Mass ETF outflows hit crypto funds

Institutional products saw heavy redemptions this week — Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $171M in outflows while Ethereum funds entered a seven‑day outflow streak totaling hundreds of millions, triggering one of the largest single‑day ETF drains in weeks. BlackRock and Fidelity led much of the selling, and BlackRock reportedly sold $42M in BTC and $142M in ETH while moving ~$180M of crypto onto Coinbase. (coindesk.com), (crypto.news), (livebitcoinnews.com), (u.today)

SoSoValue and Farside Investors were the primary flow trackers cited across coverage of the March 26–27 ETF moves, with CoinDesk publishing a flow summary on March 27, 2026. (coindesk.com) BlackRock’s IBIT, Fidelity’s FBTC, ARK’s ARKB and Grayscale’s GBTC were identified as the largest single‑day net redemptions among U.S. spot bitcoin products during that reporting window, per Farside-derived reporting. (newsbreak.com) Aggregating across the month, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $2.5 billion of net inflows through March 2026, a Bloomberg‑cited figure that multiple outlets reported in late March. (decrypt.co) On‑chain analysis published earlier in January shows BlackRock‑linked wallets moved more than $430 million in bitcoin and ether to Coinbase Prime, demonstrating prior large custody transfers tied to major issuers. (coindesk.com) Ethereum‑focused funds logged a seven‑day streak of net redemptions amounting to about $390 million over the March flow window, according to crypto.news/Blockchair tallies, and Ether’s spot price breached the $2,000 level on March 27, 2026, with CoinMarketCap reporting a March 27 close of $1,991.27 and Coinglass flagging roughly $111 million of long liquidations in the 24‑hour move. (blockchair.com) Santiment‑derived flow analysis shows March contained extreme ETF trading days—March 2 saw ~$31.6 billion in ETF trading volume and mid‑March sessions near $21 billion—yet several of those high‑volume days still finished with net redemptions, highlighting repeated large‑volume trade‑through events in March. (btc.network)

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