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BlackRock, Ondo, Superstate: The Biggest Movers in the RWA Sector in Q1

Catching up on the biggest news from the real-world asset space.

globe held in someone's hand (Greg Rosenke/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Videos

Binance Nigeria Money Laundering Trial Delayed; Fmr FTX Europe Head Pays $1.5M for Titanic Memento

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including the delay of Binance Nigeria's money laundering trial to May 17. Plus, asset management giant BlackRock expects a new wave of inflows from different types of investors, and former head of FTX Europe Patrick Gruhn paid nearly $1.5 million for a gold pocket watch recovered from the Titanic.

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BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Sees First-Ever Day of Outflows

BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF product IBIT recorded its first-ever day of outflows on Wednesday, with $36.9 million exiting the fund. According to data source Farside Investors and CoinGlass, the 11 spot BTC products in the U.S. saw a cumulative net outflow of $563.7 million, the largest since the funds began trading in January. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Finance

BlackRock Sees Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions Coming to Bitcoin ETFs

The asset manager has been helping educate pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds about the new spot bitcoin ETF products, BlackRock’s head of digital assets said.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

RWA Tokenization Firm Securitize Raises $47M Led by Fund Partner BlackRock

BlackRock and Securitize last month teamed up to create the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, which may prove to be geared toward RWA tokenization

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

BlackRock's BUIDL Becomes Largest Tokenized Treasury Fund Hitting $375M, Toppling Franklin Templeton's

BlackRock's first tokenized offering, created with Securitize, has captured almost 30% of the $1.3 billion tokenized Treasury market in just six weeks.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Hedera's HBAR Doubles as Market Misinterprets BlackRock's Involvement in Tokenization, Then Falls 25%

The market gave back some of its earlier gains after realizing BlackRock wasn't directly involved in the tokenization on Hedera's blockchain.

HBAR Foundation said "BlackRock fund is tokenized," Crypto Twitter heard "BlackRock has tokenized fund." (Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Spot Bitcoin ETF Hype Dies Down, Normalcy Sets In

It's hardly unusual for ETFs of any ilk to go through periods of seeing no fresh money on a net basis, explained an analyst.

The 10 spot bitcoin ETFs on Monday experienced their first net inflows in a week (Jim Wilson/Unsplash)

Finance

There Are Many Bitcoin Critics Left in Finance, Despite BlackRock's Newfound Love

At a recent gathering of investors in Miami, skepticism remained high even after finance titan BlackRock's shift toward touting the original cryptocurrency.

Investment pros gathered here in Miami, and many trashed bitcoin. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ondo Spikes 8% as Ondo Finance Tests Instant Conversion From BlackRock's Tokenized Fund to USDC

Stablecoin issuer Circle introduced a new smart contract function earlier Thursday to allow near-instant, around-the-clock redemptions from BlackRock's BUIDL fund for USDC stablecoins.

Ondo price on April 11 (CoinDesk)