BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Now Invites Participation From Wall Street Banks

“If the SEC accepts this revised, dual model of create and redeem with cash and physical, that means the liquidity that supports the ETF shares when they trade would be increased, because obviously, you have more potential APs as part of the process,” CF Benchmarks CEO Sui Chung said in an interview. (CF Benchmarks is the Kraken-owned benchmarks administrator for several existing spot bitcoin ETF applications, including BlackRock’s.) “And although trading firms like Jane Street, etc. are large and are experts, they fundamentally don’t have the trillion-dollar plus balance sheets that large American banks have.”