Cryptocurrency investment products saw $360 million in outflows last week as investors reacted to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s cautious remarks on future rate cuts.
Despite Wednesday’s rate cut, Powell’s remark that another one in December was “not a foregone conclusion,” combined with the absence of economic data due to the ongoing government shutdown, appears to have left markets uncertain, CoinShares
Most of the selling pressure came from the US markets, which saw $439 million in outflows, partly offset by modest inflows from Germany and Switzerland. Bitcoin ETFs led the decline with $946 million in redemptions.
Weekly crypto asset flows. Source:
Even as Bitcoin funds bore the brunt of outflows, not all assets followed suit. Solana stood out, attracting $421 million in inflows, its second-largest on record, driven by demand for newly launched US exchange-traded funds (ETFs), lifting year-to-date totals to $3.3 billion.
Ethereum also saw $57.6 million in inflows, although daily activity suggested a mixed sentiment among investors.
The outflows come after crypto products amassed
$921 million in inflows
the previous week, driven by lower-than-expected Consumer Price Index (CPI)
released on Oct. 24.
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New Solana staking ETF
Bitwise’s new Solana Staking ETF (BSOL) debuted last Tuesday at $222.8 million in seed assets, signaling
strong institutional demand
for Solana staking products.
BSOL offers investors direct exposure to Solana (
estimated 7% annual yield
from onchain staking rewards.
By Friday, spot Solana ETFs had logged a f
ourth straight day of inflows
, adding $44.48 million.
Vincent Liu, chief investment officer at Kronos Research, told Cointelegraph the trend reflects growing interest in staking yields and ongoing “capital rotation,” as traders take profits from recent Bitcoin (
) and Ether (
Although Solana ETF inflows have surged, at the time of writing, SOL was trading around $166, down over 9% during the past 24 hours and around 26% over the past 30 days, according to CoinGecko
Solana price chart. Source:
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