On September 21, iShares Bitcoin Trust rose 3.17% in pre-market trading, trading at $47.43/share, with turnover of $15.20 million. The move came as Bitcoin surged past $82,000, buoyed by a convergence of regulatory and institutional catalysts.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an Innovation Exemption order granting a five-year conditional waiver for tokenized securities venues to trade tokenized NMS stocks on-chain using permissioned automated market-maker liquidity pools. The measure, launched after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate with only 49 votes, was widely viewed as a pivotal regulatory green light for digital asset infrastructure.

Separately, JPMorgan flagged Bitcoin as offering greater upside potential than gold, citing two structural factors: Bitcoin ETF fund inflows have recovered only about 50% of prior outflows versus full recovery for gold ETFs, and elevated short interest in IBIT creates conditions for a potential short squeeze. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $593 million in net inflows over the final two trading days of the week, flipping the weekly balance to a narrow $6.1 million net positive. Bitcoin also posted its first weekly close above the 50-week moving average in 45 weeks, a technical signal historically associated with bear-market bottoms.

The iShares Bitcoin Trust seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of bitcoin.

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