
April 30th, 2025
The IBIT ETF from BlackRock is now the fifth-largest of all US ETFs by inflows, despite heavy outflows from Grayscale’s product.
The motion to liquidate Genesis assets at Grayscale Investment has been supported by Gemini that is seeking to repay the affected Earn Program customers.
Fidelity’s Wise Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) and BlackRock’s IBIT have posted $6 billion in cumulative inflows in the past three weeks.
The US government is finally resolving the FTX hack as it files charge against three people involve in the phone swap hack.
While Grayscale’s GBTC saw outflows running in millions on Monday, companies like BlackRock and Fidelity received a combined net inflow of $406 million on the same day.
Fidelity’s spot Bitcoin ETF recorded more inflows than GBTC outflows on Monday. All eyes are currently on the FOMC meeting ahead this week as investors’ keenly watch Fed’s take on rate cuts.
According to TD Cowen, several factors, including Gensler’s “go-slow” approach, make spot ETH ETF approval unlikely this year.
Despite the positive developments, FTX has acknowledged that it does not anticipate fully repaying all customers.
The JPMorgan analysts highlighted BlackRock and Fidelity Investment’s spot Bitcoin ETFs as emerging competitors to GBTC.
Q1 has been predicted to be challenging for Bitcoin according to Matrixport, with the price expected to dip to around $36,000 and then recover.
Despite the recent massive outflows, the past week witnessed a notable surge in inflows, with a substantial $1.25 billion pouring into crypto funds. Grayscale’s GBTC led the chart.
Nine new spot Bitcoin ETFs have accumulated over 100,000 BTC, valued at $4 billion AUM. BlackRock’s IBIT leads with 40,213 BTC.
The approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States has given investors around the world more diversity to tap into the Bitcoin market, thus heightening underlying fee wars.
The approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs was anticipated to be a positive catalyst for Bitcoin’s price. However, the reality has been starkly different, with Bitcoin experiencing a decline.
Bitcoin has fallen below $40k despite the SEC’s approval of spot ETFs, with the Grayscale ETF losing more than $2 billion since then.