U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted $1.42 billion in weekly net inflows last week, marking their highest weekly total since early October.
Inflows were led by BlackRock’s IBIT, which recorded $1.03 billion in net inflows for the week ended Jan. 16, according to SoSoValue data. The weekly total was the highest since the week ended Oct. 10.
“The inflows signal renewed institutional demand and conviction in BTC as a long-term asset class, even amid short-term volatility,” said Nick Ruck, director of LVRG Research.
Last week’s inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs came as the world’s largest cryptocurrency rose to around $97,000 toward the end of the week, up from roughly $90,500 at the start of the period.
Bitcoin has since pulled back on Sunday after headlines emerged about U.S.-EU tensions over Greenland. It fell 2.6% in the past 24 hours to $92,618 as of 11:30 p.m. ET Sunday, down from around $95,400 earlier in the day, according to The Block’s price page.
Ruck said that last week’s inflows point to continued accumulation in the new year and possible supply tightening that could support a recovery, even as bitcoin dipped below $92,500 at one stage today amid macro risk-off sentiment and liquidations.
“Despite strong ETF inflows, Bitcoin’s pullback to about $92K underscores a derivatives-driven market, where over-leveraged long positioning built on shallow liquidity unraveled on reversal, triggering forced liquidations,” Vincent Liu, CIO of Kronos Research, told The Block.
In the past 24 hours, the crypto market saw roughly $824 million in total liquidations, including about $763.7 million in long positions, according to Coinglass data aggregated from publicly available sources.
“While structural support remains intact, price action continues to be dominated by leverage and liquidity dynamics, leaving BTC vulnerable to abrupt downside moves in the near term,” said Liu.
Meanwhile, spot Ethereum ETFs posted $479 million in inflows last week, marking their highest weekly inflows since the week ended Oct. 10.
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