It’s happened again—money, glorious money, continues to thunder into the ever-thirsty mouth of crypto funds for the fourth incredible week in a row, according to the perpetual bean-counters over at CoinShares. These folks possess a truly heroic ability to count money in units so huge they probably need physicists to help label the numbers.
Last week served up a tidy $882 million in fresh capital thrown at all things digital and unspendable, nudging 2025’s grand total up to a pant-wetting $6.7 billion. To put that in perspective, that’s just one good crypto joke away from matching the early February record of $7.3 billion.
Bitcoin: Still at the Top Table, Refusing to Leave
Bitcoin, like your uncle who brought his own bottle of Scotch to a family wedding, remains firmly glued to the spotlight. Last week investors stuffed another $867 million into Bitcoin’s mattress, and the US-based ETFs tallied up a new record for collective inflows: $62.9 billion since January 2024. That’s a mind-bending amount of money to funnel into anything that isn’t a Swiss bank account or an offshore yacht dealership.
Meanwhile, Ethereum is still hanging around, clutching its drink and smiling politely at conversations it clearly isn’t a part of. ETH products could only rustle up $1.5 million in net inflows—a nice amount if you’re buying a used car, not so much if you’re trying to justify your position as The Second Most Important Cryptocurrency.
Still #1 at FOMO
The US remains the undisputed king of crypto inflows, clocking in at $840 million. Germany’s no slouch, alongside its excellent bread, sending in $44.5 million, and Australia hopped aboard with $10.2 million (presumably in between surfing and extreme weather events). Meanwhile, Canada and Hong Kong posted minor outflows, possibly because investors there enjoy defying expectations or simply had better things to do.
This regional split may say something profound about the relative sophistication of various markets, or—it could just be that Canadians decided to buy more maple syrup futures instead. Who’s to say?
The big idea here is institutional investors have started treating Bitcoin and friends as a sort of disaster hedge, just in case regular money goes the way of Blockbuster Video. Recent US laws treating Bitcoin like a piggy-bank for rainy days only adds wood to the fire.
As Bitcoin continues to hoover up the cash, trailblazers like Sui suggest more investors are on the lookout for the next can’t-miss blockchain. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time for your friendly neighbourhood fund manager to spread the love—and the risk—beyond the familiar faces at the top of the crypto charts.
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2025-05-13 06:53