BlackRock took another step toward introducing its bitcoin income exchange-traded fund on Nasdaq, filing a share registration document that often signals an imminent debut.
The world’s largest asset manager filed the Form 8-A for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF on Thursday, usually one of the last procedural moves before an ETF goes live.
The filing “typically means launch in one week,” Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, wrote on X, adding that he would bet the fund, ticker BITA, starts trading on June 18.
BlackRock filed an 8-A for the Bitcoin Premium Income ETF $BITA. That typically means launch in one week. So if I had to bet I’d say next Thur $BITA goes live. We’ll see tho. pic.twitter.com/jvJY8yhslh
— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) June 11, 2026
Balchunas said a day earlier that he expected the fund to debut “very soon” and noted BlackRock was racing to beat a competing Goldman Sachs product to market. Goldman’s fund is due to go live around July 1.
BlackRock’s fund will earn income by selling call options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the largest spot bitcoin ETF, with $49 billion in net assets. Each month, it will write options on a portion of its holdings and collect the premium as income.
