🚀 Bitcoin ETFs Smash Records: $1B Daily Inflows Fuel $200K Price Target for 2025

Wall Street's latest love affair with crypto just hit hyperdrive. Bitcoin ETFs are vacuuming up capital like a hedge fund at an all-you-can-eat fees buffet—racking up back-to-back $1 billion inflow days.

### The $200K Question

Analysts now whisper what was unthinkable 18 months ago: Bitcoin could 10x from its 2023 lows. The math? Institutional demand meets halving scarcity, minus the usual bagholders (this time it's your pension fund).

### Trustless, But Not Fee-less

BlackRock and friends finally cracked crypto's adoption puzzle—by wrapping it in the same expensive wrapper they put on everything else. Genius or ironic? Yes.

Prediction season's wildest call now sits at $200K before New Year's Eve 2025. Either the greatest trade of the decade...or another reminder that 'institutional-grade' often means 'you'll pay for the privilege.'

On Thursday, the 11 U.S. listed spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively pulled in $1.17 billion in net inflows, followed by another $1.03 billion on Friday, according to data from Farside Investors. The two-day total of $2.2 billion marks the largest consecutive inflow streak since the spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024.

The ETF Feeding Frenzy

Fueling the frenzy? Bitcoin’s price soared past previous records, hitting $112,000 on Wednesday and topping out at $118,780 by Friday, according to Brave New Coin data. The parabolic move helped drive a total of $2.72 billion into bitcoin ETFs over just five trading days.

“The Bitcoin network mined around 450 BTC on Thursday. The ETFs bought around 10,000,” said Matt Hougan, CIO at Bitwise Invest. “It’s a classic supply-and-demand mismatch.”

Hougan is doubling down on his Bitwise Bitcoin price prediction of $200,000 in 2025. With soaring demand from the ETFs, that target could end up being conservative.

The Bitwise Bitcoin price prediction of $200,000 in 2025 was first forecasted late last year, source: BNC

On Wednesday alone, ETF purchases outpaced newly mined Bitcoin by a staggering 22-to-1 margin, according to Bitcoin infrastructure firm Jan3. CEO Samson Mow warned, “This demand is not sustainable at these price levels.”

On July 9th, ETF demand for Bitcoin was 22x greater than the daily mined supply, source: X

Whether sustainable or not, the capital inflows propelled BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) into the record books. The fund crossed $80 billion in assets under management on Thursday, making it the fastest ETF in history to reach that milestone, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas.

“It only took 374 days,” Balchunas posted. “That’s faster than any ETF, ever.”

$IBIT crossed $80b, the fastest ETF to get there in just 374 days, Source: X

BlackRock’s IBIT has now become more lucrative for the asset manager than even its crown jewel, the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), generating higher annual revenues amid the crypto rush.

Total assets across all U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs surpassed $140 billion for the first time. While price appreciation helped turbocharge that figure, the raw inflows are a clear signal: TradFi wants Bitcoin, and they want it now.

The latest rally and ETF activity suggest that Bitcoin is no longer just a fringe asset for risk-tolerant crypto natives. With Wall Street now pouring billions in via regulated vehicles, Bitcoin has officially gone mainstream, on its own terms.

With Bitcoin now in price discovery, if you don’t already own Bitcoin, now is the time to buy Bitcoin or risk missing out on what could be a parabolic rally in 2025. If Bitcoin reaches $200,000 this year, there is significant upside ahead for Bitcoin and crypto assets.