A BlackRock XRP trust’s fictitious business registration caused a market spike and subsequent decline. The registration, which is still accessible on Delaware’s Division of Corporations’ website, is consistent with the company’s previous lawful registrations. Daniel Schweiger and BlackRock Advisors are listed as registered agents. Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, claims that BlackRock representatives have stated that the file is fraudulent. The announcement caused the price of Ripple (XRP) to rise by as much as 10% before dropping. Following the denial, the price returned to roughly $0.65, the level it was before the news.
According to the story, BlackRock appears to be expanding its portfolio of cryptocurrency-related companies, which already included registering an Ethereum trust last week. The bogus information also follows another occurrence of a similar nature, wherein a fictitious headline regarding the approval of a BlackRock bitcoin ETF momentarily caused the market to rise. No spot Bitcoin ETF has been authorised as of yet. Nevertheless, after the erroneous story, the incident inspired BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to address the “pent-up interest in crypto” in remarks to the media. “I believe that this rally is about a flight to quality with all the…issues around the Israeli war now [and] global terrorism,” Fink stated at the time. “Some of this rally is way beyond the rumour.”
