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US spot Bitcoin ETFs post best week since April with $1B inflows
The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted roughly $1 billion in net inflows this week, marking their strongest performance since April and third-best week since October, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. The rebound signals renewed investor appetite following months of inconsistent flows and comes amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding digital asset regulation and cryptocurrency self-custody security.
Balchunas has pointed to a theory popularized by investor Jordi Visser describing Bitcoin's "silent IPO" — a shift in ownership from early investors to institutional buyers via ETFs and similar vehicles. This redistribution had previously coincided with weakening ETF inflows, making this week's recovery particularly significant.
The timing of the inflow surge followed a major security breach at Coldcard, a hardware wallet maker owned by Coinkite, in which roughly $116 million in Bitcoin was stolen due to flawed key generation in vulnerable firmware versions. Balchunas suggested the incident could strengthen the appeal of spot Bitcoin ETFs among investors uncomfortable with managing self-custody responsibilities, though he cautioned that correlation does not establish causation. The analyst noted that some investors may migrate from cold storage solutions to ETFs as a result, though no definitive evidence supports this link.
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