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Investors piled $269.3 million into BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust on Thursday, in its best-performing day since early March, around the time the US-Iran war started to kick into high gear.&nbsp;
The inflows helped to end two days of net outflows among the 12 US spot Bitcoin ETFs, which recorded a net inflow of $358.1 million.
Bitcoin ETF inflows are just one way to gauge retail and institutional demand for Bitcoin.
The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) brought in the second most inflows at $53.3 million, while the new <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/morgan-stanley-bitcoin-etf-trails-blackrock-with-30m-in-first-day-inflows" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust</a> (MSBT) was the next biggest contributor, recording $14.9 million on its second day of trading, according to <a href="https://farside.co.uk/btc/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">data</a> from Farside Investors.
The Bitcoin ETFs issued by Bitwise and ARK 21Shares saw $11.7 million and $4.8 million worth of inflows, while Franklin Templeton and VanEck’s Bitcoin products tallied around $2 million. 
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 <figcaption>Flow data for the US spot Bitcoin ETFs since March 23. Source: <a href="https://farside.co.uk/btc/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Farside Investors</a> 
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BlackRock’s IBIT has now seen $1.5 billion worth of net inflows this year, withstanding a broader <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etfs-sell-off-investors-fear-weekend-escalation" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto market pullback,</a> which has seen Bitcoin’s price fall from a 2026 high of $97,000 to $72,100 at the time of writing.
BlackRock’s digital assets head, <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-wont-consider-exotic-crypto-etfs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Robert Mitchnick,</a> said in March that investors of<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etf-225-million-inflows-blackrock-ibit-counters-selling" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> BlackRock’s IBIT</a> have shown to be “disproportionately long-term buy and hold” investors — even when there’s been strong selling pressure elsewhere in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley’s digital asset head, Amy Oldenburg, <a href="https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/2042337484747784386" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">noted</a> in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday that MSBT was the institutional bank’s best-performing ETF launch ever.
“This is just the first of a long roadmap of new products on the asset management side,” Oldenburg said.&nbsp;
Morgan Stanley has also<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/morgan-stanley-files-staking-eth-etf-third-crypto-fund" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> filed to list</a> a staked Ether (<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ETH</a>) ETF and Solana (<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">SOL</a>) ETF.
With the latest day of inflows, US spot Bitcoin ETFs are now close to tipping back to a year-to-date net inflow.&nbsp;
The Bitcoin ETFs <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-spot-crypto-etfs-see-32-billion-inflows-2025" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">finished 2025 at $56.59 billion</a> in net inflows and are currently at $56.51 billion, meaning that they’re just $80 million away from clawing back to their inflow figures at the start of the year.&nbsp;
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BlackRock Bitcoin ETF sees $269M inflows, best day since early March

Cointelegraph

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