{"id":66941,"date":"2026-01-08T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66941"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:34","slug":"blackrock-etf-chief-says-still-very-early-days-for-bitcoin-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66941","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock ETF Chief Says &#8216;Still Very Early Days&#8217; For Bitcoin, Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>BlackRock Inc.<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BLK\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BLK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BLK\">BLK<\/a>) U.S. head of equity ETFs <strong>Jay Jacobs<\/strong> on Wednesday said that despite billions in inflows, crypto ETFs remain in their early days as financial advisors only recently gained platform access.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Financial Advisors Just Getting Access To Crypto ETFs<\/h3>\n<p>Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/01\/06\/where-crypto-etfs-could-be-headed-in-2026.html\">told<\/a> CNBC\u2019s \u201cETF Edge\u201d that many investors are still starting their educational journey on what <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is and how it fits in a portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bigger shift is unfolding among financial advisors who previously lacked access to crypto or were unable to buy the <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"IBIT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\">IBIT<\/a>) until their platforms approved it.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, BlackRock is seeing a broader group of people who can now invest in crypto and are interested in the asset class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49793131\/blackrock-etf-chief-says-still-very-early-days-for-bitcoin-ethereum?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"BlackRock\" etf chief says very early days for bitcoin ethereum>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) U.S. head of equity ETFs Jay Jacobs on Wednesday said that despite billions in inflows, crypto ETFs remain in their early days as financial advisors only recently gained platform access. Financial Advisors Just Getting Access To Crypto ETFs Jacobs told CNBC\u2019s \u201cETF Edge\u201d that many investors are still starting their educational journey [&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-66941","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\/66941","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=66941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}