Annex A
The iShares® Bitcoin Trust ETF
All information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® Bitcoin Trust ETF (the "IBIT Fund") has been derived from
publicly available information, without independent verification. This information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, the
sponsor of the IBIT Fund, iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC ("iShares Delaware"), an indirect subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Fund Advisors, a California corporation that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., is the trustee of the IBIT Fund.
The Bank of New York Mellon is the cash custodian of the IBIT Fund and Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC is the bitcoin
custodian of the IBIT Fund. The IBIT Fund is an investment trust that trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol
"IBIT."
The IBIT Fund seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of bitcoin before the payment of its expenses and liabilities. The
assets of the IBIT Fund consist primarily of bitcoin held by the bitcoin custodian on behalf of the IBIT Fund. The IBIT Fund issues blocks
of shares in exchange for deposits of bitcoin and distributes bitcoin in connection with the redemption of blocks of shares. The shares of
the IBIT Fund are intended to constitute a simple and cost-effective means of making an investment similar to an investment in bitcoin.
The shares of the IBIT Fund represent units of fractional undivided beneficial interest in and ownership of the IBIT Fund. The IBIT Fund
is a passive investment vehicle that does not seek to generate returns beyond tracking the price of bitcoin and the sponsor of the IBIT
Fund does not actively manage the bitcoin held by the IBIT Fund. The trustee of the IBIT Fund sells bitcoin held by the IBIT Fund to pay
the IBIT Fund's expenses on an as-needed basis irrespective of then-current bitcoin prices.
Currently, the IBIT Fund's only ordinary recurring expense is expected to be iShares Delaware's fee, which is accrued daily at an
annualized rate equal to 0.25% of the net asset value of the IBIT Fund and is payable at least quarterly in arrears. The trustee of the
IBIT Fund will, when directed by iShares Delaware, and, in the absence of such direction, may, in its discretion, sell bitcoin in such
quantity and at such times as may be necessary to permit payment of iShares Delaware's fee and of expenses or liabilities of the IBIT
Fund not assumed by iShares Delaware. As a result of the recurring sales of bitcoin necessary to pay the IBIT Fund sponsor's fee and
the IBIT Fund expenses or liabilities not assumed by the IBIT Fund sponsor, the net asset value of the IBIT Fund and, correspondingly,
the fractional amount of bitcoin represented by each share will decrease over the life of the IBIT Fund. New deposits of bitcoin, received
in exchange for additional new issuances of shares by the IBIT Fund, do not reverse this trend.
Information provided to or filed with the SEC by the IBIT Fund pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-272680 and 001-41914, respectively,
through the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. The IBIT Fund is not a mutual fund or any other type of investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder. The IBIT Fund is not a
commodity pool for purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder, and
iShares Delaware is not subject to regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity pool operator or a
commodity trading advisor.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a digital asset the ownership and behavior of which are determined by participants in an online, peer-to-peer network that
connects computers that run publicly accessible, or "open source," software that follows the rules and procedures governing the bitcoin
network, commonly referred to as the bitcoin protocol. The value of bitcoin, like the value of other digital assets, is not backed by any
government, corporation or other identified body. Ownership and the ability to transfer or take other actions with respect to bitcoin are
protected through public-key cryptography. The supply of bitcoin is constrained or formulated by its protocol instead of being explicitly
delegated to an identified body (e.g., a central bank) to control. Units of bitcoin, called tokens, are treated as fungible. Bitcoin and
certain other types of digital assets are often referred to as digital currencies or cryptocurrencies. No single entity owns or operates the
bitcoin network, the infrastructure of which is collectively maintained by (1) a decentralized group of participants who run computer
software that results in the recording and validation of transactions (commonly referred to as "miners"), (2) developers who propose
improvements to the bitcoin protocol and the software that enforces the protocol and (3) users who choose what bitcoin software to run.
Bitcoin was released in 2009 and, as a result, there is little data on its long-term investment potential. Bitcoin is not backed by a
government-issued legal tender or any other currency or asset. Bitcoin is "stored" or reflected on a digital transaction ledger commonly
known as a "blockchain." A blockchain is a type of shared and continually reconciled database, stored in a decentralized manner on the
computers of certain users of the digital asset. Bitcoin is created by "mining." Mining involves miners using a sophisticated computer
program to repeatedly solve very complex mathematical problems on specialized computer hardware. Miners can be bitcoin
enthusiasts but increasingly are professional mining operations that design and build dedicated machines and data centers as the
computing power required to solve the problem continues to increase significantly.