{"id":48188,"date":"2025-10-14T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/?p=48188"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:31:16","slug":"blackrock-to-develop-tokenization-tech-as-bitcoin-etf-passes-100-billion-in-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/blackrock-to-develop-tokenization-tech-as-bitcoin-etf-passes-100-billion-in-assets","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock to Develop Tokenization Tech as Bitcoin ETF Passes $100 Billion in Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>BlackRock is developing its own technology to tokenize a broad range of assets, from real estate to equities and bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEO Larry Fink said the global market currently holds more than $4.5 trillion in digital wallets, spanning crypto, stablecoins, and tokenized assets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of that money is outside the United States,\u201d Fink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-LPit2bEWAo&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on CNBC earlier today, emphasizing the opportunity for the firm to reach new investors through digital channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fink said tokenization could allow investors who are entering markets through crypto to access more traditional long-term products, such as retirement funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we could tokenize an ETF, we could get them into the more traditional long-term retirement products,\u201d he said, pointing to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-reclaims-122000-as-blackrock-bitcoin-etf-surpasses-800000-btc-aum\">BlackRock\u2019s digital platforms<\/a>, which include tokenized money market funds and Bitcoin investments that have grown to over $100 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink announces that their spot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bitcoin<\/a> ETF IBIT is &quot;now over $100 billion&quot; in assets \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O1tQW2UV9A\">pic.twitter.com\/O1tQW2UV9A<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1978105614246027625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fink also said yesterday that Bitcoin and crypto \u201cserve same purpose as gold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/blackrocks-ibit-bitcoin-etf-is-the-most-successful-new-etf-in-4-years\">launched<\/a> just 21 months ago, is <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-as-ibit-breaks-etf-records\">BlackRock\u2019s most profitable fund<\/a> \u2014 outranking even products that have been in circulation for more than two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm\u2019s growth extends beyond digital assets. Fink highlighted record inflows across ETFs, private markets, AI-driven equity strategies, and investment technology platforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just one product area. It was not just one region. It was a completeness,\u201d he said, noting the breadth of <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/blackrock\">BlackRock\u2019s<\/a> growth across business lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fink credited the firm\u2019s strategy of combining active and passive management, public and private markets, and technology overlays for driving this expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BlackRock, tokenization and long-term investing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fink also stressed the value of long-term investing in his chat: \u201cIt\u2019s not about if our market\u2019s going up or down, is there a bubble in crypto or technology. It\u2019s about being in the market throughout the cycle,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He underscored the power of compounding over decades, noting that even a small additional return can significantly grow a retirement portfolio over a 30-year horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, Fink said regulatory clarity in the U.S. and further investment in digital asset innovation will be critical to supporting market growth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just at the beginning of the tokenization of all assets,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm expects that over the coming decades, tokenized financial products will allow investors to remain within a digital ecosystem while accessing the full spectrum of traditional and alternative investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackRock is developing technology to tokenize a wide range of assets and expand its digital investment offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3817,"featured_media":48190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[76,212,79,556,78,979],"class_list":{"0":"post-48188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-markets","9":"tag-bitcoin","10":"tag-bitcoin-etf","11":"tag-blackrock","12":"tag-blockchain","13":"tag-larry-fink","14":"tag-tokenization"},"author_data":{"id":3817,"name":"Micah Zimmerman","nicename":"micahzimmerman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micah_Zimmerman_Author_Image.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BlackRock-to-Develop-Tokenization-Tech-as-Bitcoin-ETF-Passes-100-Billion-in-Assets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}