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HedgeCo.Net \u2014 U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $606.3 million of net inflows on August 20, per Farside Investors\u2019 daily table. BlackRock\u2019s IBIT took $503.0 million, about 83% of the category. Fidelity\u2019s FBTC added $64.7 million, Bitwise\u2019s BITB $26.4 million, and ARK 21Shares\u2019 ARKB $12.2 million. Invesco Galaxy\u2019s BTCO contributed $3.6 million. VanEck\u2019s HODL posted a $3.6 million outflow. The remaining tracked products were flat. FinanceFeeds, writing from the same Farside prints this morning, confirmed the $606.3 million bitcoin total and the IBIT $503 million line.<\/p>\n
Ether funds added $219.5 million the same session, also on Farside, as relayed by FinanceFeeds. BlackRock\u2019s ETHA took $173.3 million and ETHB $35.9 million. Fidelity\u2019s FETH, Bitwise\u2019s ETHW, and VanEck\u2019s ETHV were small positives. No tracked ether ETF posted an outflow. Combined bitcoin-plus-ether inflows were about $825.8 million. That is a creation-unit print. It is not a hedge-fund P&L and it is not a statement about futures positioning.<\/p>\n
The August 20 bitcoin total is a second consecutive large day, not a first print. Farside has $297.5 million on August 17, $189.3 million on August 18, $517.2 million on August 19, and $606.3 million on August 20 \u2014 about $1.61 billion over four sessions. IBIT alone took $160.2 million, $143.6 million, $284.7 million, and $503.0 million across those four days, about $1.09 billion. Thursday\u2019s shorts already covered the August 19 $517 million \/ $189 million session. This is the next day\u2019s tape. Do not recycle Wednesday\u2019s number as Friday\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
For crypto-fund allocators the diligence is concentration inside the wrapper, not the four-day sum. An 83% IBIT share of a $606 million session is BlackRock winning the creation. It is not broad-based sponsorship across the 12-name complex. Ether\u2019s $219.5 million is a second-day acceleration from Farside\u2019s $186.8 million on August 19, still a fraction of bitcoin. Anyone treating four green sessions as a regime shift is reading a flow table as a commitment.<\/p>\n
The second-order read is how much of this bid is one issuer. Allocators should mark $606.3 million as the August 20 bitcoin print, $219.5 million as ether, and $503 million as IBIT\u2019s share \u2014 all Farside figures. Do not annualize four sessions. Do not treat creations as AUM that cannot reverse. The scarce object is a second issuer showing up in size, not another IBIT headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HedgeCo.Net \u2014 U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $606.3 million of net inflows on August 20, per Farside Investors\u2019 daily table. BlackRock\u2019s IBIT took $503.0 million, about 83% of the\u2026 Continue reading