Traders simply pulled almost $3.8 billion from U.S.-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds over 5 straight weeks, the longest outflow streak since February 2025.
Final week alone noticed $316 million vanish, in response to SoSoValue.
Main the outflows development is BlackRock’s IBIT. The fund has misplaced $2.13 billion over 5 straight weeks of outflows.
This exhibits establishments are nonetheless steering away from the main cryptocurrency, extending the aversion that kicked in after the early October crash, which uncovered its vulnerability to shenanigans on offshore exchanges resembling Binance.
Whereas the newest outflows development matches the one from February final yr in size, it isn’t as unhealthy, with simply $3.8 billion yanked versus $5 billion again then. That prior streak paved the best way for a market swoon over the next weeks, with bitcoin falling as little as $75,000 in early April.
Proper now, bitcoin is already buying and selling effectively under that stage, altering arms slightly below $65,000 as of writing.
Analysts have attributed the continued danger aversion to lingering U.S.-Iran tensions, President Donald Trump’s contemporary international tariff announcement, and technical price-chart elements.”
