Bitcoin's price gains push BlackRock's ETF above $2 billion in assets under management
Bitcoin’s rising price on Friday is spurring BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF to become the first of the new products to reach $2 billion in assets under management.Grayscale’s converted fund has about $20 billion in AUM.
As the price of bitcoin rose on Friday, BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF is positioned to reach the milestone of having $2 billion in assets under management with the firm's newly launched product continuing to dominate the new class of exchange-trade funds.
Bitcoin BTC +5.66% jumped by about 5% on Friday, rising above $42,000 for the first time in more than a week, according to The Block's Price Page . That's enough to value the 49,952 bitcoin the fund held as of Jan. 25 at more than $2 billion assuming there are no net outflows on Friday, making BlackRock's new ETF the first among completely new spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds to hit that threshold.
Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF has about $20 billion in AUM, according to data posted by a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst, but its product is a conversion of its flagship fund GBTC.
"The bitcoin price has pushed IBIT's assets beyond $2 billion. This plus likely new flows today should mean it will be above $2 billion at close," Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart wrote in a post on X.
Total trading volume for spot bitcoin ETFs has surpassed $22 billion since investors gained the ability to buy and sell the instruments earlier this month, according to Yahoo Finance data compiled by The Block .
Overall volume slowing as AUM grows
The top three spot bitcoin ETFs by trading volume have been those offered by Grayscale, BlackRock and Fidelity, which has nearly $2 billion in AUM. Products launched by Ark Invest and Bitwise each have more than $500 million in assets under management.
Volume has been slowing since the first day of trading, when buying and selling of the new products hit $2.3 billion, according to to Yahoo Finance data compiled by The Block.
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