In its greatest day since early March, when the US-Iran battle began to kick into high gear, investors poured $269.3 million into BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust on Thursday. Twelve US-based Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had a net inflow of $358.1 million, reversing a two-day net outflow. A measure of institutional and retail demand for Bitcoin may be seen in the inflows into Bitcoin ETFs.
Farside Investors data shows that the new Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) recorded $14.9 million on its second day of trading, making it the second highest contributor, and that the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) pulled in $53.3 million, the second most inflows overall.
Inflows of around $2 million were recorded by VanEck and Franklin Templeton for its Bitcoin products, while Bitwise and ARK 21Shares’ Bitcoin ETFs received $11.7 million and $4.8 million, respectively. With Bitcoin’s price falling from a 2026 high of $97,000 to $72,200 at the time of writing, the larger crypto market decline has not stopped BlackRock’s IBIT from seeing $1.5 billion worth of net inflows this year.
Robert Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock, said in March that IBIT investors have been “disproportionately long-term buy and hold” even though there has been significant selling pressure in the Bitcoin ecosystem. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Amy Oldenburg, head of digital assets at Morgan Stanley, said that MSBT was the best-performing ETF launch in the history of the institutional bank.
The most recent day of inflows has brought US spot Bitcoin ETFs dangerously close to resuming a net inflow for the year. The net inflows into Bitcoin ETFs were $56.59 billion at the end of 2025 and are now $56.51 billion, putting them within $80 million of their initial inflow estimates for the year.
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