BlackRock Targets $50B Crypto Empire by 2030—Wall Street’s New Gold Rush?
Wall Street’s sleeping giant just woke up—and it’s hungry for crypto. BlackRock, the $10 trillion asset manager, is quietly positioning itself to dominate digital assets. Forget ‘maybe’—this is a $50 billion moonshot by 2030.
Why now? The institutional floodgates are open. Bitcoin ETFs? Old news. Ethereum staking? Table stakes. BlackRock’s playing chess while crypto bros meme about lambos.
But here’s the twist: this isn’t your 2017 bull run. We’re talking regulated, institutional-grade exposure—the kind that makes pension funds sweat and crypto purists shudder. The ultimate irony? Wall Street might finally ‘get’ crypto… just in time to own it.
One hedge fund manager quipped: ‘They’ll tokenize everything but their management fees.’ Touché.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $11.5 trillion in assets, is setting its sights on managing over $50 billion in crypto assets by 2030. The company aims to become the largest crypto asset manager globally, signaling strong long-term confidence in the digital asset space. As institutional adoption grows, BlackRock’s ambitious target highlights the increasing role of crypto in traditional finance and its plans to lead the charge in shaping the future of crypto investing.