What Are BlackRock’s Crypto Plans? | Robbie Mitchnick Head Digital Assets at Blackrock

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That’s right, Bankless Nation, BlackRock on the podcast today.

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, a company that manages over $10 trillion dollars in assets around the world, to put it in perspective, that’s 5 times the crypto market cap. Let’s just say what they do has ripple effects in global markets.

But here at Bankless we wanted to figure out what they’re doing in crypto. That’s why we brought Robbie Mitchnick, BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets.

We explore Crypto narratives in TradFi, how they measure the risk profile of Crypto, their plans for the future of ETFs, Tokenization and even DeFi.

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0:00 Intro 5:36 What is BlackRock? 7:33 BlackRock’s Crypto Arc 14:42 Digital Assets Team 17:01 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF 20:33 Investor Education 22:48 Narratives 24:58 Risk Management 34:04 Regulatory Environment 38:27 The Future of ETFs 42:30 Tokenization 51:00 What Needs to be Built 54:26 The State of DeFi 57:03 BlackRock’s Crypto Mission 1:00:44 Closing & Disclaimers

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Robbie https://x.com/robbiemitchnick

Blackrock https://x.com/BlackRock

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