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BlackRock attributes Bitcoin pullback to deleveraging and capital flows
The asset manager characterizes a steep Bitcoin decline as a temporary positioning correction rather than a fundamental shift in the cryptocurrency's investment case.
BlackRock has attributed Bitcoin's sharp recent decline to excess leverage and shifting investment flows rather than any structural deterioration in the asset's long-term prospects.
Bitcoin surged above $120,000 in October 2025 before retracing more than half its value to below $60,000 by June 2026. According to BlackRock, the sell-off was driven by cascading liquidations in highly leveraged perpetual futures contracts—which had accumulated over $90 billion in open interest—combined with a macro risk-off event triggered by China tariff headlines. The asset manager noted that futures open interest fell a record $20 billion in a single day during the downturn.
Capital flows also played a role, with Bitcoin spot ETFs drawing $60 billion in inflows from January 2024 through October 2025, before experiencing over $5 billion in outflows as investors rotated into AI-themed products.
BlackRock maintains that Bitcoin's fundamental appeal as a portfolio diversifier and emerging monetary alternative remains intact. The firm notes that Bitcoin has exhibited low long-term correlation to traditional assets with positively skewed returns, and argues that a modest 1-2% allocation has historically improved risk-adjusted performance in a balanced 60/40 portfolio according to trailing 10-year analysis. The asset manager also observed that Bitcoin's volatility has trended lower over the past decade as market infrastructure matured, despite recent temporary spikes from leverage in perpetual futures.
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