Bitcoin ETFs Just Had Their Biggest Day Since May

Bitcoin ETFs Just Had Their Biggest Day Since May—BlackRock Took 83% of It

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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606.29 million on Thursday, their biggest single-day haul since May 1 That beats Wednesday’s $517.19 million and extends the inflow streak to four sessions

The four-day run—$297.56 million Monday, $189.30 million Tuesday, then Wednesday and Thursday—comes to roughly $1.61 billion in all. August now stands at $2.07 billion, the best month of 2026, beating April’s $$1.97 billion, with seven trading sessions left to close the gap.

One fund took almost all of it

Bitcoin ETFs are financial instruments that give investors exposure to an asset without directly owning it. In the case of Bitcoin ETFs, the issuer of the fund holds the coin, and the investor owns a 1:1 equivalent, gaining exposure to the price of Bitcoin in real time.

These funds have been extremely popular among investors since they launched in early 2024, with the biggest fund issuer of them all—the $15 trillion asset manager BlackRock—as the primary beneficiary.

Adding to its already monster total, BlackRock’s IBIT collected $502.99 million on Thursday, roughly 83 cents of every dollar that entered the category. Fidelity’s FBTC took $64.74 million, Bitwise’s BITB $26.4 million and Ark and 21Shares’ ARKB $12.2 million. VanEck’s HODL went the other way, shedding $3.59 million.

Compare that to Wednesday, when IBIT’s share was 55% and eight of 12 funds finished positive with none in the red. A day later the total was bigger and the distribution was narrower.

Across the four sessions, IBIT alone accounted for about $1.09 billion of the $1.61 billion. That is closer to the pattern from earlier this month, when the funds drew $853.5 million over five days and roughly 80% arrived through IBIT.

The altcoin funds finally turned up

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The smaller products moved hardest in percentage terms. XRP funds took $13 million against $2.35 million on Wednesday. Solana funds took $15 million against $2.10 million. Every listed asset drew inflows, including Hyperliquid’s product, which had been the lone outflow a day earlier.

On Wednesday, Bitcoin funds collected one dollar for every $220 that reached XRP funds. On Thursday that gap closed to about 47 to one.

So the money broadened across assets and narrowed within Bitcoin at the same time. That squeeze is not abstract, and it claimed a fund this month.

Hashdex shut its DEFI Bitcoin ETF, the first US spot Bitcoin fund ever liquidated, with a final trading day of August 17. It charged the same 0.25% as IBIT but held $14.7 million against IBIT’s $47 billion, throwing off roughly $26,000 a year in fees—not enough to run a fund.

Source: finance.yahoo.com