Four U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETFs Are Now Ranked Among the Top 20 Best ETF Launches in History

Four U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have made it to the top 20 best ETF launches in history, one year after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the first spot Bitcoin ETFs.

The SEC’s approval on Jan. 10, 2024, brought 11 spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs to U.S. exchanges. The launches coincided with Bitcoin’s rally to a new all-time high in March 2024, crossing the $100,000 mark before facing a correction.

While the market has seen significant growth since these ETFs began trading, the records they have broken stand out a year later.

On Jan. 10, 2025, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart shared a summary of spot BTC ETFs one year down the line.

Among the milestones highlighted by Seyffart, four spot Bitcoin ETFs are included in the list of the top 20 ETF launches of all time.

The ETFs in question are BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC), Ark/21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), and Bitwise’s Bitcoin ETF (BITB). Notably, BlackRock’s IBIT ETF surpassed $50 billion in assets under management in less than a year. For comparison, the asset manager’s gold ETF took nearly 20 years to cross $30 billion in AUM.

“Just how big was the first year for Bitcoin ETFs? Massive,” Seyffart noted. “Even if you inflation adjust the assets, 4 of the Bitcoin ETFs are in the top 20 US ETF launches of all time. $IBIT, $FBTC, $ARKB, and $BITB.”

IBIT ETF tops the list of best ETF launches in history, while FBTC, ARKB, and BITB rank fourth, 16th, and 18th, respectively.

“A key takeaway of mine here is that even the two ETFs from comparatively small issuers ARK/21 Shares and Bitwise which “only” have ~$4 billion each are still in the top 20 launches of all time. That’s crazy,” the analyst added.

VanEck’s HODL ranks 99, CoinShares Valkyrie’s BRRR 162, Invesco Galaxy’s BTCO 196, Franklin Templeton’s EZBC 199 and WisdomTree’s BTCW at position 384.

The total net assets in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs amounted to over $106 billion as of Jan. 9, 2025, according to data from SoSoValue, which accounts for roughly 5.74% of Bitcoin’s total market capitalization.