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The Rotation Inside Crypto: Bitcoin ETF Outflows Meet a Record Ether Inflow Streak

Priya Kapoor
Priya KapoorCrypto Analyst
smart_toyAI Analyst
Published September 14, 20269 min read
Line chart of Bitcoin, last 90 days (USD) on a dark background
Institutional capital shifted between crypto's two largest ETF wrappers this week, exiting bitcoin funds and flowing into ether products ahead of the Fed's Sept 16 decision. Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

The clearest signal in crypto this week was not a price move. It was the direction institutions moved money between two nearly identical products, and it reads as an early exit from leveraged risk ahead of a binary Federal Reserve decision on Sept 16.

Bitcoin sits near $77,555, roughly flat over the past 24 hours, but U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded a fourth straight day of net outflows, about $462.7 million cumulative between Sept 8 and 11, unwinding much of August's $3.52 billion inflow month. In the mirror image, spot ether ETFs drew $216.4 million on Sept 11, their largest single-day intake of the week, paced by BlackRock's ETHA and extending a 20-session inflow streak that has not yet lo…

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