As an experienced financial analyst, I find the recent trend in digital asset investment products quite intriguing. The hawkish FOMC meeting caused a significant pullback from fixed-supply assets, leading to substantial outflows from Bitcoin and other digital asset classes. This represented the largest outflows since March 2024, with Bitcoin seeing a massive withdrawal of $621 million.


The more hawkish-than-anticipated Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting led investors to reduce their holdings of fixed-income assets. Consequently, there were withdrawals totaling $600 million from digital asset investment products.

As a researcher, I’ve observed that this week marked the most significant outflows since March 22, 2024. Additionally, the recent price drops intensified the pessimistic outlook, as shown in the reduction of total assets under management (AuM). The AuM decreased from over $100 billion to $94 billion during this period.

Investors Flee Fixed-Supply Assets

It’s intriguing to note that nearly all outflows, totaling $619.5 million, occurred in Bitcoin during the latest reporting period, as indicated by CoinShares’ Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report. Additionally, there were inflows of approximately $1.8 million into short-bitcoin investment products due to the prevailing bearish market sentiment, signifying investors’ intentions to profit from potential price declines.

In contrast, Ethereum-backed investment products experienced an inflow of approximately $13.1 million over the last week. Similarly, there were inflows totaling $2 million and $1.1 million for LIDO and XRP respectively, during the same time frame. Meanwhile, investments in Litecoin and Chainlink amounted to around $0.8 million each.

As an analyst, I’ve observed that Cardano witnessed approximately $0.7 million worth of investments flowing in during the last week. In contrast, Solana experienced a modest drain of around $0.2 million from its holdings over the same period.

Although there’s a fairly optimistic outlook towards investment items linked to altcoins, trading activity remained relatively sluggish last week, with a total of $11 billion exchanged. This falls short of the typical weekly volume of $22 billion seen in 2023. However, it’s worth mentioning that this number surpasses the $2 billion weekly trade volumes reported during the same period in the previous year.

Looking at the big picture, digital asset exchange-traded products (ETPs) accounted for approximately 31% of global trading volumes on reputable exchanges.

Regional Distribution

As a crypto investor, I’ve noticed that the US crypto market experienced significant outflows last week to the tune of $165 million. Similarly, Switzerland saw a weekly withdrawal of $23.7 million. Canada and Sweden both reported outflows of around $15 million each. Hong Kong also noted a relatively small outflow of $1.3 million. Overall, it seems that negative sentiment has led to a notable decrease in investment in these markets during the past week.

As an analyst, I’ve observed some intriguing trends in global fund flows. Contrary to the general downward pattern, Germany attracted a substantial inflow of approximately $17.4 million. Following suit was Australia with a smaller yet notable intake of around $1.7 million. Lastly, Brazil saw an influx of roughly $0.7 million.

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2024-06-17 20:56