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14 Nov 2024

All time high in notional turnover for iShares bitcoin ETF $IBIT yesterday at $5.4B

Source: Bloomberg

13 Nov 2024

JUST IN: 🚨BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF has hit $40 billion in assets in a record time 🚀 The most successful ETF launch ever

Source: Bloomberg, Bitcoin Magazine

8 Nov 2024

FLOWMAGEDDON: A Trump-inspired gusher of cash is flowing into risk-on ETFs, +$22b in one day is absurd, that is normally a good WEEK.

YTD net flows now +$856b, (55b away from annual record) and the rolling 1-year has passed $1T Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg

7 Nov 2024

$IBIT iShares Bitcoin ETF just had its biggest volume day ever with $4.1b traded..

For context that's more volume than stocks like Berkshire, Netflix or Visa saw today. It was also up 10%, its second best day since launching. Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg

31 Oct 2024

JUST IN: US Bitcoin ETFs now hold over 1 million BTC

Source: Bitcoin magazine on X

30 Oct 2024

Eric Balchunas on X:

"$IBIT iShares Bitcoin ETF traded $3.3b today, biggest number in 6 months, which is a bit odd because $BTC was up 4% (typically ETF volume spikes in a downturn/crisis). Occasionally though volume can spike if there a FOMO-ing frenzy (a la $ARKK in 2020)". Given the surge in price past few days, his guess is this is latter, which means that inflows could be even bigger this week. Source: Eric Balchunas on X, Bloomberg

30 Oct 2024

ETF launches have been going vertical over past few years…

700+ new ETFs have been launched just over the trailing 12 months. Source: Nate Geraci @NateGeraci via Todd Sohn

18 Oct 2024

Bitcoin ETFs have crossed $20b in total net flows (the most important number, most difficult metric to grow in ETF world) for first time after huge week of $1.5b.

For context, it took gold ETFs about 5 years to reach same number. Total assets now $65b, also a high water mark. Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg

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