{"id":538,"date":"2026-08-18T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=538"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:35:23","slug":"bitcoin-etfs-post-largest-weekly-outflow-in-six-weeks-as-token-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin ETFs Post Largest Weekly Outflow in Six Weeks as Token Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US-listed spot <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> ETFs shed a net <strong>$389.7 million<\/strong> in the week of Aug. 10, marking their largest weekly outflow since late June, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The reversal followed a much stronger run just seven days earlier, when the same 13 funds pulled in <strong>$853.5 million<\/strong> \u2014 their best week since April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The swing highlights how sensitive institutional flows remain to short-term price action. That early-August inflow surge had coincided with a rare hack targeting a well-known brand of cold-storage hardware wallets, which briefly renewed interest in gaining exposure through regulated, custodied vehicles rather than self-custody. Once that effect faded, flows swung back into the red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BlackRock<\/strong>&#8216;s IBIT remains the dominant fund in the category by a wide margin, though it has posted mixed results in recent weeks: over the past five trading days the fund took in <strong>$154.5 million<\/strong>, but it has lost <strong>$1.83 billion<\/strong> over the past month and nearly <strong>$3.91 billion<\/strong> over three months, <em>according to the TFTC Bitcoin ETF Flow Tracker<\/em>. On a one-year view, IBIT is still positive by roughly $5.14 billion, with cumulative net flows since inception at $60.35 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BTC<\/strong> itself has largely stalled through the volatility, holding in a range roughly between $62,000 and $65,600 for most of the month and failing to close decisively above resistance near $65,000. Year-to-date, the token remains down more than 25%, a stretch some analysts attribute to a broader risk-off mood tied to shifting rate expectations and thinner summer liquidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the 666 trading sessions since the funds launched in January 2024, net flows have now turned negative on 40% of days \u2014 up from 31% in the first year and running at 54% so far in 2026, underscoring how much choppier institutional demand has become this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total net assets across the complex stand at roughly <strong>$76.6 billion<\/strong>, with cumulative net inflows since launch of $51.8 billion. The next major catalyst may be the Federal Reserve&#8217;s July meeting minutes, due this week, alongside a White House meeting between crypto industry executives and administration officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a net $389.7 million in the week of Aug. 10, marking their largest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","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\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}