{"id":35670,"date":"2025-07-08T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35670"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:17:07","slug":"blackrock-ishares-bitcoin-etf-surges-past-700k-btc-in-record-breaking-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35670","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock iShares Bitcoin ETF Surges Past 700K BTC in Record-Breaking Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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>\u201cNew milestone, iShares Bitcoin ETF now holds over 700,000 BTC. <em>700,000 <\/em>Did this in 18 months. Ridiculous,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NateGeraci\/status\/1942402697388294356\">Nate Geraci<\/a>, president of The ETF Store, commented in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/farside.co.uk\/btc\/\">$50 billion in net inflows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>IBIT is now the third highest revenue-generating ETF for BlackRock across all its ETF products. Senior Bloomberg ETF analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1940828030852833786\">Eric Balchunas<\/a> noted that BlackRock operates a total of 1,197 funds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-35670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}