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Crypto Funds Mark 3rd Consecutive Weeks Of Outflows With $435 Million In Withdrawals

Crypto investment products are now going through rough times, as shown by inflow and outflow data. The crypto market is known for its volatile market cycles of ups and downs. Investment products are now struggling, and confidence in the space seems shaken. Crypto funds have now seen outflows for three straight weeks, with investors pulling $435 million from digital asset funds last week, according to CoinShares data. The recent stretch of outflows highlights the souring investor sentiment around some digital assets after a bull run earlier this year.

The Third Consecutive Week Of Crypto Withdrawals

CoinShares’ recent weekly report on digital asset fund flows has revealed the current sentiment among institutional investors. According to the report, investment funds witnessed $435 million in outflows last week to mark the biggest outflow since March. This comes on top of the $206 million and $126 million pulled out in the previous two weeks. Unsurprisingly, the majority of outflows came from Bitcoin funds. Of the total $435 million outflows, $423 million came from Bitcoin funds. Notably, a bulk of Bitcoin’s outflows ($328 million) came from Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US.

A look into previous crypto fund flow data since the beginning of the year shows that the majority of the inflows recorded in January, February, and March can be attributed to the Spot Bitcoin ETFs. These ETFs recorded so much inflow of funds that investment products were able to record their best year on record in less than three months. 

However, inflows into these ETFs have declined in the past few weeks, and the largest digital asset is now failing to attract inflows amidst interest rate stagnation in the US market. Grayscale’s GBTC, in particular, continued its run of withdrawals, recording $440 million in outflows. At the same time, the other ETFs failed to attract inflows during the week in order to offset these withdrawals. BlackRock’s IBIT, for instance, failed to register inflows for three days straight last week, bringing its 71-day run of inflows to an end. 

Ethereum, the altcoin king, also witnessed $38.4 million in outflows last week to offset inflows into other altcoins. Inflow data shows investors pouring $6.9 million worth of inflows into multi-coin investment products. Solana, Litecoin, XRP, Cardano, and Polkadot witnessed $4.1 million, $3.1 million, $0.4 million, $0.4 million, and $0.5 million in inflows, respectively. Short Bitcoin products also witnessed $1.3 million in inflows, showcasing a glimpse into investors’ sentiment.

What’s Next?

Investor sentiment can shift quickly in the fast-moving crypto space and the coming weeks may provide more clarity on the direction of crypto fund flows. Six Spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are set to launch in Hong Kong today April 30. Their entry into the Asian market has been long anticipated and is expected to surpass the first-day inflow record set by their counterparts in the US.

Crypto total market cap from Tradingview.com

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This ‘Smart’ Whale Buys ETH Again – Could There Be An Incoming Price Surge?

In the last week, Ethereum (ETH) has attracted many investors’ attention as it gradually approaches the $1900 price region. Similar to many assets riding on the Bitcoin-fueled market rally, ETH, also known as Ether, is up by 5.85% in the last seven days, bringing its total price increase in the last four weeks to 15.17%.

Interestingly, a recent whale movement has now added more speculation around ETH, prompting suggestions that the largest altcoin may soon experience a price surge.

‘Smart’ Whale Purchases $15.94 Million Ether – What Could They Know?

In a Sunday post on X, blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain shared that an ETH whale with the wallet address “0xb15” had just purchased 8,698 ETH, valued at $15.94 million, from the Binance exchange, depositing 31.8 million USDT in the process.

This transaction has drawn much attention due to the past antecedents of this Ether investor. Popularly known as a “smart” whale, Lookonchain notes that “0xb15” has conducted 8 ETH transactions since February 12, recording a win rate of 87.5% and an aggregate profit of $13 million. 

In particular, this smart whale is known for buying low and selling high. Most recently, they deposited 24,495 ETH ($45 million) on Binance on November 2, shortly after purchasing 24,548 ETH, valued at $39.8 million, leading to a profit margin of approximately $5.47 million.

Following the purchase made by “0xb15” on Sunday, many traders are likely on high alert as it indicates the whale is anticipating a continuous rise in Ether’s price over the next few days. 

Looking at Ether’s daily chart, the altcoin is poised to break into the $1900 price zone if this buying pressure continues. However, investors should note the token’s Relative Strength Index (RSI) is now at 71.43, indicating it is now in the overbought zone and may experience a trend reversal. 

ETH Market Records Largest CEXs Weekly Outflow Since August

In other news, centralized exchanges (CEXs) just recorded an outflow of $210 million worth of Ether in the last seven days, according to data from IntotheBlock. This marks the altcoin’s largest weekly outflow off CEXs since August.

This data only reflects the strong bullish sentiment surrounding the ETH market, as a reduction in the token’s supply on exchanges reflects an increase in purchasing activity by investors. 

At the time of writing, Ether is trading at $1890.95, with a 2.61% gain in the last day. However, the token’s daily trading volume is down by 11.485 and valued at $6.02 billion. With a market cap of $227.4 billion, Ethereum remains the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world. 

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Institutional Outflows From Bitcoin Paints Bearish Picture For Crypto Market

Institutional investors have been quite neutral on both bitcoin and the crypto market at large for a while now. This has translated into a mix of inflows and outflows into various digital assets, alternating with each passing week even through the bear market. However, current net flow records show that these large investors are beginning to find their chosen position in the market and it is in the camp of the bears.

Bitcoin Sees Outflows

Bitcoin had been recording minor inflows in the last month-and-a-half which had been good for the digital asset despite not having much of an impact. This has now changed completely as the figures for last week show $13 million in outflows for the digital asset.

This bearish sentiment has been more prominent in the short bitcoin that is now on to its third consecutive week of outflows. The $7.1 million brought the total outflows from short bitcoin to $28 million. These outflows show that large investors are pulling out of the market more instead of taking one side over the other, an overall bearish development.

The digital asset outflows for the week came out to $15.6 million during this time. Furthermore, it was a bearish start to the month of November with $19 million in outflows already. So even though November has been a historically bullish month for the crypto market, investors do not seem to believe this will be the case this time around.

Crypto total market cap chart from TradingView.com

Crypto market suffers general bearishness | Source: Crypto Total Market cap on TradingView.com

Reason For Bearishness

While it has not had as much of a profound effect as expected, the result of the FOMC meeting has been largely influencing the behaviors of investors in the market. The fourth consecutive interest rate hike by 75 bps showed that the Fed was nowhere close to backing down on its hawkish stance against the high inflation rates.

As expected, such high interest rates will have an effect on markets such as crypto, greatly limiting their ability to grow, especially during a bear market. It is also no surprise that the United States led the outflows for the week since the Fed decision has the most impact in the region.

Nevertheless, there were still some inflows from across the point. Both Switzerland and Germany saw inflows of $6.8 million and $4 million respectively, most of which were focused on altcoins. Ethereum finally put an end to its outflow trends with inflows of $2.7 million. XRP followed this trend with inflows of $1.1 million, marking its third week of inflows.

Since that time, the crypto market has taken a turn so it is expected that there might be a change in institutional investor sentiment in the coming week. However, the general crypto market sentiment continues to skew largely into the negative, which means no significant inflows should be expected. 

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Ethereum Weekly Exchange Net Flow Points To Growing Accumulation Trend

Ethereum had been one of the largest winners of the rally that rocked the crypto market last week. The network had seen a boost when one of the developers of Ethereum announced that the upcoming Merge would likely happen sometime in September. It triggered a ripple effect that spread to the other digital assets in the space. But it seems Ethereum investors are nowhere close to being done, given the on-chain metrics from the last week.

Exchange Outflows Ramp Up

In the last week, large and small Ethereum investors alike have been ramping up in terms of accumulation. This shines through in the among of ETH that was recorded, leaving centralized exchanges versus the number that was going into them. The disparity between the two is stark and shows exactly how investors are feeling when it comes to investing in ETH.

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Numbers for the last week have shown that $3.3 billion total in ETH had flowed into centralized exchanges. However, the volume of ETH flowing out was about 100% higher. Data from Glassine shows that $6.5 billion flowed out, leading to a -$3.1 billion net flow.

This shows that investors are accumulating by moving their ETH out of exchanges and presumably to personal wallets for safekeeping. It also points to long-term hold sentiment among these investors. Additionally, it means that the sell pressure that has weighed down the market over the last couple of weeks has begun to ease. In its place is now a high buying pressure, leaving investors to accumulate as much ETH as possible.

ETH price falls to $1,500 | Source: ETHUSD on TradingView.com
Ethereum Merge Draws Closer

The majority of the gains recorded by Ethereum over the last week have been attributed to the updates made about the upcoming Merge. Ethereum had gained more than 40% on the back of that announcement alone, but the price has not been the only thing affected by the announcement.

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The ETH staked on the Ethereum network ahead of the Merge had been on the rise over the last couple of months but witnessed a jump after the announcement was made. At the time of this writing, the number of ETH staked on the network had reached a new all-time high of 13,152,149 ETH, and this number is expected to grow as the date draws closer.

This means that more than $20 billion in ETH is now being held in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract. Now, this is not the highest point it has been in terms of dollar value, but it is nonetheless significant given that the price of ETH is down more than 70% from its ATH. 

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Low Bitcoin Prices Trigger Inflows, But Investor Sentiment Remains Weak

Institutional investors’ reactions to the bitcoin price crash have been quite similar to that of retail investors. After weeks of outflows, the tides have begun to change, largely credited to the low prices that offer a chance to get into the digital asset before a recovery. The past week saw inflows for the digital asset, although other assets tell a different story.

Bitcoin Sentiment Recovers 

Bitcoin sentiment had declined far into the negative following the price crash of last week. With the digital asset reaching as low as $17,600, it triggered massive sell-offs across the space. However, not everyone in the space had seen the declining prices as a signal to sell. For some, it presented a unique opportunity to get some ‘cheap’ bitcoins which is what is seen across the institutional investors.

Bitcoin’s outflows had been ramping up over the previous week due to the low momentum in the market. This had turned for the better last week when the outflow trend had been canceled and money began to flow into the cryptocurrency. 

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The leading cryptocurrency had benefitted the most from this turn in investor sentiment as its inflows came out to $28 million for the week. Now, this is not exactly an impressive figure when it comes to inflows for bitcoin. However, it is important due to not only the market sentiment but the fact outflows had characterized the market for the previous week. It brings the month-to-date inflows for bitcoin to a total of $46 million. 

Nevertheless, the short bitcoin had gone the other day. This asset saw record outflows for the past week. With a total of $5.8 million, short bitcoin embodied the negative sentiment felt throughout the market recently, coming after reaching a new all-time high of $64 million just at the beginning of the week.

BTC begins another decline trend | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com
Outflows Rock The Rest

It would seem that bitcoin would be one of the solitary beneficiaries of the inflow trend for the past week. For the rest of the market, the sell-off trend had taken a stronghold and digital asset investment had seen inflows of $39 million. This brings the total assets under management to $36 billion. It is now sitting at its lowest point in more than a year, accounting for a 59% decline in the last six months alone. However, net flows remain positive at $403 million on a year-to-date basis.

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Ethereum is yet to be free from its bearish hold as outflows remain the order of the date. For the last week alone, Ethereum outflows had reached $70 million. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has now seen 11 straight weeks of outflows with no reprieve in sight. Its year-to-date outflows now sit at a massive $459 million. 

Multi-asset investment products and Solana would, however, go the way of bitcoin for last week. Both these asset classes maintain inflow trends stubbornly. Inflows for multi-asset investment products came out to $9 million while Solana saw inflows of $0.7 million, presumably from investors who are moving out of competitor, Ethereum, due to fears that the Merge would not be taking place according to schedule. 

The crypto market has lost more than $100 billion since last week. It is currently sitting at $892.6 billion at the time of this writing.

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Exchange Inflows Ramp Up As Crypto Investors Clamor To Exit Market

With the crypto market’s decline, there have been a number of things that have changed drastically in the space. Mostly, investors have been rushing to get out of the market before the crash takes more of their funds. What this has led to has been a significant increase in the number of cryptocurrencies that are flowing to exchanges. Most notably have been Bitcoin and Ethereum, whose daily exchange inflows have touched billions of dollars.

Billions In Crypto To Exchanges

The data for the last 24 hours shows that the amount of funds that are being transferred into centralized exchanges is up over the last week. Instead of the sub-$1 billion figures that have usually been recorded, the volume has ramped up significantly.

Glassnode reports that more than $3 billion in Bitcoin had moved into exchanges over the last 24 hours. In total, there was $3.2 billion worth of BTC recorded to have flowed into exchanges, with $3.3 billion flowing out, leading to a negative net flow of -$103.5 million. 

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The same was the case with Ethereum which had also seen $2.1 billion flowing in while $1.5 billion had flowed out. The positive net flow of $532.4 million for Ethereum is in line with the outflow trend that had been recorded for the digital asset over the last couple of months.

Interestingly, although high, the numbers for the last 24 hours are almost 50% below what was recorded on Sunday. This is understandable given that the majority of the market crash had happened in the late hours of Sunday, thus causing investors to want to move their funds.

Total market cap below $1 trillion | Source: Crypto Total Market Cap on TradingView.com

To put this in perspective, Sunday had seen $6.5 billion worth of bitcoin flow into centralized exchanges, while Ethereum’s numbers had clocked as high as $3.7 billion in the same time period.

🚨 Weekly On-Chain Exchange Flow 🚨#Bitcoin $BTC➡ $6.5B in⬅ $6.5B out📉 Net flow: -$9.9M#Ethereum $ETH➡ $3.7B in⬅ $3.5B out📈 Net flow: +$181.6M#Tether (ERC20) $USDT➡ $3.5B in⬅ $3.2B out📈 Net flow: +$339.4Mhttps://t.co/dk2HbGwhVw

— glassnode alerts (@glassnodealerts) June 13, 2022

Tether Outflows Says No Accumulation

Tether is the largest of the stablecoins and possesses the largest range of crypto trading pairs that are present in the market. Its inflow and outflow trend has often helped to know if crypto investors were looking to purchase coins or were in fact dumping their coins.

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The Tether inflows and outflows for the last two days show that instead of trying to accumulate, investors are heading for the safety provided by these stablecoins. On Sunday, USDT inflows were slightly above outflows, which does not spell good news for the crypto market. This trend has now continued as the last 24 hours have now seen inflows matching outflows.

What this indicates is that investors are not buying up bitcoin or Ethereum. Rather, they are converting their cryptocurrencies into stablecoins to escape the extreme volatility of the current market. 

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