Bitcoin News: Bitcoin ETFs Just Turned Positive Across Every Timeframe
IBIT has been leading all year, not just last week. The fund’s net assets have now totalled $63.14 billion, and its top 1% ETF ranking covers every fund on the U.S. market—not just crypto products. That puts BlackRock's Bitcoin fund among the biggest inflow magnets across the entire ETF industry.
The renewed buying has now pushed IBIT's total Bitcoin holdings to 806,700 BTC—about 3.8% of Bitcoin's entire 21 million supply, and more Bitcoin than any country on the planet holds. One ETF, one asset manager, now controls a supply share that nobody would have predicted when IBIT launched in January 2024.
Institutions Are Buying Bitcoin ETFs While the Fear Index Drops Again
If you've been feeling cautious about Bitcoin this week, you're not alone. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is now at 39, down by seven points in a single day and firmly back in the fear zone. Retail traders watched the Bitcoin price rally into the resistance near $79,000 on Wednesday and stall on Thursday, and they're getting more cautious.
As retail traders hold back to see what Bitcoin does, institutions are stacking up more BTC. Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $335 million on April 22—the biggest daily inflow of April—and kept absorbing capital despite the Thursday pullback that spooked retail traders.
When ETF inflows keep grinding higher even as sentiment drops, it usually means the biggest buyers have already decided Bitcoin is cheap at this price. The same thing happened in March, when the Fear & Greed Index was near single digits and ETFs still absorbed $1.32 billion for the month. And now, six weeks later, Bitcoin is trading above $78,000, and could break $80K soon.
Can Bitcoin ETFs Break Their All-Time Inflow Record This Month?
The all-time Bitcoin inflow record is within striking distance. Bitcoin ETFs sit roughly $4 billion shy of their lifetime peak and have been pulling in roughly $110 million per trading day this April. Another week of that pace gets the total close enough that a single strong session—the kind we've already seen twice this month—would push the record over the line before May.
Strong ETF inflows don't automatically translate into a Bitcoin price rally, but they do tighten the available supply of Bitcoin in circulation. With so much of the circulating supply now locked inside ETFs and corporate treasuries like Strategy, the market has less free float to absorb any upside demand. When buyers return, that kind of supply tightness tends to produce sharp moves.
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