Blackrock is the world’s largest asset manager with approximately $11.6 trillion in assets under management and currently owns more than 567,000 Bitcoins (BTC), worth over $47.8 billion – making asset managers one of the world’s largest BTC holders.
According to Arkham Intelligence, the latest BTC acquisition by Asset Manager occurred on March 14, when Coinbase Prime Wallet transferred 268 BTC to Asset Manager’s Ishares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) wallet worth more than $22 million.
Track OnChain funds to and from BlackRock. source: Arkham Intelligence Agency
Data from Arkham also shows that asset managers hold more than 1.2 million ether (eth), worth more than $2.3 billion, about $70 million (USDC) (USDC) Stablecoin and a long list of altcoins.
Bitcoin Exchange Trading Funds (ETFs) are extensive Quote As the most successful ETF launch in history, as asset managers such as BlackRock, driving hundreds of millions of dollars of liquidity to the cryptocurrency market and Destroy cyclical capital rotation This is a characteristic of crypto investment.
BlackRock’s cryptocurrency. source: Arkham Intelligence Agency
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Encrypted ETFs have gone through four weeks of outflow
Encrypted ETFs have gone through Four consecutive weeks of outflow Due to macroeconomic uncertainty and concerns, in February and early March 2025 A long trade war.
According to Coinshares, the recent market decline totaled $4.75 billion, with a $876 million outflow recorded in the week of March 9.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Fund experienced $193 million outflows in the week of March 9, with all BTC ETFs recording $756 million in monthly traffic.
Weekly crypto fund traffic shows that the recent economic downturn is a four-week outflow. source: coin
Despite increased volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty, BlackRock Added IBIT to its model combination February 2025.
BlackRock’s model portfolio is a preset investment plan that contains a range of diversified financial instruments and different risk profiles. The portfolio is promoted to asset managers, who push preset investment plans to investors.
Including ETFs or assets in a model portfolio can greatly increase asset inflows by attracting fresh capital.
In the case of IBIT, investors including ETFs in preset portfolios will make investors more passive in Bitcoin, and those investors have to comply with digital assets or conduct any OnChain transactions.
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