BlackRock is launching a new crypto ETF that not only tracks the price of Ethereum (ETH) but also provides staking rewards. The fund, the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), begins trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday.
It is BlackRock’s third crypto ETF and the company’s first to integrate staking. The fund holds Ethereum and deploys part of it on the network to generate additional returns.
ETF combines price and strike
With the new fund, BlackRock wants investors to benefit from two things at once: the price movement of Ethereum and staking rewards.
Ethereum works with a so-called proof-of-stake system. In doing so, holders lock up their tokens to monitor transactions and keep the network secure. In return, they receive rewards that can be compared to interest on a savings account.
BlackRock is not the first to incorporate this into an ETF. Asset manager Grayscale activated staking for its Ethereum products back in October 2025. In January 2026, the company became the first American provider to pay out staking rewards to investors.
Grayscale now offers several products, including an Ethereum Staking ETF, an Ethereum Staking Mini ETF and a Solana Staking ETF. Parties such as Rex Shares, Osprey Funds and 21Shares have also launched Ethereum ETFs with staking.
What makes BlackRock’s new ETHB fund especially special is the scale of the company. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager and can therefore reach a much wider audience.
By adding staking, investors can earn extra returns through a regular ETF, without having to manage crypto tokens themselves.
BlackRock is rapidly building a crypto empire
The fund further expands BlackRock’s crypto offering. The asset manager already has two major crypto ETFs on the market. The iShares Bitcoin Trust now manages more than $55 billion in assets, the iShares Ethereum Trust approximately $6.5 billion.
In total, BlackRock now manages around $130 billion in crypto-related products, including ETFs, tokenized funds and stablecoin reserves. According to the company, iShares was responsible for approximately 95% of all inflows into digital asset ETPs by 2025.
Institutional interest is growing
BlackRock expects the new fund to attract both private investors and large institutional parties. The annual fee is 0.25 percent, but to get the fund up and running faster, BlackRock temporarily reduces this to 0.12 percent for the first $2.5 billion of assets in the first year.
According to Jacobs, many institutional investors currently still invest relatively small amounts in digital assets. This often concerns about 1 to 2 percent of their total portfolio.
Still, BlackRock sees that as an important starting point. According to Jacobs, crypto ETFs are only at the beginning of their adoption.
Source: https://newsbit.nl/blackrock-lanceert-ethereum-etf-met-staking-beleggers-kunnen-nu-rendement-verdienen/
