Thursday's session kept building on a trend that's been forming all week. The whole market pushed higher, and crypto ETF news flows followed the same script again.
Global market cap sat at $2.62 trillion, up 0.71%, per CoinMarketCap. The CMC20 index, which tracks the top 20 coins by market cap, rose 0.38% to $160.25.
Liquidations came in at $1.32B over 24 hours, down 41.31% from the prior session, a sign things cooled off rather than heating up further.
BTC traded near $77,182, roughly flat to slightly lower. ETH held around $2,423, up 0.6%. XRP was the standout, jumping 9.11% to trade near $1.51, the biggest mover of the three. That broad strength carried straight into fund flows.
Source: CoinMarketCap data
Key Takeaways
This Crypto ETF News roundup covers all three major spot fund categories:
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $307.45M in net inflows, the fifth straight day of positive flows, according to WuBlockchain.
Spot Ethereum ETFs added $184.93M, also extending a five-day streak.
XRP ETFs added $18.38M, with Bitwise's fund carrying most of that flow.
BlackRock's Bitcoin and Ethereum products alone brought in close to $390M combined.
Bitcoin's price sat near $77,182, valued near $1.54 trillion, with a 24-hour volume of $65.31B, per CoinMarketCap data.
Per SoSoValue, spot Bitcoin funds pulled in $307.45M on August 21, pushing total net assets to $96.07B, or about 6.17% of Bitcoin's market cap. Cumulative inflows since launch now stand at $53.71B.
Source: SoSoValue BTC Data
Inflows were broad, but BlackRock still did most of the heavy lifting:
| Issuer | Net Inflow (Aug 21) |
| BlackRock (IBIT) | +$239.28M |
| Fidelity (FBTC) | +$30.19M |
| Grayscale (BTC) | +$13.62M |
| Bitwise (BITB) | +$9.21M |
| Morgan Stanley (MSBT) | +$7.73M |
| VanEck (HODL) | +$4.36M |
| Ark & 21Shares (ARKB) | +$3.07M |
The week's total Bitcoin fund buying is near $1.92B, which they describe as the largest weekly haul since the October 2025 flash crash.
That figure isn't something this article can independently confirm beyond what's been publicly shared, but it lines up with the daily pattern above.
Source: TedPillows on X
Ethereum traded near $2,423, up 0.6%, valued around $292.43B, with 24-hour volume up 14.28% to $34.86B, per CoinMarketCap data.
Per SoSoValue, Ethereum funds added $184.93M on August 21, pushing total net assets to $14.29B, about 4.85% of ETH's market cap. Cumulative inflows since launch sit at $12.15B.
Source: SoSoValue ETH Data
BlackRock's ETHA did most of the work here too:
| Issuer | Net Inflow (Aug 21) |
| BlackRock (ETHA) | +$150.83M |
| Grayscale (ETH) | +$11.51M |
| BlackRock (ETHB) | +$9.94M |
| Fidelity (FETH) | +$9.62M |
| Bitwise (ETHW) | +$2.24M |
| Morgan Stanley (MSSE) | +$0.78M |
As with Bitcoin funds, every issuer that saw activity added money; none recorded a net outflow.
XRP traded near $1.51, up 9.11%, the largest single-day percentage move of the three, valued around $94.83B, with volume up 84.21% to $16.85B, per CoinMarketCap data.
Per SoSoValue, spot XRP funds recorded an $18.38M net inflow on August 21. Total net assets sit at $1.33B, about 1.54% of the coin's market cap, with $1.55B in cumulative inflows since launch.
Source: SoSoValue XRP Data
| Issuer | Net Inflow (Aug 21) |
| Bitwise (XRP) | +$16.89M |
| Franklin (XRPZ) | +$1.49M |
XRP's dollar inflow remains far smaller than either larger fund category, even though its price posted by far the biggest percentage gain of the three today.
Bitcoin and Ethereum funds just logged their fifth straight inflow session, another strong entry in this week's crypto ETF news, and the pattern that's built up is hard to ignore.
Liquidations falling more than 41% alongside rising prices suggests less forced selling and more organic buying, while a claimed $1.92B in weekly Bitcoin fund purchases, if accurate, would mark the strongest stretch since the October 2025 flash crash.
Whether this trend keeps compounding into next week or cools off after five strong sessions is the key thing to watch. Nothing here guarantees a bigger move is coming, and past streaks have reversed before, sometimes quickly. But a chart that keeps climbing session after session tends to draw more attention the longer it holds.
Analysis: The breadth of Thursday's inflows, spanning nearly every tracked issuer rather than just BlackRock alone, suggests this move reflects broader risk-on positioning tied to the market-wide rally rather than an isolated allocation decision by a single fund.
XRP's comparatively smaller but still positive inflow, arriving on its biggest percentage price move of the three, points to demand possibly spreading further down the list of assets as the rally builds.
Whether that breadth holds through next week is the question worth following from here in crypto ETF news.
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