Odaily Planet Daily News: Six months after the launch of the Bitcoin spot ETF, BlackRock's asset management scale hit a record high. According to BlackRock's second-quarter financial report released on Monday, as of June 30, BlackRock's assets under management reached US$10.65 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 13%. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said in a statement that organic growth was driven by a surge in private markets, retail fixed income and funds flowing into ETFs. BlackRock's total net inflows in the second quarter reached US$82 billion, and net inflows in the first half of this year reached US$139 billion. Since the launch of IBIT at the beginning of this year, BlackRock has become the world's largest Bitcoin spot ETF. IBIT currently holds 316,276 bitcoins, worth approximately US$18.3 billion. (Decrypt)