‘Successful’ ETH ETF less perfect without staking — BlackRock

">">BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, described the firm’s Ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) as a “tremendous success” but acknowledged a key limitation. Speaking on March 20 at the Digital Asset Summit, he noted that the ETF is “less perfect” without staking, highlighting a crucial feature absent from the current offering.“A staking yield is a meaningful part of how you can generate investment return in this space,” Mitchnick said. “And all the [Ether] ETFs, of course, at launch did not have staking. So, if that is able to get resolved...”However, adding staking to Ether ETFs is no simple task, according to Mitchnick. “It’s not as simple as a new administration just green-lighting something, and then boom, we’re all good, off to the races,” he said. “There’s a lot of fairly complex challenges that have to be figured out, but if that can get figured out, then I think it’s gonna be sort of a step change upward in terms of what we see the activity around those products is.”Panel at Digital Asset Summit 2025 with Joseph Lubin (middle) and Robbie Mitchnick (right). Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElYvaq0JTQ

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