Crypto News– Last week’s market turbulence likely prompted some investors to proceed with caution, as digital asset investment products experienced a week of net outflows.
Bitcoin investment funds experienced weekly outflows totaling 110 million Dollars
According to data from digital asset investment firm CoinShares, total outflows from digital asset investment products amounted to $126 million, with bitcoin-related funds alone witnessing outflows of $110 million.
James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, characterized these outflows as minor, but observed investor hesitancy following a slowdown in bitcoin’s price momentum.
While trading volumes increased slightly from $17 billion to $21 billion week-over-week, activity in exchange-traded products (ETPs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) decreased relative to the overall market. ETP/ETF activity accounted for 40% of total volumes on trusted exchanges over the last month, dropping to 31% last week, indicating a cautious sentiment among investors.
James Butterfill
The trend appears to continue, with all spot bitcoin ETFs collectively experiencing daily outflows of $36.7 million on Monday. Notably, Grayscale’s GBTC led the pack in fund outflows, with $110 million, although cumulative outflows were partially offset by BlackRock’s IBIT ETF, which saw $73.4 million in inflows, the sole fund to register positive inflows for the day.
Yesterday's ETF flows by @FarsideUK
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We had another negative day with $36.7 million of outflows.
All of this was of course coming from $GBTC with $110.1 million outflows.
Blackrock was the only ETF that had any inflows, which was $73.4 million.
Overall sentiment is quite bad.… pic.twitter.com/9Hriss4fd0
While many altcoins enjoyed a generally positive week, the same cannot be said for the leading altcoin, ether, which experienced outflows totaling $29 million, the highest on a relative basis.
Solana, another prominent altcoin, also saw outflows, with funds tied to SOL experiencing withdrawals of $3.6 million over the week. On the other hand, investment products linked to the native tokens of projects like Decentraland (MANA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), and Lido (LDO) recorded inflows of $4.9 million, $2.9 million, and $1.8 million respectively.
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