BlackRock to keep focus on BTC, ETH ahead of crypto ETF ‘explosion’
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New US crypto ETF launches remain on pause given the ongoing government shutdown.
This just means there’s more time to make sense of what the upcoming product wave will look like — and how the world’s largest asset manager will (or won’t) participate.
Being on the Digital Asset Summit stage in London last week with BlackRock’s Matt Kunke and 21Shares’ Mandy Chiu gave me a unique chance to explore the different product development approaches of a TradFi incumbent and a crypto-centric firm.
With the SEC offering generic listing standards around what crypto assets would be allowed in the ETP wrapper, Kunke noted:…
