BlackRock also loves Bitcoin Runes? Arkham: ETF wallet received over $20,000 in rune airdrops

This site (120BtC.coM): Runes, a homogeneous token protocol launched simultaneously with Bitcoin’s fourth halving on the 20th, set off a market craze as soon as it was launched. Users The rush to mint rune tokens has greatly increased Bitcoin transaction fees. The total block reward for miners once reached ‎40.751 BTC, exceeding US$2.6 million.

BlackRock was airdropped with runes

What’s interesting is that BlackRock also passively participated in the rune craze. Blockchain data analytics firm Arkham noted on Thursday that two of BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF addresses hold Rune tokens currently worth more than $20,000, although there is currently no indication that BlackRock knows about or has access to the Runes. : I bet you didn’t know: BlackRock received over $20,000 worth of Runes token airdrops in 2 of its ETF wallets. How did this happen? Earlier this week, BlackRock addresses received an airdrop of a total of 1,887,240 RSIC・GENESIS・RUNE tokens, a rune etched by Runecoin at the time of the halving.

Rune No. 8 RSIC•GENESIS•RUNE was deployed by Runecoin. After Runecoin airdropped 21,000 RSIC inscriptions to the Ordinals community for free earlier this year, on the 20th An airdrop of RSIC•GENESIS•RUNE tokens was announced during the halving to users who held RSIC Inscriptions before the halving.

According to OKX market data, the current price of RSIC・GENESIS・RUNE tokens is 15.48 sats or 0.01 US dollars per coin, with a total market value of approximately US$202 million, ranking the third largest rune in market value, only behind Z •Z•Z•Z•Z•FEHU•Z•Z•Z•Z•Z AND DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON.

Arkham pointed out that two of BlackRock’s ETF addresses were inadvertently holding 4 RSICs so they could receive the rune airdrop: The RSIC inscriptions themselves came from the Coinbase Prime craze The wallet, was initially airdropped to Swissborg because they held other Ordinal series in their wallet (also unintentional).

major fund ETFs hold multiple inscriptions

Before the rise of the rune craze, the Bitcoin spot ETFs of major funds were found to hold multiple inscriptions, such as Ark Investment’s Bitcoin The address related to the currency spot ETF ARKB was found to hold Bitcoin Puppet NFT worth US$27,000, and BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF address was also found to hold the inscription "Speculum Aeternum", currently worth US$2,565.75.

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