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

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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TIMESTAMPS

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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RESOURCES

Robbie
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Blackrock
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