{"id":97765,"date":"2026-06-01T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=97765"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:50:09","slug":"blackrock-records-1-26-billion-sale-of-ibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blackrock-records-1-26-billion-sale-of-ibit\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock Records $1.26 Billion Sale of IBIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major investor has reportedly exited a position in BlackRock&#8217;s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, through an over-the-counter transaction valued at $1.26 billion. On May 26, 29.21 million shares of IBIT changed hands off-exchange at $43.16 per share. The total transaction amounted to approximately $1.26 billion. The price was $1.01 below the fund&#8217;s market value, which stood at $44.17 at the time. The discount reached 2.3%, with analysts estimating execution losses at around $29.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major investor reportedly exited a position in BlackRock&#8217;s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, through an OTC deal worth $1.26 billion. On May 26, 29.21 million shares of IBIT were transferred off-exchange at $43.16 per share. The total transaction was approximately $1.26 billion. The price was $1.01 below the fund&#8217;s market value of $44.17, with a discount of 2.3% and estimated execution losses of about $29.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"A major investor reportedly exited a position in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, through an OTC deal.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oneliners"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"A major investor reportedly exited a position in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, through an OTC deal.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97767,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97765\/revisions\/97767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}