Opinions of the company BlackRock Inc. BLK) reports its results for the first quarter of 2026 on Tuesday, April 14, showing a significant difference between its digital assets and its AUM (assets under management).
In the first three months of 2026, BlackRock attracted $935 million in total revenue for its digital products, according to its quarterly report. reportas analyzed by Finbold on April 15. The asset management company, which was reported to have an AUM of about $13.9 trillion, saw its digital assets withdraw $18.7 billion amid the crypto market selloff. Thus, for every dollar invested in BlackRock’s digital currency, the market lost about twenty.
In addition to the loss of $ 5 million due to FX, BlackRock’s digital assets closed the first quarter with $ 60.7 billion. Like Finbold before reportcompany iShares Bitcoin Trust (It will go) increased his holdings by about 15,000 Bitcoin (BTC) during Q1, bringing its total to 785,240 BTC.
BlackRock iShares Ethereum Trust fundETHArecorded a decrease of about 410,750 Ethereum (The price of ETH) in Q1, which brought its revenue to about 3.06 million units.
BlackRock’s digital asset is going down in the ocean, for now
BlackRock’s digital assets business closed the first quarter of 2026 with less than 0.5% of its total AUM. Likewise, the group totaled $42 million in initial payments, representing approximately 0.77% of the $5.4 billion in total initial funding and 0.63% of the $6.7 billion it received.
But throughout the year, BlackRock’s digital assets were $32.3 billion of $744 billion in new assets, which represents only 4.3%. However, BlackRock, led by Larry Fink, continued to more than double its revenue in the first quarter.
For example, BlackRock launched the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (The price of ETHB) in March 2026, including Ethereum’s transparency and high yields. Also, the company filed of the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), a Bitcoin-focused fund to generate yield through call strategies on existing IBIT assets.
