Crypto: Spot Bitcoin Etfs Attract $1.42b In Strongest Week Since Early October

Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted their strongest week since October as institutional investors returned via regulated products, helped by reduced whale selling and tightening effective supply.

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $1.42 billion in net inflows over the past week, marking their strongest weekly performance since early October amid a renewed return of institutional demand.

According to data from SoSoValue, inflows into spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs peaked midweek, with Wednesday recording the largest single-day net inflow of roughly $844 million, followed by $754 million on Tuesday.

Despite late-week pullbacks, including a $395 million outflow on Friday, the sequence of large midweek inflows pushed the weekly total to $1.42 billion, the strongest since early October when the funds attracted $2.7 billion.

Inflows into Ether (ETH) ETFs were also front-loaded earlier in the week, with the largest single-day net inflow of roughly $290 million recorded on Tuesday, followed by about $215 million on Wednesday. The weakest session came later in the week, with net outflows of roughly $180 million on Friday, trimming weekly gains to approximately $479 million.

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Vincent Liu, chief investment officer at Kronos Research, said the pattern suggests long-only allocators are re-entering after a period of caution.

“ETF inflows point to long-only allocators re-entering via regulated channels,” Liu told Cointelegraph. “ETF absorption alongside whale stabilization implies tightening effective supply and a more risk-on market environment.”

Liu said onchain indicators show that large holders, often referred to as whales, have reduced net selling compared with late December, easing a key source of distribution pressure. When combined with steady ETF buying, the result is a market where available supply appears to be tightening, even as price volatility persists.

However, he cautioned that the shift remains early-stage rather than conclusive. “This is an early phase of the shift, rather than full confirmation,” he said, adding that renewed inflows, reduced whale selling and improving market structure point to a more durable institutional bid forming beneath the market.

Source: CoinTelegraph