Digital Asset Fund Inflows Hit $9.5B YTD

Digital Asset Fund Inflows Hit $9.5B YTD

Digital asset investment products saw inflows totaling US$306 million last week.

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Takeaways

  • Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling US$306m last week, bringing month-to-date inflows to US$787m and year-to-date inflows to a record US$9.5bn.
  • Bitcoin saw the largest inflows in 5 weeks totalling US$247m following the launch of another investment product in Europe.
  • In terms of inflows relative to AuM, Polkadot and Solana continue to be the winners, with inflows representing 8.6% (US$11.5m) and 5.9% (US$14.6m) of AuM respectively last week.
  • We are now tracking Blockchain exchange traded products. Blockchain ETPs now have US$3.7bn of AuM.

 

Weekly Crypto asset Flows

 

Flows by Provider

 

 

Flows by Assets

 

Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling US$306m last week, bringing month-to-date inflows to US$787m and year-to-date inflows to a record US$9.5bn. Continued price pressures saw total assets under management (AuM) fall from US$75.4bn to US$72.8bn.

Bitcoin saw the largest inflows in 5 weeks totalling US$247m following the launch of another investment product in Europe. This brings the 11 week run of inflows to US$2.7bn.

Ethereum saw inflows totalling US$23m last week, marking its 5th consecutive week of inflows.

In terms of inflows relative to AuM, Polkadot and Solana continue to be the winners, with inflows representing 8.6% (US$11.5m) and 5.9% (US$14.6m) of AuM respectively last week.

Multi-asset investment products saw inflows totalling US$9.1m last week and represent the third largest investment product by AuM at US$4.6bn.

We are now tracking Blockchain equity ETPs which now have US$3.7bn of AuM. We saw inflows of US$20m last week with YTD inflows now standing at US$2bn. On a proportional basis this inflow is roughly half (6.4% of AuM) the inflows seen in pure-crypto related ETPs (13.1% of AuM).

 

Weekly Crypto Asset Flows by Institution

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Weekly Crypto Asset Flows by Asset

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Digital Asset ETP & Mutual fund Net New Assets

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Crypto Asset Fund Flows as Percentage of Fund AuM

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Blockchain Equities ETFPs

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Bitcoin ETP & Mutual Fund Tumover as % of Total Bitcoin

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Contact James Butterfill at [email protected]

James Butterfill has over 19 years of experience in fund management, investment banking, economics and asset allocation, gained most recently as an investment strategist at CoinShares. Previously, he was head of research at ETF Securities, with prior experience as a multi-asset fund manager and investment strategist at Coutts & Co., HSBC & ING Barings. James is a regular media commentator, and frequently appears on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, BBC and other broadcast outlets. Investment Week awarded him best ETF Eesearch and best FX Research in 2016 and 2017, respectively. James is currently an investment strategist at CoinShares, writing research white papers on investment themes, identifying investment opportunities and helping investors understand the digital asset world.