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BlackRock submits IBIT update, MoonPay's Lindsey Haswell to join the fund's board

Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, wrote that BlackRock has just submitted an IBIT update, and Lindsey Haswell from MoonPay will join the board of the fund, replacing Kimun Lee.

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