{"id":103,"date":"2025-12-24T12:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:36:53","slug":"institutional-retreat-sustained-outflows-hit-crypto-etfs-glassnode-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Retreat: Sustained Outflows Hit Crypto ETFs, Glassnode Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to recent analysis from Glassnode, the prolonged streak of capital leaving Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is a clear sign that institutional investors are pulling back from the digital asset market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Phase of Muted Participation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The analytics platform highlighted that the 30-day simple moving average of net flows into U.S. spot crypto ETFs turned negative in early November. Glassnode suggests this trend reflects a period of &#8220;muted participation&#8221; and partial disengagement by institutional allocators. This shift is contributing to a wider contraction of liquidity across the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically, ETF flows tend to trail behind spot market prices. Since the underlying tokens have been trending downward since mid-October, the current ETF selling pressure mirrors this broader bearish sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rising Selling Pressure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The market is currently facing a significant return of selling pressure. Data from Coinglass and the Kobeissi Letter reveals several concerning trends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Consecutive Losses:<\/strong> Aggregate Bitcoin ETF flows have remained in the red for four straight trading days as of late December.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Persistent Withdrawals:<\/strong> Capital has been withdrawn from crypto funds in six out of the last ten weeks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Weekly Impact:<\/strong> Last week alone, crypto-related funds recorded a staggering <strong>$952 million<\/strong> in net outflows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The BlackRock Exception<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the general market downturn, BlackRock\u2019s <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)<\/strong> continues to stand out as a dominant force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the broader sector struggles, IBIT has managed to attract minor inflows over the past week. Since its launch, the fund has accumulated <strong>$62.5 billion<\/strong> in total inflows, far outpacing its competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IBIT vs. Gold: A Surprising Comparison<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted a unique phenomenon regarding BlackRock\u2019s flagship fund on the &#8220;2025 Flow Leaderboard&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Performance vs. Popularity:<\/strong> IBIT is the only fund among the top leaders to post a negative return for the year, yet it still secured the sixth-place spot for total inflows.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Outpacing Gold:<\/strong> Remarkably, the Bitcoin fund saw higher net inflows than the <strong>SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)<\/strong>, even though gold prices surged by <strong>64%<\/strong> during the same period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent analysis from Glassnode, the prolonged streak of capital leaving Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eft"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}