Sonali Basak
Katherine Greifeld
BlackRock Inc. is trying its hand at potentially getting the first spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded fund launched in the US.
The world’s largest asset manager on Thursday applied for the iShares Bitcoin Trust, according to a with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest crypto exchange in the US, would act as custodian. The ETF, should it launch, would trade on Nasdaq.