Quick Read – Morgan Stanley’s MSBT launched on April 8, 2026, as the first spot Bitcoin ETF from a major U.S. bank, pulling in over $100 million in its first eight days entirely from self-directed clients. – MSBT charges 0.14% annually, the lowest fee of any Bitcoin ETF on the…
rket, undercutting BlackRock’s IBIT (0.25%), Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust (0.15%), and Bitwise (0.20%). – Morgan Stanley oversees $9.3 trillion in total client assets across 16,000 financial advisors, yet MSBT wasn’t even available on the bank’s advisory wealth platform during its first weeks—meaning the fund’s $233M AUM is almost entirely driven by clients who sought it out themselves. – The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks. Get them here FREE
Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) has crossed $233 million in AUM (total assets under management) in just one month of trading. By almost any standard, that represents a strong launch. However, what makes this ETF’s early growth particularly striking is that the fund was raised without a single Morgan Stanley financial advisor cleared to recommend it.
Almost every dollar of the $233 million came in because clients went looking for it, which tells you something important about where Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ETF demand is heading and who’s about to unlock it. Here’s all you need to know about MSBT and why it is growing so fast. The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks.