IShares BTC ETF Bitcoin Holdings Surge Past 700K in Record-Breaking Run

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) now holds 700,000 bitcoin

, based on Glassnode knowledge, and has amassed $76 billion in belongings below administration in simply 18 months, outstripping each the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), which tracks the U.S. fairness benchmark, and iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM), which tracks the efficiency of small-cap U.S. shares.

The figures beats the 600,000 BTC held by Strategy (MSTR), which began purchases in 2020, and compares with Fidelity FBTC’s 203,000 BTC and Grayscale GBTC’s 184,000 BTC.

“New milestone, iShares Bitcoin ETF now holds over 700,000 BTC. 700,000 Did this in 18 months. Ridiculous,” Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, commented in a publish on X.

The U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) debuted in January 2024 and have turn into essentially the most profitable ETF introductions of all time. Since inception, they’ve attracted $50 billion in internet inflows.

IBIT is now the third highest revenue-generating ETF for BlackRock throughout all its ETF merchandise. Senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas famous that BlackRock operates a complete of 1,197 funds.