Despite ending the last day of the week with inflows, Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States closed out the week with a net outflow.
United States Spot Bitcoin ETFs closed the week with a net outflow for the first time since September 6.
According to data from SoSoValue, cryptocurrency markets experienced a shift in investor sentiment last week as US Bitcoin ETFs encountered a substantial $301.54 million outflow. This pivot in market sentiment comes following the transition into October, which caused the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to reverse the majority of the gains made throughout September.
Moreover, this occurrence follows three consecutive weeks of steady inflows, with the previous week ending at a total net inflow of $1.11 billion.
On Friday, these ETFs did attract net inflows amounting to $25.59 million as the sentiment began to change and the price of Bitcoin returned to $62,000. The Bitwise BITB fund and the Fidelity FBTC received $15.29 million and $13.63 million in inflows, respectively, which was enough to counterbalance an outflow of $13.91 million from the Grayscale GBTC fund. However, this late-week inflow was not enough to counterbalance the broader trend of outflows that dominated the rest of the week.
These ETFs, which started the first day of the week with an inflow of $61.30 million, immediately reversed the trend and had net outflows of $242.53 million, $91.76 million, and $54.13 million on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. By the close of the week, the total net value of the US Spot Bitcoin ETFs stood at $57.73 billion, a 5.68% drop from $61.21 billion recorded on September 27.
Ethereum ETFs Encounter Net Weekly Outflow, Bitcoin ETFs Drop to $57.73 Billion
In addition to Bitcoin ETFs, Spot Ethereum ETFs also encountered a week of net outflows to reverse the previous week’s inflows. According to data from SoSoValue, the Spot Ethereum ETFs also witnessed $7.39 million in inflows on the last day of the week. However, this wasn’t enough to counterbalance the outflows earlier in the week, eventually ending the week at a net outflow of $30.69 million.
It is worth noting that the netflow data of Spot Ethereum ETFs has been lagging behind that of Spot Bitcoin ETFs for months now. Data shows that since launch, the Ethereum ETFs have only had two weeks of net inflow. The latest inflow week was registered last week after six consecutive weeks of outflows.
At the time of writing, US-based Spot Bitcoin ETFs hold $57.73 billion worth of Bitcoin. This translates to 4.68% of the total Bitcoin market cap. US-based Spot Ethereum ETFs also hold $6.66 billion worth of Ethereum, which is about 2.28% of the total Ethereum market cap.