Investors pulled $333 million from BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) on Thursday, the largest day of net outflows since the fund's launch. In addition, the fund also suffered three consecutive days of net outflows, the longest-running net outflow. The largest spot Bitcoin fund, the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF has more than $53 billion in assets and nearly $37 billion in inflows. Since its launch in January last year, the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF has been hugely popular with institution...
BlackRock's spot Ethereum ETF ETHA opened 23 minutes after the launch, the total trading volume exceeded $1 million.
BlackRock's spot Ethereum ETF, ETHA, has fallen 0.75% since opening to a provisional $26.58. Trading volume reached $430,449.
In Quarter 1, 2024, two funds owned by asset manager BlackRock - the BlackRock Strategic Earnings Opportunity Fund and the BlackRock Strategic Global Bond Fund - invested in Bitcoin through the company's spot Bitcoin ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). They bought $3.60 million and $486,000 of IBIT shares, respectively. Rick Rieder, BlackRock's global chief investment officer for fixed income, manages the two funds and said that hundreds of traditional financial firms bought spot bitcoin ETFs in ...