BlackRock

Overview

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager. In June 2026, it participated in prometheus’ $12billionSeriesBata$41 billion valuation — signaling institutional confidence in industrial AI and physical-world engineering automation.

Recent Developments

• 2026-08-04: First European on-chain fund access — 12 tokenized share classes across 6 ICS MMFs ($311B underlying AUM) via kinexys on Ethereum (2026-08-04-blackrock-europe-tokenized-mmf-kinexys)

Warning

$311B is underlying ICS fund AUM, not on-chain / tokenized AUM. Transfer agent remains authoritative for the shareholder register (on-chain-share-class, 2026-08-04-blackrock-europe-mmf-decrypt).

• 2026-07-30: Adjacent market-infra context — ICE/MarketAxess fixed-income consolidation and Clarity Act delay narrative for tokenization pathways (2026-07-30-ice-acquires-marketaxess-5-7b)

• 2026-07-29: Expected to use bny digital-transfer-agency for planned BSTBL tokenized MMF share class for stablecoin reserves (planned — not live) (2026-07-29-bny-digital-transfer-agency)

• 2026-06-11: Investor in Prometheus Series B alongside JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, Arch Venture Partners

Related

• ucits

• buidl

• on-chain-share-class

• market-infrastructure-consolidation

• intercontinental-exchange

• bny

• tokenized-money-market-funds

• prometheus

• jpmorgan

• ai-investment-trends

• venture-capital

• physical-ai

Sources

• 2026-06-11-prometheus-12b-funding
• 2026-06-11-prometheus-funding-axios