From Dismissal to Embrace: Wall Street Heavyweights Pivot Towards Crypto
The crypto industry is starting to turn even the biggest players on Wall Street to its side, with BlackRock being one of the biggest examples. The company’s founder and CEO, Larry Fink, was recorded saying that Bitcoin i...
Archive context
Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
The company’s founder and CEO, Larry Fink, was recorded saying that Bitcoin is “an index of money laundering” back in 2017.
Six years later, in 2023, the chief of the world’s largest asset manager submitted an application for Bitcoin spot ETF with the US SEC....
Read More: From Dismissal to Embrace: Wall Street Heavyweights Pivot Towards Crypto
Why this matters
This cryptocurrency story adds another data point to the current market tape and is useful when read alongside nearby source coverage.
Original source
Read on CryptonewsRelated market context
Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it
Grayscale's July 17 SEC filings said its Ethereum and Solana staking ETFs would convert staking rewards to cash and distribute the...
Slowing ETF demand and corporate treasury selling are breaking the math behind Wall Street’s $16 trillion Bitcoin target
Bitcoin market cap must rise to ARK Invest's roughly $16 trillion 2030 base case, requiring about 78.6% annual growth from the cur...
Crypto Stocks Break Free as Wall Street Buckles Under Iran Risk
U.S. crypto-linked stocks broke from a broader Wall Street sell-off Monday as bitcoin held above $64,000 while mounting tensions o...
OpenSea founder pivoted to AI — and won
OpenSea, once one of the most prominent companies in the cryptocurrency industry, has slowly been bleeding users and relevancy ove...
Wall Street Pushback Halts SEC's Crypto Fundraising Framework, Sources Say
The securities regulator cited an "unforeseen scheduling issue," but sources point to a legal threat from Wall Street trade group...
Wall Street Rewrote Crypto’s Rules With $11.2 Billion in Checks
Crypto firms raised $11.2 billion in H1 2026, all flowing to regulated businesses. BlackRock, Goldman and Gulf sovereigns now set...