{"id":1316,"date":"2025-07-08T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:36:14","slug":"blackrock-ishares-bitcoin-etf-surges-past-700k-btc-in-record-breaking-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/blackrock-ishares-bitcoin-etf-surges-past-700k-btc-in-record-breaking-run\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock iShares Bitcoin ETF Surges Past 700K BTC in Record-Breaking Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cover-wrap yf-1rjrr1\">\n<div class=\"cover-headline yf-1rjrr1\">\n<h1 class=\"cover-title yf-1rjrr1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1318  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/82006d097fbd1b684eccb697e8f4d01d.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" 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aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body-wrap yf-40hgrf\">\n<h2 class=\"type-section-sm-bold yf-gjjls9\">In This Article:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ticker-list yf-pqeumq\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"scroll-carousel yf-r5lvmz\" data-testid=\"carousel-container\">\n<div class=\"carousel-top yf-pqeumq\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"name yf-90gdtp\"><span class=\"symbol yf-90gdtp\">IBIT<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ticker-wrapper yf-90gdtp has-follow\"><a class=\"ticker medium hover2 border has-follow streaming extraPadding yf-90gdtp\" title=\"IBIT\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/IBIT\/\" data-testid=\"ticker-container\" aria-label=\"IBIT\" data-ylk=\"elm:qte;elmt:link;itc:0;sec:ticker-tag-module;slk:IBIT\" data-rapid_p=\"4\" data-v9y=\"1\"><span class=\"d60f3b00 d5882186\">-1.27%<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"follow yf-90gdtp extraPadding\">\n<div class=\"menuContainer follow-btn yf-1l5q6k1\">\n<div class=\"icon fin-icon secondary-icn sz-medium yf-1iuxsdd\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"name yf-90gdtp\"><span class=\"symbol yf-90gdtp\">BLK<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ticker-wrapper yf-90gdtp has-follow\"><a class=\"ticker medium hover2 border has-follow streaming extraPadding yf-90gdtp\" title=\"BLK\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/BLK\/\" data-testid=\"ticker-container\" aria-label=\"BLK\" data-ylk=\"elm:qte;elmt:link;itc:0;sec:ticker-tag-module;slk:BLK\" data-rapid_p=\"6\" data-v9y=\"1\"><span class=\"d60f3b00 d5882186\">-0.57%<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"follow yf-90gdtp extraPadding\">\n<div class=\"menuContainer follow-btn yf-1l5q6k1\">\n<div class=\"icon fin-icon secondary-icn sz-medium yf-1iuxsdd\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"name yf-90gdtp\"><span class=\"symbol yf-90gdtp\">BTC-USD<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ntv-ARTICLE-BODY-TOP-pencil-0\" class=\"native-ad tw-mb-4 ntv-ARTICLE-BODY-TOP-pencil-0 yf-jvh5da trc_related_container tbl-trecs-container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_pencil-a\" data-testid=\"ad-container\" data-ad-mode=\"pencil-a\" data-ad-region=\"main-dynamic\" data-ad-placement=\"taboola-pencil-0\" data-ad-target-type=\"mix\" data-placement-name=\"taboola-pencil-0\">\n<div class=\"trc_rbox_container\">\n<div id=\"trc_wrapper_9532427234\" class=\"trc_rbox pencil-a trc-content-sponsored\">\n<div id=\"outer_9532427234\" class=\"trc_rbox_outer\">\n<div id=\"rbox-t2m\" class=\"trc_rbox_div trc_rbox_border_elm\">\n<div id=\"internal_trc_9532427234\">\n<div class=\"videoCube trc_spotlight_item origin-default textItem thumbnail_start videoCube_1_child syndicatedItem trc-first-recommendation trc-spotlight-first-recommendation\" data-item-id=\"~~V1~~7668035070240535569~~B1ZyDCk16d5k4QOVWav_3ST1rnOIeFljrtwaISWguB5w6cLzOYgYTH58zK8cIqqSdQ_HL8ofboRqIhAfUMqanRIAHgVU1hyoWcFRuaKrKfNQyTtFHF-wd_4MdNmbatlho0dG-lBo_uvm7XzCp_nj_5I5OpGEADfF2oH8ePWQ3zg-jLD3Q7AJKWri2OKU07k2UCIhcigDKLqfXahALYKC6pyzoIxoC417jfc9Cr-vWxigNjeq_SEt8EY1iizLo63j\" data-item-title=\"Register &amp; Receive NGN500,000 Immediately\" data-item-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.taboola.com\/libtrc\/static\/thumbnails\/d315b08cc561009e873455e3c69c9587.jpg\" data-item-syndicated=\"true\">BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) now holds 700,000 bitcoin (BTC), according to Glassnode data, and has amassed $76 billion in assets under management in just 18 months, outstripping both the iShares Core S&amp;P 500 ETF (IVV), which tracks the U.S. equity benchmark, and iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM), which tracks the performance of small-cap U.S. stocks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body yf-1ir6o1g\">\n<div class=\"atoms-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wrapper yf-eondll\" data-testid=\"inarticle-ad\">\n<div id=\"sda-INARTICLE-7636f9cc-17b3-37eb-bb6f-fd51e45a016d-1\" class=\"sdaContainer dv-all sda-INARTICLE-7636f9cc-17b3-37eb-bb6f-fd51e45a016d-1 yf-1m4k8v7 overflow margin visible placeholder\" data-testid=\"ad-container\" data-ad-unit=\"\/22888152279\/us\/yfin\/ros\/mw\/us_yfin_ros_mw_mid_center\" data-ad-size=\"300x250,320x50,300x600,2x2,3x2,fluid\" data-ad-region=\"main-dynamic\" data-ad-loc=\"mid_center\" data-google-query-id=\"CJmKrs2NrY4DFdccigMdk5MpiA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/22888152279\/us\/yfin\/ros\/mw\/us_yfin_ros_mw_mid_center_0__container__\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The figures beats the 600,000 BTC held by Strategy (MSTR), which started purchases in 2020, and compares with Fidelity FBTC&#8217;s 203,000 BTC and Grayscale GBTC&#8217;s 184,000 BTC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cNew milestone, iShares Bitcoin ETF now holds over 700,000 BTC.\u00a0<em>700,000\u00a0<\/em>Did this in 18 months. Ridiculous,\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NateGeraci\/status\/1942402697388294356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nate Geraci;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"10\" data-v9y=\"1\">Nate Geraci<\/a>, president of The ETF Store, commented in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) debuted in January 2024 and have become the most successful ETF introductions of all time. Since inception, they have attracted\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/farside.co.uk\/btc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:$50 billion in net inflows;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"11\" data-v9y=\"1\">$50 billion in net inflows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">IBIT is now the third highest revenue-generating ETF for BlackRock across all its ETF products. Senior Bloomberg ETF analyst\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1940828030852833786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric Balchunas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"12\" data-v9y=\"1\">Eric Balchunas<\/a>\u00a0noted that BlackRock operates a total of 1,197 funds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Van Straten Tue, July 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM GMT+1\u00a01 min read In This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","wpucv-grid-three":"","wpucv-grid-two":"","wpucv-grid-one":"","wpucv-classic":"","wpucv-classic-small":"","wpucv-galary":"","covernews-slider-full":"","covernews-slider-center":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","covernews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"info":["vicrollion"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/category\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/category\/finance\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Finance<\/a>","tag_info":"Finance","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}