Bitcoin ETF inflows snap after $3 billion streak as ETH, XRP and Solana keep buying

Here is the latest from the digital-asset markets: US-listed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) lost $201. 9 million Friday, ending a nine-day inflow streak as Ethereum, XRP and Solana funds kept attracting cash. The reversal came as Bitcoin fell about 3.

2% to $77,696 on Aug. Meanwhile, Ethereum, XRP and Solana ETFs attracted a combined $145 million in net inflows. The split shows Friday’s weakness was concentrated in Bitcoin rather than across the US crypto ETF market.

Market Dynamics

It does not establish that investors directly rotated from Bitcoin into other assets because fund-level data does not identify individual buyers. Notably, Bitcoin ETFs still finished the five sessions through Aug. 5 million of net inflows, leaving their broader weekly demand positive despite the streak ending.

Therefore, the one-day divergence does not establish a rotation away from Bitcoin. Instead, it marks a brief pause in a market that has attracted significant inflows. Related Reading Bitcoin ETFs inflow streak reaches $2.

2 billion in 6 days as assets near $100 billion Bitcoin loses a key source of breakout support According to Farside Investors data, ARK 21Shares’ ARKB led Friday’s withdrawals with $114. 9 million, followed by Bitwise’s BITB at $49. BlackRock’s IBIT lost $33.

Market Impact

4 million after driving much of the preceding buying run, while VanEck’s HODL shed $13. 3 million inflow into Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin Trust partly offset those redemptions. The negative session interrupted a nine-day run that had absorbed $3.

0442 billion and emerged as one of the strongest sources of support behind Bitcoin’s late-August recovery. Ecoinometrics, a Bitcoin-focused research firm, had described the streak as the largest uninterrupted ETF buying run of the current bear market, with cumulative demand reaching roughly the scale seen around Bitcoin’s 2025 all-time high. It added: “Since this breakout began, we have seen nothing but inflows.

More importantly, the cumulative buying has now made this the strongest streak of ETF inflows of the entire bear market. ” Bitcoin ETFs $3 Billion Inflow Streak (Source: Ecoinometrics) Friday erased only about 6. 6% of that nine-session haul.

Crypto markets are watching this development closely as investors weigh its potential impact on prices.