BlackRock IBIT could be world largest ETF in 10 Years, Saylor predicts
Bitcoin as the treasury strategy of the future
During Bitwise’s “Bitcoin Standard Corporations Investor Day,” Michael Saylor told an audience of corporate executives and institutional investors that BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF — IBIT — could become the largest ETF in the world within the next 10 years.
Saylor, a long-time Bitcoin advocate, believes institutional adoption is just beginning. As more companies embrace Bitcoin in their treasury strategies, demand for Bitcoin-backed financial instruments will drive growth.
Launched on January 11, 2024, BlackRock’s IBIT became the fastest-growing ETF in history, surpassing $10 billion in assets within just seven weeks. As of April 23, 2025, IBIT's net assets exceeded $53 billion, with an annual return of approximately 37.31%.
Bitcoin as the treasury strategy of the future
While IBIT still trails giants like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, which manages $573 billion in assets, Saylor argued that IBIT could quickly catch up if Bitcoin triples in price.
He called Bitcoin a “new anchor” for corporate treasury strategy and said companies are waking up to the reality that cash is weak and unstable in the long term. Bitcoin, according to Saylor, is “better than cash” — future-proof money that can protect firms against inflation.
Saylor emphasized that the demand for Bitcoin-related financial products like ETFs will surge as more companies allocate treasury reserves to Bitcoin instead of letting inflation erode their fiat holdings.
As we wrote, at the Economic Club of New York on Monday, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that the market could potentially experience an additional 20% drop, even as he described the current downturn as a “buying opportunity.”
