance $227.3 million in the red.
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Bitcoin ETF flows are back in the spotlight because they give the market one of its cleanest daily reads on institutional demand. After weeks of supply-side anxiety around government wallets and legacy distributions, fre
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in roughly $266 million on July 6, with IBIT supplying about $209 million, making the next few sessions a test of whether ETF demand can keep supporting BTC.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs have shown signs of renewed inflows, but the broader flow picture is still fragile after heavy selling pressure.
Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry's most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients. JPMorgan now settles payments in its own deposit token on a public […]
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Ondo Finance launches tokenized BlackRock IVV ETF and Micron shares under SEC-defined custodial model with Ethereum-based settlement.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs reportedly saw their worst monthly net outflows in June as institutional flows cooled and Bitcoin’s price fell.
Bitcoin is close enough to my lower channel levels that the old $49K framework is back in play, but confirmation still depends on acceptance below the high-$50Ks and stress from flows, leverage, and miners.
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BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust reportedly surpassed Fidelity in assets under management, reinforcing IBIT's lead in the Bitcoin ETF market.
The move makes USDe more accessible to investment professionals wishing to take advantage of 'digital dollar exposure.'
IBIT still dominates the spot Bitcoin ETF market, but Farside's latest flow data shows its scale can now work in reverse when Bitcoin needs fresh spot demand around $60,000.
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Anchorage Digital’s latest analysis shows Bitcoin options traders remain defensive as near-term uncertainty persists, though markets are not pricing an extreme downside scenario for Strategy.
BlackRock Says 1% To 2% Bitcoin Allocation Is Reasonable For Traditional Portfolios
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BlackRock says a 1% to 2% Bitcoin allocation can be reasona
The proposed funds would allocate stock dividends to Bitcoin-linked investments, using a dividend reinvestment strategy to build crypto exposure over time.
The merger of crypto, decentralized finance and traditional finance is being referred to as the “Great Convergence” at BlackRock.
The Layer 2 had uptime, transactions and integrations, but BTCFi demand is moving through wrappers and institutions.
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The reported $100 UNI target hinges on tokenized assets leaving closed rails for liquid, composable markets.
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The Nasdaq-listed ETF offers monthly income potential through covered calls while capping part of the rally trade.
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After IBIT's $49 billion success, BlackRock says clients are increasingly seeking ways to earn income from long-term bitcoin holdings.