With just days until the United States presidential election, Bitcoin investors’ bullishness continues — putting over $870 million more into BlackRock’s spot BTC exchange-traded fund, the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). This marked the highest inflow day for IBIT since its debut in mid-January this year.
Monster Day For BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust was the leader of the pack on Wednesday, with a mammoth $872 million net inflow. The figure has exceeded the fund’s previous high of $849 million posted on March 12, according to data tracked by Sosovalue. It also marked the 13th straight inflow day for IBIT.
Six other spot BTC ETFs also recorded inflows on Oct. 30, with $12.57 million entering Fidelity’s FBTC. Ark Invest and 21Shares’ ARKB, VanEck’s HODL, and Invesco’s BTCO each witnessed modest net inflows of less than $9 million. Bitwise’s BITB was the only fund with net outflows, shedding $23.9 million in investor money. In total, investors pumped $893.2 million into the 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs — marking their second-biggest tally in history.
Wednesday’s inflows brought the 11 Bitcoin ETFs’ cumulative net inflows since their introduction on January 11 to $24.18 billion, Farside data shows.
Meanwhile, Ethereum funds were not enjoying the same momentum, with zero flows for BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) and minor flows for Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH).
Bitcoin ETFs Racing To Overtake Satoshi
Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted in a post on X that the “Herculean” inflows into BlackRock’s IBIT likely propelled the number of Bitcoins held by the U.S. spot ETFs above the 1 million BTC milestone (valued at over $71.6 billion) ahead of schedule.
“Pretty apropos that the biggest daily inflow ever for $IBIT is what pushed the US spot ETFs over the 1 million Bitcoin held mark,” posited Balchunas.
He believes that the spot Bitcoin ETFs are on track to become the world’s largest Bitcoin holders as soon as this November, usurping the estimated 1.1 million BTC held by Bitcoin’s enigmatic inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto.
The Bloomberg analyst also observed that BTC ETF buying “started mostly retail” but has become increasingly institutional, with institutional shares of spot ETFs likely to hit within a year.