American multinational investment company, Black Rock has witnessed a significant pause in investments for its Spots bitcoin ETF, iShare's bitcoin Trust (IBIT). With ETF provider recording its longest duration zero flow periodThere may be chances that investor interest in bitcoin Spot ETFs is waning.
BlackRock Sees Zero bitcoin ETF Flows
Despite being the Largest bitcoin Spot ETF Provider, BlackRock has surprisingly encountered zero inflow activity for about three days. From Wednesday, April 24 to Friday, April 27, BlackRock recorded 0.0 entries, x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1783474040469860482?s=46″ rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>rip is x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1783515319023124896?s=46″ rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>longest record streak of 71 daily entries.
According to an x (formerly twitter) x.com/whalepanda/status/1784072215782146052?s=46″ rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>mail from Whale Panda, over the three days, Spot bitcoin ETFs from global asset management companies like Grayscalefidelity and bit by bit bitcoin/bitcoin-spot-etf-outflows/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>recorded departures worth millions of dollars. GBTC witnessed total outflows of $352.2 million, while FBTC and BITB accumulated approximately $25.4 million and $9.8 million, respectively.
At that time only a handful of bitcoin spot ETFs saw inflowsincluding Ark 21Shares bitcoin ETF, ARKB, Franklin Templeton's bitcoin ETF, EZBC and Fidelity's, accumulating total inflows of $9.6 million, $1.9 million and $5.6 million, respectively.
After the temporary suspension of bitcoin-news/bitcoin-etf-frenzy-blackrock-smashes-expectations-with-788-million-inflows-in-one-day/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>IBIT Entries and increased outflows from other bitcoin Spot ETFs, bitcoin/spot-bitcoin-etfs-outflows/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>the price of bitcoin witnessed a sharp decline. Over the past week, the world's largest cryptocurrency saw a massive 6.29% decline and another 2.56% drop in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap. These constant falls have pushed btc/bitcoin-price-grinds-lower-62k/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>bitcoin price continues to fallto trade at $62,227, at the time of writing.
Are Investors Losing Interest in bitcoin ETFs?
Since the launch of the Spot bitcoin ETF, Black Rock has x.com/nategeraci/status/1766360686769189152?s=46″ rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>Recorded a net inflow of more than 13 billion dollars. The increase in demand for IBIT has positioned it among the Top bitcoin Spot ETF Providers and a key ETF player within the financial industry.
The recent drop in IBIT inflows has raised chances of declining interest in bitcoin Spot ETFs. For mostThe approval and launch of bitcoin spot ETFs was a major catalyst for bitcoin's rise to bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-surging-past-70000-for-the-first-time-in-history/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>new all-time highs in March 2024.
A continued influx of capital has been observed from the Soot bitcoin ETF. bitcoin/bitcoin-etfs-see-record-1-billion-inflows/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>take bitcoin price to new levels. On the contrary, a decrease in capital inflows has caused a significant bitcoin/spot-bitcoin-etfs-outflows/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>bitcoin price drop.
Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart, as a leading ETF expert has unraveled the mystery behind the unusual suspension of BlackRock's Spot bitcoin ETF inflows. Seyffart x.com/jseyff/status/1780243642851995735?s=46″ rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>explained It was common for the vast majority of ETFs to experience periods of zero flows. He backed up his claim by pointing out that of the 3,500 ETFs in the United States, 2,903 had also witnessed zero flows similar to IBIT.
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btc price at $62,200 | Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview.com
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