BlackRock’s Crypto Visionary Joseph Chalom Joins SharpLink as Co-CEO

TL;DR

• Joseph Chalom, who pioneered crypto at BlackRock and built the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ethereum funds, will become Co-CEO of SharpLink Gaming ($SBET).
• SharpLink is a leading public holder of ETH, and under Chalom’s leadership, aims to activate its treasury through staking, restaking, and DeFi yield.
• This move exemplifies Web3’s growing pull for top institutional talent and pushes Ethereum’s momentum as the backbone of modern capital markets.

Joseph Chalom

For two decades at BlackRock (the world’s largest asset manager), Joseph Chalom as Head of Digital Asset Strategy, was at the heart of three seismic industry firsts:

• IBIT: The world’s largest Bitcoin ETP, opening doors for traditional investors to access the leading digital asset with unprecedented scale.
• ETHA: The world’s largest Ethereum ETP, bringing institution-grade ETH exposure to the mainstream portfolio.
• BUIDL: The world’s largest tokenized investment fund proving that real-world assets on Ethereum aren’t theory, but a multibillion-dollar fact.

Chalom helped take digital assets from the industry’s edge to its center. His reputation: a builder, a bridge for institutional capital, and a strategist who understands not just how markets work, but how they’re changing.

“At BlackRock, we didn’t just talk about digital assets. We built the products that made them a core holding for institutions everywhere”, Chalom says.

Why SharpLink?

So why does a globally recognized innovator leave the world’s investment giant for a Web3-native company? For Chalom, the answer is vision and velocity.

SharpLink ($SBET) is no ordinary Nasdaq firm. It is now one of the largest public corporate holders of Ethereum, but the story isn’t just about amassing ETH. Under Chalom, the plan is to activate that ETH, putting treasury assets to work through:

• Native staking
• Restaking
• DeFi-based yield strategies

Proud to welcome Joseph Chalom @joechalom as Co-CEO of @SharpLinkGaming.

Having led the digital asset strategy at BlackRock that brought IBIT, ETHA, and BUIDL to life, Joseph laid the groundwork for institutional adoption of crypto at scale.

Ethereum is entering its next… https://t.co/q9Q97jMKba

— Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph) July 25, 2025

Ethereum in Finance

Chalom’s decision to join SharpLink is a thunderclap endorsement for Ethereum’s destiny. He says it plainly:

“Stablecoins, tokenized assets, AI agents, they’re all moving onchain. And it’s happening on Ethereum. That’s where the future is being built”.

The implications are extraordinary:

• Stablecoins are emerging as global settlement rails.
• Tokenized funds and assets unlock liquidity and transparency.
• AI and programmable finance thrive in a composable environment.
• ETH becomes the backbone of corporate treasury innovation.

TradFi in DeFi

Chalom’s step symbolizes a movement: top-tier institutional leaders are migrating to crypto-native companies, bringing with them experience, compliance acumen, and the creativity to connect worlds. SharpLink’s executive suite now blends blockchain culture with decades of Wall Street insight.

In Chalom’s words:

“We’re building a bridge between institutional capital and Ethereum-native yield—packaged in a single public equity”.

With Chalom , SharpLink aims to make its SBET stock an equity wrapper for Ethereum yield, a way for public investors to access the on-chain capital allocation without the technical hurdles.

Context: The Corporate Ethereum Wave

• GameSquare, BTCS, Bitmine and others have recently expanded ETH treasuries and started activating them in DeFi.
• Public corporate ETH holdings have now surged past 1,000,000 ETH, redefining what it means to be “Web3-native” at the highest levels of business.

Read more here: /2025/07/24/gamesquares-10-million-ethereum-buy-the-new-corporate-gold-rush/

The Joseph Chalom Touch

Industry insiders know: Chalom’s track record is more than numbers or titles. He’s the rare leader who shaped the very tools now fueling global crypto adoption. At BlackRock, he brought visionary ideas to life for billions of dollars in assets, always with an eye towards risk management, compliance, and unlocking real-world adoption.

Now at SharpLink, he’s set to make the ETH treasury not just bigger, but smarter and more productive, turning what was once seen as speculative into a source of genuine, recurring value.

“This chapter isn’t just about one company, or even one chain. It’s about proving that Ethereum can underpin the next era of global finance”.

What happens when the architects of mainstream finance go all-in on building in web3? We’re about to find out.

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