Bitcoin ETFs Surge: $2.3B Floods In Last Week, Signaling Massive Demand Impulse
Wall Street's newest darling just flexed serious muscle—Bitcoin ETFs vacuumed up $2.3 billion in a single week, proving institutional appetite isn't just hype.
The inflow avalanche
Money poured into spot Bitcoin ETFs at a staggering pace, marking one of the strongest weekly performances since their launch. Traders and funds piled in, bypassing traditional crypto exchanges and opting for the regulated wrapper instead.
What's driving the frenzy?
Clear demand impulse—no other way to describe it. Investors aren't dipping toes; they're diving headfirst into digital gold through familiar brokerage accounts. Even the usual Wall Street skeptics can't ignore these numbers.
Where traditional finance meets digital disruption
ETFs cut through crypto's complexity, offering exposure without the private keys, wallets, or tech headaches. Suddenly, Bitcoin's not just for crypto nerds—it's for every portfolio manager chasing alpha (and trying to keep up with the Joneses).
Let's be real—when traditional finance finally embraces an asset class, you know the early adopters are already counting their gains and the latecomers are... well, still arguing about valuation models from the last century.
Pre-Fed surge
The surge aligned with growing expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut rates at its next meeting set this week, with users of prediction market Myriad, launched by Decrypt’s parent company DASTAN, placing an 88% chance on a 25bps rate cut.
During the same period, Bitcoin's price recovered above $115,000, reinforcing investor optimism. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is changing hands at around $114,600, per CoinGecko data.
“Structural demand is the real story here,” Farbod Sadeghian, founder of Dubai-headquartered international VIRTUAL asset chamber TheBlock., told Decrypt.
While rate cut expectations could provide “a friendlier backdrop for risk assets,” such a setting is temporary, Sadeghian said.
“The bigger factor is that investors, especially at the institutional level, now see Bitcoin as an allocation worth holding over the long term,” he said, adding that “the ETF wrapper makes it easier and safer to access, but the underlying appetite is clearly about exposure to the asset itself.”
On the broader end, Sadeghian notes that Bitcoin ETF inflows, while “never perfectly smooth,” could expect to “stabilize and scale further” over macro-driven momentum as institutional investors steadily “integrate Bitcoin ETFs into standard portfolios.”
