BlackRock research paper examines AI's impact on digital assets
- —Annual AI infrastructure investment could top $700 billion by 2030, over 2% of US GDP
- —Stablecoin market cap surpassed $250 billion by late November 2025
- —BlackRock manages roughly $150 billion in digital assets
- —Bitcoin miners could benefit from AI demand for computing power and data center leasing
Why it matters: The world's largest asset manager is framing institutional crypto exposure around BTC, ETH and stablecoins as AI settlement rails.
Source: Crypto Briefing