On October 19, 2026, BlackRock filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF to provide upside exposure to IBIT up to an approximate limit while offering downside loss protection

The first and largest cryptocurrency, spanning its price and adoption, mining, protocol politics, and its contested role as digital money and inflation hedge.

Exchange-traded funds that hold Bitcoin for stock-market investors, with their fund flows, competing issuers and regulatory approvals.