{"id":339,"date":"2026-05-01T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=339"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:16:15","slug":"spot-bitcoin-etfs-pull-in-2-44b-in-april-strongest-month-since-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Spot Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $2.44B in April, Strongest Month Since October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately <strong>$2.44 billion<\/strong> in net inflows during April 2026, marking the category&#8217;s strongest month since October 2025 and nearly doubling March&#8217;s <strong>$1.32 billion<\/strong>, <em>according to data compiled by SoSoValue<\/em>. The April total pushed cumulative lifetime inflows across all U.S. spot <strong>BTC<\/strong> ETF products past <strong>$58.5 billion<\/strong> since their January 2024 launch, with total assets under management reaching roughly <strong>$102 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BlackRock<\/strong>&#8216;s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) captured the bulk of the month&#8217;s flows, adding between <strong>$2.1 billion<\/strong> and <strong>$3 billion<\/strong> and bringing the fund&#8217;s holdings to roughly <strong>812,000 BTC<\/strong>, valued near <strong>$62 billion<\/strong>. <strong>Fidelity<\/strong>&#8216;s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) was the second-largest contributor, with a nine-day inflow streak totaling about <strong>$2.12 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas noted <em>in a recent post<\/em> that net flows have turned positive across every rolling timeframe he tracks for the first time in months. <strong>Morgan Stanley<\/strong>&#8216;s newly launched MSBT, which began trading on April 8, recorded <strong>$163 million<\/strong> in inflows with no outflow days \u2014 a sign of fresh demand rather than rotation between issuers. Cumulative <strong>GBTC<\/strong> outflows have stabilized near <strong>$26.28 billion<\/strong>, suggesting most of the migration out of Grayscale&#8217;s higher-fee product is now complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Momentum cooled in the final week of the month. ETFs posted three consecutive sessions of outflows ending April 29, with daily net redemptions of <strong>$137.77 million<\/strong> that day, led by IBIT (-<strong>$54.73M<\/strong>) and FBTC (-<strong>$36.13M<\/strong>). Spot Ethereum ETFs lost <strong>$87.73 million<\/strong> the same session. The pullback coincided with <strong>BTC<\/strong> retreating toward <strong>$76,200<\/strong> as the Federal Reserve held rates and removed dovish language from its statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with the late-month dip, April produced a clear demand signal. <strong>BTC<\/strong> rallied between <strong>12%<\/strong> and <strong>16%<\/strong> during the month on heavy ETF buying that, on multiple sessions, absorbed more supply than daily mining output. April reset year-to-date flows into positive territory after first-quarter outflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For investors, the takeaway is two-sided. Sustained inflows into May will depend on whether <strong>BTC<\/strong> holds the <strong>$76,000\u2013$77,000<\/strong> range that prediction markets currently price at roughly a <strong>64%<\/strong> probability, and on whether the Fed shifts its tone at the next FOMC meeting. A break below this band could quickly invert the flow picture, as the late-April outflow cluster has shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $2.44 billion in net inflows during April 2026, marking the category&#8217;s strongest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","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\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}