Bitcoin Buying Metric With Average 109% Gains Flips Green At $88k (2026)

Bitcoin institutions bought more BTC than miners added to the supply in the first week of 2026 as a classic BTC price bull signal began to repeat.

Bitcoin (BTC) buying is back in 2026 as institutions acquire more BTC per day than miners produce.

Institutions are now “net buyers” of Bitcoin for eight days straight, a dedicated tracking metric reports.

Sustained net buying has resulted in average BTC price upside of nearly 110% since 2020.

Bitcoin is due a relief bounce after three months of losses.

The latest data from quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments shows institutional buys beating mined supply by over 75%.

After a period of uncertainty over the new year that followed two months of demand breakdown, major corporate players are interested in BTC exposure again.

Capriole’s Net Institutional Buying metric, which includes purchases by corporate treasuries and the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has now recorded eight “green” days in a row.

This means that on each of those days, net institutional buying appetite was more than the BTC added to the supply by miners. On Monday, this “excess” demand totaled 76%.

“Institutions are once again net buyers of Bitcoin,” Capriole founder Charles Edwards commented in response to the data in a post on X.

Source: CoinTelegraph