NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — Robert Mitchnick, the head of digital assets at the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, said that despite the launch of spot Ethereum ETFs this week, it’s unlikely to open the door to funds that track other crypto assets like Solana’s SOL or Polygon’s MATIC, on the mainstage at the Bitcoin 2024 conference. 

“I don't think we're going to see a long list of crypto ETFs,” Mitchnick said in a conversation with Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart. “If you think of bitcoin, today it represents about 55% of the market cap. ETH is at 18%. The next plausible investible asset is at, like, 3%. It’s just not close to being at that threshold or track record of maturity, liquidity, et cetera.”

That said, it has been “increasingly clear” that crypto as …