Ethereum beats bitcoin first-day spot ETF inflows
Ethereum is approximately one-third the size of Bitcoin, and the debut of its spot ETFs was slightly less than commensurate by size. However, ether has outperformed bitcoin when we look at the absolute value of its net flows on the day of its ETFs debut. Ether posted a positive $107 million versus bitcoin’s decidedly negative -$1.5 billion. First-day trading volume of Blackrock’s spot ether ETF totaled approximately one-quarter the volume of first-day trading volume of Blackrock’s spot bitcoin ETF. Combined, trading volume for all nine spot ether ETFs totaled $1.112 billion yesterday — slightly under one-quarter the volume of all spot bitcoin ETFs on their debut day. At the close of after-hours trading on US markets, net flow data was unavailable for two spot ether ETFs: Blackrock (ETHA) and Invesco/Galaxy (QETH). Excluding those two funds with unavailable data, most reporters went to bed reporting that money probably flowed out of spot ether ETFs. Net flows ex-ETHA/QETH tot...