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BlackRock files for a bitcoin ETF with loss protection and capped gains

The world's largest asset manager wants to launch PBIT, a bitcoin fund that limits losses by giving up part of the upside. For now it is only a filing with the SEC.

الحدث: 19 أكتوبر 2026
المصدر الأساسي: 19 أكتوبر 2026
نُشر هنا: 20 أكتوبر 2026 في 09:00 ص UTC
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ماذا حدث

On 19 October BlackRock filed a prospectus with the SEC, the US market regulator, for the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, ticker PBIT. The fund will not hold bitcoin. It buys and sells options on BlackRock's own bitcoin ETF, IBIT. An option is a contract that gives the right to buy an asset at a set price.

لماذا يهمك

It is a way to hold bitcoin with a cushion. Per the prospectus, each set of options starts with a maximum loss of about 10%. The price is a ceiling: above a certain level you do not get the gains.

ماذا تتحقق منه وتراقبه

The fee and the exchange are still blank in the prospectus. The filing asks to take effect 75 days after it was filed. The fund itself warns the protection is not fixed and losses can be bigger.

PBIT prospectus on SEC EDGAR

BlackRock filed the papers with the SEC on 19 October. It is a preliminary prospectus: it says plainly that the information is incomplete and may change, and that shares cannot be sold until the registration takes effect.

How it works. The fund holds three overlapping sets of options on IBIT or a similar bitcoin asset. Each month one set expires and a new one is added. The fund buys options that give the upside and sells others to help pay for them. The sold options set the ceiling. Part of the money sits in bonds, and their interest also helps pay for the protection.

About the protection. For each set, protection typically starts at about 90% of the asset's price when the options are bought. So the maximum loss per set is about 10% before fees. But the fund can move these levels, and the sets start at different times. So, as BlackRock writes, the fund has no fixed protection level, floor or cap. If bitcoin rises first and then falls, the loss from the new level can be more than 10%.

Context. Cointelegraph calls PBIT BlackRock's third bitcoin fund after IBIT and BITA, a fund that earns income by selling options. IBIT is the world's largest spot bitcoin ETF, with $65.7B in assets according to the outlet. Similar buffered funds already exist from Calamos, First Trust and Innovator. BlackRock still has no spot ETFs for Solana or XRP.

حقائق مؤكدة

  • On 19 October 2026 BlackRock filed a preliminary prospectus with the SEC for the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF (PBIT).[1][2]
  • The fund does not invest directly in bitcoin or bitcoin exchange-traded products; it uses options on IBIT or similar bitcoin assets.[1]
  • The fund typically holds three overlapping sets of options; each month one expires and a new one is added.[1]
  • For each set, the initial maximum loss is about 10% before fees, with protection starting at about 90% of the asset's value.[1][2]
  • The fund warns it does not provide a fixed protection start value, floor or cap.[1][2]
  • The filing asks to take effect 75 days after filing; the fee is left blank in the prospectus.[1]
  • IBIT has $65.7B in net assets.[2]

التبعات

  • مؤكدIf the fund launches, cautious investors get a BlackRock bitcoin product with limited losses, but also limited gains.
  • قراءتناBlackRock is growing its line-up with new strategies on bitcoin and ether rather than new coins.

لا يزال مجهولًا

  • What the fee will be and which exchange will list it.
  • Where exactly the cap will sit: the sold options set it, and it will change.
  • When the fund will launch: the SEC can ask questions and timing can slip.

من يتأثر

US. Anyone who wants bitcoin but fears deep drops

المصادر

  1. US SEC (EDGAR), iShares Trust: Form 485APOS: iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF prospectus 19 أكتوبر 2026 · رسمي
  2. Cointelegraph: BlackRock files for third Bitcoin ETF, still no Solana or XRP 20 أكتوبر 2026 · إعلام
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