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BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, offering index and active funds, ETFs (including iShares and spot Bitcoin ETFs), and advisory services.
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Ondo Finance launched three tokens that each hold a rebalanced basket of its tokenized stocks and ETFs, using strategies BlackRock designed. Using the tokens as DeFi collateral is so far only a possibility Ondo has named.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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Standard Chartered has placed a dedicated DeFi research desk beside its ETF and stablecoin access, citing DeFi value locked that reached $114bn in 2025. The move makes on-chain research part of the access layer the bank sells, grouped with the custody and trading it already offers.
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U.S. spot Ether ETFs lost a net $118 million in the week to Oct. 2, after taking in about $689.8 million the week before. The selling shrank as the week went on, and with ETH stuck under $2,800, Glamsterdam's Oct. 6 Sepolia activation is the dated event to watch.
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ARK Invest bought about $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares days before Cathie Wood urged investors to track where AI agents spend money. For now ARK's money is on the compute agents consume, and the fight over which payment network they use is still being argued in papers and protocols.
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BlackRock's IBIT took in $195.6 million on a day all US spot Bitcoin ETFs together netted $102.7 million, so the other funds sold a net $92.9 million. Over 30 days its $1.57 billion is just over half the category's $2.99 billion, so its rivals are still gathering money.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $102.7 million on October 1, a tenth of September 21's $999 million, as Bitcoin neared $87,000. That leaves the Fed's October 27-28 meeting, more than the seasonal record, to decide whether fund buyers return in size.
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Shareholders approved about 80% of 2026 Texas reincorporation proposals, Pay Governance found, though ISS and Glass Lewis opposed nearly all of them. Support varied by company, so a board weighing the move needs a case built on its own ownership and pay record.
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Coinbase opened OUSD transfers on four chains on October 1, a day after the stablecoin it co-owns went live. Because Coinbase is one of its owners, the speed mostly shows Coinbase's own incentive; the case against USDT and USDC depends on venues and businesses that hold no equity.
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Nvidia's $500 billion plan to finance AI buildouts against its own GPUs had closed no deals by early October. The first transactions will show whether lenders are pricing the chips or the customers renting them.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs have taken in about $3.1 billion over nine trading days, lifting their year-to-date net inflows to roughly $1 billion. Ether and Zcash funds slipped into small outflows after week-long inflow runs, in sums too small to show money leaving altcoins for Bitcoin.
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Ford, Carhartt, BlackRock and Google's trades alliance says training produces 55% of the 1.7 million skilled workers needed each year through 2035. Its apprenticeship data put much of the loss after recruits enroll, where employer money reaches people already in the pipeline.
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Bitcoin's CMBI benchmark closed near $83,113, just under the $84,000-$85,000 band where Glassnode counts more long-term holder coins than at any other price. With futures leverage at its lowest since March, spot buyers and sellers will decide whether the band holds.
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Ford, BlackRock, Google and Carhartt's trades alliance puts U.S. skilled-trades openings at 1.7 million a year through 2035, across 124 occupations. At the report's training rate the country falls about 765,000 workers short each year, and whether the fix is recruiting or retention depends on what that rate counts.
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Ten-year Treasury yields reached 5.27%, the highest since June 2007, with real yields supplying 66 of the five-year's 72bp monthly rise. The bond market is pricing a strong economy, while Goldman Sachs finds the median S&P 500 stock already 16% below its 52-week high.
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Ondo Finance is selling three BlackRock-modelled portfolio tokens issued by a British Virgin Islands entity that alone owes holders anything. A buyer paying for the BlackRock name holds Ondo's paper, and BlackRock's part is limited to designing the allocation.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $2.4 billion in the week to September 25, lifting 2026 net flows to about $934 million from a $5.8 billion deficit in mid-July. That week supplied roughly a third of a $6.7 billion climb, so the recovery is two months old.
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Goldman Sachs says half of S&P 500 members sit 16% or more below their 52-week highs while the index is about 1% off its record. The gap points to a few heavily weighted AI stocks carrying the index as Treasury and European bond yields keep climbing.
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Tokenized Treasury and money-market funds rose from $2.99 to $11.39 per $100 of stablecoins in two years, according to Crypto Briefing. Whether three big issuers own most of that growth depends on which estimate of the category's size is right.
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