Breaking: After Coinbase Deal, Blackrock Launches Bitcoin Private Trust

After recently announcing a partnership with Coinbase, Blackrock has now launched a spot Bitcoin private trust. This development, coming from the world’s largest assets manager, could be a massive encouraging step for the crypto community. BlackRock is committed to providing clients with access to their choice of investment opportunities, it said on Thursday.

Blackrock Bitcoin Private Trust

With availability to U.S. institutional clients, the trust seeks to track the performance of bitcoin, less expenses and liabilities of the trust. Last month, Blackrock inked a partnership with Coinbase that will provide clients of Aladdin access to the digital assets trading lifecycle. The asset manager said it saw huge interest in cryptocurrencies from some of its institutional clients despite a market downturn.

“Despite the steep downturn in the digital asset market, we are still seeing substantial interest from some institutional clients in how to efficiently and cost-effectively access these assets using our technology and product capabilities.”

In a statement, Blackrock described Bitcoin as the oldest, largest, and most liquid cryptoasset. Bitcoin (BTC) is currently the primary subject of interest from our clients within the cryptoasset space, it added. “Excluding stablecoins, bitcoin maintains close to 50 percent of the industry’s market capitalization.”

After the Coinbase deal earlier this month, experts predicted huge positive news in terms of regulation in crypto. In long term, Blackrock’s official entry to the cryptocurrency market would be bullish, they said.

Works On Renewable Power Based Bitcoin Mining

Blackrock said undergoings works like evaluation of impact of market-based renewable energy purchases are encouraging signs. In an effort to assess if renewably-powered Bitcoin mining and hosting operations are sustainable, a study is underway. Energy Web and RMI, two non-profit organization are working on accelerating the energy transition and provide a certification program. These programs bring greater transparency to sustainable energy usage in bitcoin mining, and will follow progress around those initiatives, Blackrock explained.

The company said it was conducting work in four areas of digital assets, permissioned blockchains, stablecoins, crypto assets, and tokenization. The Blackrock Bitcoin private trust, going forward, provides greater impetus to large companies intending to invest in cryptocurrencies. The launch of the trust could also help lawmakers understand the scope of use cases derived from blockchain technology.

Meanwhile, crypto analysts believe Blackrock Bitcoin participation could burst BTC price to the range of $773,000. The partnership can boost Bitcoin market cap by a trillion dollars at the very least, predicted InvestAnswers. Also, BTC is showing great jump in price and social sentiment following the news of Blackrock Bitcoin private trust launch.