Crypto enthusiasts have sent a BlackRock-labelled wallet over $40,000 of coins and NFTs after the firm deposited $100 million in USDC onchain.
Asset managment giant BlackRock is now the owner of at least $40,000 in memecoins and nonfungible tokens , after onchain sleuths sniffed out one of its supposed wallets connected to a new tokenization fund.deposit was made on Ethereum on March 15 — exactly one day after the firm made a filing to offer itsUnnamed crypto users have sent at least 40 coins and 25 NFTs to the BlackRock-labeladdress since March 19, ranging from Bitcoin-based Ordinals Pepe coin to a CryptoDickbutts S3 NFT.
Exactly 500,000 unshETHing_Token and 10,000 Realio Network tokens were also transferred to the $10 trillion asset manager, which boasted the largest values at $13,755 and $11,600 respectively. Interestingly, the RIO token is a real-world asset tokenization coin which has pumped 47% since the token was transferred to BlackRock,Data shows the BlackRock address first made a $200 USDC deposit on March 5. The firm then made another $10 test deposit on March 15 before depositing $99,999,960 a few blocks later, according to Etherscan.
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