The Spot Bitcoin ETFs are having a record week, with these funds setting new all-time highs in buying and selling quantity. Specifically, on February 28, these BTC ETFs noticed a 100% bounce in buying and selling quantity from the file of $2.4 billion traded on February 26.
The ‘Nine’ Record $6 Billion In Trading Volume
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas revealed in an X (previously Twitter) post that the newly listed Spot Bitcoin ETFs (excluding Grayscale’s GBTC) doubled their quantity file set on February 26, with nearly $6 billion traded on February 28. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) and Fidelity’s Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) led the best way with $3.3 billion and $1.4 billion, respectively.
Balchunas added that the overall variety of trades additionally doubled, with IBIT and FBTC recording over half 1,000,000 particular person trades between them. Meanwhile, together with GBTC within the combine paints a extra spectacular image because the ten Spot Bitcoin ETFs “destroyed” their earlier file of $4.66 billion (from launch day), with $7.69 billion recorded on February 28.
The buzz around BTC additionally prolonged to the BTC futures ETFs just like the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy (BITO), which recorded over $2 billion in buying and selling quantity on the day. Balchunas famous that including the Bitcoin futures ETFs means all of them mixed to file over $10 billion being traded on the day.
Bitcoin ETF Inflows Record Also Broken
Meanwhile, the buying and selling quantity wasn’t the one file that was destroyed on February 28. Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart revealed a brand new file for daily inflows was set. The ten Spot Bitcoin ETFs are mentioned to have taken in $673 million, beating the launch day file of $655 million. Interestingly, IBIT recorded $612 million alone, contributing enormously to this new file.
The world’s largest asset supervisor, BlackRock, is claimed to now have over $9 billion in belongings underneath administration (AuM) for his or her BTC ETF. BlackRock’s IBIT, Grayscale’s GBTC, Fidelity’s FBTC, and Ark Invest’s ARKB are the 4 Spot Bitcoin ETFs with over $2 billion in AuM.
The demand for these Bitcoin ETFs is predicted to maintain rising. Balchunas acknowledged in an X post that wirehouse platforms are “seriously looking” at including these investment funds to their choices quickly. The analyst famous that stress was mounting on these platforms and that with grassroots demand on the excessive facet, they’d collapse sooner relatively than later.
Thanks partly to the demand for these funds, BTC is flying high for the time being. At the time of writing, BTC is buying and selling at round $62,900, up over 10% within the final 24 hours, based on data from CoinMarketCap.
BTC value continues to rise | Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview.com
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