The asset management firm pledged public transparency following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approving the listing of its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund shares.
Asset management firm Bitwise made the Bitcoin (BTC) addresses of its spot BTC exchange-traded fund public roughly two weeks after the listings were available for trading.
In a Jan. 24 X post, the firm announced “anyone can verify” holdings for its Bitwise Bitcoin ETF under the ticker BITB on the New York Stock Exchange Arca. At the time of publication, the address provided by Bitwise contained 11,858.63 BTC, worth roughly $465 million.
“Onchain transparency is core to Bitcoin’s ethos,” said Bitwise. “We’re proud to walk the walk with BITB [...] Publishing on-chain addresses is a first step toward increasing public transparency.”
