Major financial institutions in the United States, including BlackRock, Fidelity, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, Invesco, and Bank of America, are actively working to provide access to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This comes after BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, filed an application for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The news sparked a wave of activity in the market, with the price of Bitcoin reaching a new high for the year before experiencing a slight correction. However, despite the interest from these institutions, the institutional march into Bitcoin is still in its early stages. The $27 trillion in assets managed by these institutions represents only a small portion that is expected to be invested in cryptocurrencies. Nonetheless, institutional interest in crypto has been growing, with the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF experiencing a significant increase in capital inflows.
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