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BlackRock

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113 articles – decelerating

Eleven spot bitcoin ETFs won SEC approval in January 2024, crystallizing BlackRock’s shift from applicant to a recurring institutional bridge into crypto and private-tech financing.

Who they are

BlackRock appears in this coverage as a major investment manager and capital provider whose role spans regulated crypto products, private-company share demand, and financing rounds. It is both a spot-bitcoin-ETF applicant using Coinbase Custody and a participant or co-lead investor in companies including Armada, ElevenLabs and Circle.

The recent arc

The coverage’s all-time high came in 2024Q1, driven by the SEC’s approval of 11 spot bitcoin ETFs, including BlackRock’s, and first-day trading in which BlackRock, Grayscale and Fidelity dominated volumes. That followed BlackRock’s 2023 filing for the iShares Bitcoin Trust, when the SEC had not yet approved a spot bitcoin ETF, and was extended by the 2024 approvals for spot ether ETFs.

The tension

The central thread is the institutionalization of crypto: BlackRock’s regulated-product push depended on SEC approval and Coinbase custody, while its ETF presence was measured against Fidelity and Grayscale in early trading. More recently, its participation with Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase in Open Standard places it inside a broader effort to connect large financial and payments firms to a reserve-earning stablecoin model.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, BlackRock’s coverage will increasingly be about its ability to bring institutional capital and distribution into markets that have historically sat between crypto infrastructure and private technology investing. Open USD, the Circle token financing and investments in AI and data-center-related companies point to several routes for that influence, though the corpus does not establish how much capital BlackRock will ultimately commit or how widely these initiatives will be adopted.

Related: Bitcoin · Bitcoin ETF · SEC · Coinbase · Fidelity · The US SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Grayscale, ARK 2

BlackRock has appeared in 113 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2024Q1 with 10 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Fidelity, Bitcoin, ETF, Microsoft.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-07-28
Meta Newsroom 29 related

Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, Texas, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028

Meta and BlackRock announce a venture to finance the development and operation of a data center campus in El Paso, Texas

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2026-06-12
Wall Street Journal 22 related

Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor

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2025-12-26
The Information 60 related

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global

Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq …

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2025-12-25
The Information 7 related

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global

Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq …

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2025-10-15
Financial Times 21 related

An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal

Buyer consortium also includes Nvidia and Microsoft and plans to expand Aligned Data Centers to meet computing demand

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2025-10-03
Bloomberg 9 related

Sources: BlackRock's GIP is in talks to buy Aligned, which operates 78 data centers across North and South America, in a deal that could value Aligned at ~$40B

BlackRock Inc.'s Global Infrastructure Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Aligned Data Centers, targeting a major beneficiary …

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2025-02-05
Bloomberg

Sources: BlackRock plans to hire ~1,200 people to build its AI teams in India and will inherit ~500 staff in Bengaluru through its proposed Preqin acquisition

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2024-07-01
Bloomberg 10 related

BlackRock acquires Preqin, a UK-based provider of private markets data, for £2.55B in cash; BlackRock expects alternative assets to reach nearly $40T by 2030

The acquisition deepens BlackRock's ability to oversee risks and analyze data across fast-growing markets for private assets …

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2022-12-25
Wall Street Journal 2 related

AT&T plans to launch broadband services in states it doesn't currently serve via a joint venture with BlackRock, initially reaching 1.5M customer US locations

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2022-12-24
Wall Street Journal 6 related

AT&T plans to launch broadband services in states it doesn't currently serve via a joint venture with BlackRock, initially reaching 1.5M customer US locations

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Narrative

BlackRock has appeared in 100 tech news articles since April 2015. The biggest stories include The US SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Grayscale, ARK 21Shares, Bitwise,... and Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to.... Frequently covered alongside Fidelity, ETF, Bitcoin ETF, Nvidia, and SEC. Coverage has shifted toward funding, competition themes and away from safety, developer.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety +23pts; developer -10pts; consumer -10pts
2024Q3safety -33pts; developer +20pts; consumer +20pts
2024Q4enterprise +25pts; developer -20pts; consumer -20pts

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