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BlackRock’s ETHB has reached $254 million in AUM, with $146 million flowing in since its March 12 debut.
The fund stakes 70–95% of its ETH and passes 82% of staking rewards to traders by month-to-month funds.
ETHB enters a market the place Grayscale and REX-Osprey already supply staked Ethereum merchandise.
BlackRock’s iShares Staked Ethereum Belief has reached $254 million price of belongings underneath administration after launching per week in the past. Which means traders have purchased $146 million price of shares for the reason that fund debuted, on prime of greater than $100 million seeded within the fund.
BlackRock launched the iShares Staked Ethereum Belief (ETHB) on Nasdaq on March 12, with the seed capital coming from BlackRock Monetary Administration, an affiliate of iShares. The brand new fund stakes between 70–95% of its ETH holdings and passes 82% of ensuing rewards to traders by month-to-month funds, with the remaining 18% cut up among the many belief, custodians, and staking service suppliers.
The fund’s validators embrace Figment, Galaxy Blockchain Infrastructure, and Attestant. ETHB costs a 0.25% sponsor charge, discounted to 0.12% for its first 12 months on as much as $2.5 billion in belongings. It entered a market the place Grayscale and REX-Osprey had already launched competing staked Ethereum merchandise.

Ethereum did have a bullish rally above $2,300 earlier this week, however however has since fallen alongside Bitcoin and the remainder of the market. On the time of writing, ETH was altering arms for $2,126 after having dropped 4% previously day.
The Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF added staking in October 2025 and renamed the fund to replicate its new staking exercise in January. The fund noticed combined outcomes its first week as a staking ETF, seeing a web outflow of $32.5 million. However Grayscale had the misfortune of including staking to its ETF the identical week {that a} Bitcoin flash crash triggered a $19 billion leverage wipeout final October, dragging down the remainder of the crypto market.
In the meantime, the Grayscale Ethereum Staking Mini ETF was shaped in April 2024, though it did not initially launch with staking. That wasn’t added till October 6, 2025, the identical week the ETHE fund added staking.
The BlackRock providing is totally different from each the Grayscale ETH funds as a result of it was conceived and launched with staking, relatively than including the function later.
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