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World's largest asset manager and issuer of IBIT, the dominant spot Bitcoin ETF. Now an aggressive crypto product builder.
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Recent BlackRock coverage
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The 'Crypto President's' Own Media Company Just Quit the Bitcoin ETF Market Before Selling a Single Share
Trump Media's Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here's why the market murdered them before launch.
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Trump Typed 7 Words and $657 Million in Crypto Vanished
A single Truth Social post warning Iran 'the clock is ticking' sent Bitcoin below $77K and triggered the biggest crypto liquidation event since February — wiping out leveraged longs in hours.
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Italy's $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.
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40% of the CEOs Trump Flew to China Have Crypto Ties — and Bitcoin Just Noticed
Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.
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Senate Drops 309-Page Crypto Law at Midnight — Democrats Are Blocking It to Stop Trump From Cashing Out
The most comprehensive crypto regulation in US history goes to a Senate committee vote Thursday. Republicans left out the one clause that would stop senior government officials from personally profiting off the industry they're regulating. Democrats say no ethics, no votes.
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Circle Built a Blockchain Where Gas Fees Cost Dollars — BlackRock & a16z Just Paid $222M to Get In
Circle raised $222M from BlackRock, a16z, and Apollo for Arc, a Layer 1 where USDC is the native gas token. $3B valuation, 100+ institution testnet, and a direct shot at Ethereum's institutional market.
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Congress Banned Stablecoin Yield. BlackRock Just Filed Two Funds That Give It Back.
The world's largest asset manager quietly filed SEC paperwork for two tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to let stablecoin holders earn Treasury yield — the same yield that Congress just voted to ban stablecoins from paying. The loophole is elegant. The implications are massive.
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Wall Street Built a VIX for Bitcoin — And It Goes Live June 1
CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.
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A Crypto Exchange Just Bought Wall Street's Back Office for $4.2 Billion
Bullish, the Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange, is acquiring Equiniti — the transfer agent behind 20 million shareholders and $500 billion in annual payments — in one of the largest crypto deals ever. Wall Street's plumbing is going on-chain.
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JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and the CFTC Chair All Showed Up to Crypto's Biggest Conference — on the Same Day Bitcoin Hit $81K
Consensus Miami 2026 opened with a jaw-dropper: Wall Street didn't just attend — they sponsored. Institutional attendance doubled to 35% of the crowd, representing $10 trillion in AUM. Bitcoin noticed.
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Bitcoin Has Crashed After 8 of Powell's Last 9 Fed Meetings. He Has One Left.
Tomorrow is Jerome Powell's final FOMC press conference before Kevin Warsh takes the chair on May 15. Bitcoin is up 21% since early April — and history says the 48 hours after a Fed decision are the most dangerous window in crypto.
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Ethereum's Biggest Rivals Just Pooled $300M to Bail Out a North Korean Hack — and It Might Actually Work
DeFi United drops its technical rescue blueprint today, with Consensys, Aave, Compound, the Solana Foundation and 14 other protocols pledging $300M+ in ETH to re-collateralize rsETH after the $292M Lazarus-linked KelpDAO exploit. This is the most coordinated cross-protocol rescue in DeFi history.
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The Weekly Grind (Apr 21–Apr 27): $606M DeFi Hack Frenzy & U.S. Crypto Derivatives Race
DeFi hacks hit $606M in 18 days, while Kalshi and Polymarket battle for the U.S. crypto derivatives market.
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Morgan Stanley Just Made Itself the Fed for Stablecoins — Tether and Circle Now Pay It Interest
Morgan Stanley's new MSNXX Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio quietly makes the $200B wealth manager the preferred reserve custodian for the entire stablecoin industry under the GENIUS Act.
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One Company Now Controls More Bitcoin Than BlackRock — And It Just Bought $2.54 Billion More
Strategy's 815,061 BTC hoard just eclipsed BlackRock's ETF holdings after a record $2.54B single purchase. Michael Saylor says he's not done.
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Morgan Stanley Just Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Costs Half as Much as BlackRock's
MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock's IBIT fee — making Wall Street's biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.