Without IBIT, U.S. bitcoin ETFs lost $11.73 million on the day they reported a $5.06 million inflow
U.S. bitcoin ETFs took in $5.06 million on Thursday while ether ETFs lost $60.22 million, according to Bitcoin News. BlackRock's IBIT alone added $16.79 million, and four sessions of flipping flows leave bitcoin funds about $146 million down.
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Grayscale is putting three crypto funds on Republic's platform from $2,500, open in the US only to verified accredited investors. That ticket is 0.25% of the $1 million net worth that is one route to qualifying.
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US bitcoin and ether ETFs shed about $965 million in two sessions as ether funds logged an eighth straight day of redemptions. Most of Thursday's selling sat in Fidelity's FBTC and BlackRock's ETHA, consistent with a few large holders trimming positions.
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- Evidence72
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+22
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CoinShares says Treasury yields at two-decade highs, 5.3% on the 10-year and 5.7% on the 30-year, could matter more for bitcoin than Fed rate decisions. The firm concedes its fund-flow data has not yet shown that debt fear is what drew money into bitcoin products.
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Glassnode's Rafael Schultze-Kraft counts 31.2% of circulating Bitcoin behind exposed public keys, up 222,000 BTC since May while supply grew 64,000 BTC. Exchanges supplied most of that rise, and a venue can cut its share by moving reserves to fresh addresses.
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Outside cash accounts for about a fifth of Grayscale's $1 billion Zcash fund
Grayscale's Zcash fund passed $1 billion in assets within a month of listing, though only about $200 million of that is cash from outside investors. Most of the rest is coins carried over from its 2017 trust and a ZEC price that roughly doubled after trading began.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a spot Zcash ETF with a 0.25% sponsor fee, a tenth of the 2.50% Grayscale charges on its $751 million fund. Grayscale's recent withdrawals came before the filing and tracked a 21% fall in ZEC, so the fee gap has not yet been tested.
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Grayscale's XRP ETF opens in-kind swaps to Virtu and Macquarie
Grayscale's XRP ETF now lets Virtu and Macquarie swap XRP directly for fund shares, according to an Oct. 5 SEC filing reported by Bitcoin.com News. Grayscale itself warns that limited dealer participation can widen spreads, so for now the fund's tracking of XRP rests on those two firms.
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- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
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BlackRock's ETHA lost $201.89 million on Tuesday, the entire ether ETF outflow in a sixth straight losing session, as its IBIT drew $122 million. So far the gap between bitcoin and ether money sits inside one issuer's two funds, and no other ether ETF had net flows.
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Fifteen trading days separate bitcoin's 225% gain from an 11% loss, Grayscale finds
Grayscale says removing bitcoin's 15 best days turns its 225% three-year gain into an 11% loss, while the Nasdaq-100's 109% return falls only to 21%. That makes waiting in cash far costlier in bitcoin, though the test as reported only prices missed good days.
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Fifteen trading days hold more than all of bitcoin's 225% three-year gain, Grayscale finds
Grayscale's Oct. 5 research shows bitcoin's 225% three-year return turns into an 11% loss once its 15 best trading days are removed. The study drops only the rallies, so it puts a hard price on sitting out but leaves untested the timer who also skips the worst sessions.
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- Evidence55
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Privacy coins Zcash and Monero lead a flat $3 trillion crypto market
Zcash rose 3% and Monero 2.14% over 24 hours to lead the largest coins, while Bitcoin gained 0.59%. The $30.25 million that left Grayscale's Zcash ETF on Sept. 30 equals about 0.13% of Zcash's $23.18 billion market value.
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Grayscale research head Zach Pandl says AI-linked tokens rose 54% in September against 24% for crypto overall, with NEAR up 183%. Broken out token by token, the figures show one strong name in a small sector more than a market pricing blockchains as infrastructure for agents.
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- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
BlackRock's IBIT took in $450 million last week while all US spot bitcoin ETFs together netted $241 million, about 90% less than the week before. That keeps a three-week inflow streak alive on one fund's buyers heading into October.
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- Evidence72
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
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- Confidence66
Grayscale's ZCSH, the first US spot Zcash ETF, lost $93.56 million to outflows in one week, leaving $212.56 million of net inflows since its August launch. Its assets fell further, to about $751 million from a September peak as high as $979 million, with ZEC's price accounting for much of the drop.
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Grayscale's Zcash fund loses a tenth of its net inflows in a single day
Grayscale's Zcash ETF recorded a $30.25 million net outflow on Sept. 30, leaving cumulative net inflows near $268 million. With ZEC 21% below its late-September peak, the next flow prints will show whether the fund's buyers stay with the coin after its run.
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Bitcoin rose 0.9% to $84,376 after August core PCE came in at 3.0%, below the 3.3% economists expected. Lower odds of an October Fed hike did little for a market whose September rally ran on ETF inflows that have since faded.
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Wallets tied to the $387.5 million Bitget hack moved 2,746 ZEC, about $3.9 million, into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool on September 30. The deposit is about 1% of the theft, and across every route tracked so far roughly 13 dollars have gone dark for each dollar frozen.
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Bitcoin closes about $900 below its heaviest long-term holder band with leverage already cleared
Bitcoin's CMBI benchmark closed near $83,113, just under the $84,000-$85,000 band where Glassnode counts more long-term holder coins than at any other price. With futures leverage at its lowest since March, spot buyers and sellers will decide whether the band holds.
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Bitwise's NRR, the first US spot NEAR ETF, stakes its tokens and keeps about 67% of a roughly 5% reward rate for shareholders. After the 0.75% fee, that comes to roughly 2.6% a year in extra tokens, just above NEAR's 2.5% inflation.
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