Benzinga - Based on the latest weekly report from CoinShares, crypto fund inflows at asset managers such as itself, 21Shares, Bitwise, Grayscale and ProShares added $293 million to a seven-week run of inflows thereby pushing it above the $1 billion mark for 2023.
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What Happened CoinShares' Head of Research James Butterfill wrote in his blog, “At $44.3 billion, total assets under management (AuM) is now the highest since the major crypto fund failures in May 2022.”
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Being the third highest yearly inflow of record, year-to-date inflows currently stand at $1.14 billion while total AuM surged 9.6% over the past week and 99% since the start of 2023.
Leading the pack was Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investment products ($240 million inflows) while $7 million was seen as outflows in the short Bitcoin products.
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) inflows stood at the highest ($49.1 million) since August 2022 levels with the last two weeks accounting for a major contribution.
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) had $12.4 million in inflows.
Indicating high expectations from this rally, Bitcoin ETP investors are seen participating more as they accounted for 19.5% of total Bitcoin trading volume last week. Blockchain equity ETFs also witnessed the largest inflows ($14 million) since July 2022 taking the year’s net flows to a positive $11 million.
Region-wise, Canada was leading with $105.7 million in flows while the U.S. ($81.1 million), Germany ($52.9 million) and Switzerland ($50.3 million) followed.
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Price Action: While Bitcoin prices corrected from the significant gains it posted last week, Solana prices were leading with a 33% gain. Ethereum saw a 10% increase in the past week while Bitcoin was up 5%.
However, based on the past 24-hour trading volume, Ethereum was in front with a 72% surge and Bitcoin followed with a 45% gain. Solana saw a drop of 10% in trading volume for the same period.
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If the Spot Bitcoin ETF is approved, will the crypto community witness another price rally, increase in fund inflows, and AuM expansions?
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