Unless the implication is that it was Bitwise or Vaneck and they went ahead anyways because Saylor was acting as an agent for Fidelity and Blackrock who are his largest shareholders as Darth points out.

That's a possibility. Blackrock and Fidelity don't want to donate to devs and know that funds that do will get some of the AUM that would have went to them. That seems feasible to me.