Spot Bitcoin ETFs shatter buying and selling file with $7.69 billion

• Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a staggering $7.69 billion in buying and selling volumes on February 28.
• High ETF volumes had been with BlackRock’s IBIT, Grayscale’s GBTC and Constancy’s FBTC.
• Bitcoin value additionally rose sharply on Monday, hitting highs of $64k earlier than paring positive factors amid Coinbase community points.

Relentless demand for the lately accredited spot Bitcoin ETFs has pushed the buying and selling volumes to a brand new file.

On Wednesday, the US spot Bitcoin ETFs noticed an unbelievable $7.69 billion in quantity. In accordance with market knowledge monitoring the efficiency of those merchandise, Wednesday’s enormous buying and selling volumes shattered the day prior to this’s practically 2x.

Main the cost as has occurred in latest weeks is BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Belief (IBIT), with over $3.3 billion to account for practically 44% of the entire quantity. IBIT did greater than $1.3 billion on Monday.

Grayscale’s Bitcoin Belief (GBTC) and Constancy’s Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) additionally hit previous the billion milestone, recording $1.86 billion and $1.44 billion respectively.

RIDIC: the New 9 doubled their quantity file (set Monday) with nearly $6b traded.. $IBIT led w $3.3b of it, Constancy did $1.4b (each double their prev information). The whole variety of trades was double too, over half one million particular person trades bt them. $IBIT alone > $QQQ. pic.twitter.com/ZzB5PWXA4f

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) February 28, 2024

Commenting on the large traction, ETF analyst Eric Balchunas famous that the upsurge appears to be natural and never catalysed by algorithmic or arbitrage buying and selling. He famous on X:

“I requested round to some mkt makers and most say this quantity is basically perform of pure demand vs algo/arb sort quantity. Phrase is wirehouse platforms are severely including them quickly. I’m certain stress is mounting for them. They wish to see monitor file and receives a commission off however w grassroots demand like this they gonna need to expedite.”

The frenzy can be exhibiting within the Bitcoin futures ETFs market, Balchunas famous. With BITO, BITX and BITI all up on quantity, the entire for the Bitcoin ETFs approached the $10 billion mark.

Bitcoin value hits $64k

Bitcoin value has rallied for the reason that SEC accredited the spot Bitcoin ETFs in January, with the newest explosion sending the flagship cryptocurrency’s worth previous the $64,000 degree. As Bitcoin’s halving approaches, analysts say BTC value might soar to a brand new all-time excessive above $100k in 2024.

BTC traded round $62,570 on Thursday morning, up 5.3% up to now 24 hours and 22% up to now week.