Bitcoin News: Bitcoin ETFs Just Turned Positive Across Every Timeframe
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Bitcoin ETFs absorbed roughly 19,000 BTC over the past eight trading days—about nine times what miners produced in the same window.
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BlackRock’s IBIT now holds 806,700 BTC—about 3.8% of Bitcoin’s total supply—and is the top 1% of all US-listed ETFs by inflows.
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With so much of Bitcoin’s supply now locked inside ETFs and corporate treasuries like Strategy, there’s less free float left to absorb buying when demand returns.
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Bitcoin spot ETFs are having their strongest stretch of 2026. BTC ETFs have now logged eight straight days of inflows through April 23, pulling in $2.43 billion in April alone—nearly double March’s $1.32 billion haul.
BlackRock’s IBIT is driving most of it. IBIT has absorbed over $3 billion year-to-date, placing it in the top 1% of all ETFs by flows and pushing its total Bitcoin holdings above 800,000 BTC for the first time. On April 23 alone, IBIT accounted for $167.49 million of the $223.21 million in total Bitcoin ETF inflows—roughly 75% of the day’s flows.
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So can this pace push lifetime Bitcoin ETF inflows past their $62.8 billion all-time high?
Bitcoin ETFs haven’t looked this healthy all year. Whether you measure flows by the day, the week, the month, or the year so far, every window is now green. Monthly ETF flows have climbed to $2.16 billion, and year-to-date flows have flipped positive to $1.85 billion after being deep in the red through Q1.
In February, the Bitcoin ETFs saw $206 million in net outflows, and January was even worse with nearly $1.6 billion leaving the funds. What’s astonishing is that the ETFs have pulled in more flows during the past eight days that roughly erases what they lost in those two months combined.
Bitcoin’s lifetime cumulative inflows have crept up to $58.55 billion on the back of the current streak. The ETFs absorbed roughly 19,000 BTC over those days—about nine times what miners produced in the same window. At this pace, the all-time cumulative record is within reach before the month closes.
Bitcoin’s ETF recovery looks broad on the surface, but almost all of it is coming from one fund: BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). Between April 13 and April 17, IBIT absorbed $906 million of the $996 million that flowed into the entire Bitcoin ETFs—91% of all flows going into one product.
IBIT has been leading all year, not just last week. The fund’s net assets have now totalled $63.14 billion, and its top 1% ETF ranking covers every fund on the U.S. market—not just crypto products. That puts BlackRock’s Bitcoin fund among the biggest inflow magnets across the entire ETF industry.
The renewed buying has now pushed IBIT’s total Bitcoin holdings to 806,700 BTC—about 3.8% of Bitcoin’s entire 21 million supply, and more Bitcoin than any country on the planet holds. One ETF, one asset manager, now controls a supply share that nobody would have predicted when IBIT launched in January 2024.
If you’ve been feeling cautious about Bitcoin this week, you’re not alone. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is now at 39, down by seven points in a single day and firmly back in the fear zone. Retail traders watched the Bitcoin price rally into the resistance near $79,000 on Wednesday and stall on Thursday, and they’re getting more cautious.
As retail traders hold back to see what Bitcoin does, institutions are stacking up more BTC. Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $335 million on April 22—the biggest daily inflow of April—and kept absorbing capital despite the Thursday pullback that spooked retail traders.
When ETF inflows keep grinding higher even as sentiment drops, it usually means the biggest buyers have already decided Bitcoin is cheap at this price. The same thing happened in March, when the Fear & Greed Index was near single digits and ETFs still absorbed $1.32 billion for the month. And now, six weeks later, Bitcoin is trading above $78,000, and could break $80K soon.
The all-time Bitcoin inflow record is within striking distance. Bitcoin ETFs sit roughly $4 billion shy of their lifetime peak and have been pulling in roughly $110 million per trading day this April. Another week of that pace gets the total close enough that a single strong session—the kind we’ve already seen twice this month—would push the record over the line before May.
Strong ETF inflows don’t automatically translate into a Bitcoin price rally, but they do tighten the available supply of Bitcoin in circulation. With so much of the circulating supply now locked inside ETFs and corporate treasuries like Strategy, the market has less free float to absorb any upside demand. When buyers return, that kind of supply tightness tends to produce sharp moves.
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