CoinShares’ weekly Digital Asset Fund Flows report has revealed final week noticed the biggest Bitcoin within the report’s historical past as Elon
CoinShares’ weekly Digital Asset Fund Flows report has revealed final week noticed the biggest Bitcoin within the report’s historical past as Elon Musk’s Twitter account once more wreaked havoc within the crypto markets.
The Could 17 report notes $98 million exited Bitcoin funding merchandise final week, equating to 0.2% of complete property underneath administration, or AUM. “Whereas small, this marks the biggest outflow we’ve recorded,” CoinShares famous.
Amid the tumultuous market situations for Bitcoin, institutional traders seem to have ramped up their accumulation of Ether and different different cryptocurrencies, with the report figuring out inflows to crypto asset funding merchandise of $48 million when excluding Bitcoin.
Ethereum represented greater than half of flows to altcoin funding merchandise with $27 million. Cardano and Polkadot additionally noticed elevated inflows of $6 million and $3.Three million respectively.
CoinShares additionally notes that Could is shaping as much as be the primary month wherein funding quantity for institutional Ether merchandise has outpaced that of Bitcoin merchandise. The report acknowledged:
“The information impl[ies] that traders have been diversifying out of Bitcoin and into altcoin funding merchandise.”
Digital asset funding merchandise noticed a internet outflow of $50 million, marking the primary week to submit a internet outflow since October 2020.
The institutional pivot in direction of Ether and altcoins displays current traits within the broader crypto asset ecosystem, with Bitcoin market dominance sinking to a three-year low of roughly 40% as of Could 17.