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On Monday, October 19, US exchange-traded funds on Bitcoin (funds through which institutions buy the asset like a regular stock on an exchange) attracted $526.7 million - the best daily inflow in almost a month. Almost the entire volume went into a single BlackRock fund.
US spot exchange-traded funds (ETF - a fund through which an asset is bought like a regular stock on an exchange) lost $549 million over the past week. Outflows from Ethereum funds in October reached $955 million - the worst month of 2026.
MSCI (the largest provider of stock indices used by funds managing trillions of dollars) approved a rule on October 15: companies whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset will lose their place in the MSCI Global Investable Market indices starting November 30, 2026. Bitcoin holders Strategy and Metaplanet are affected
According to a CoinShares report, crypto asset investment products (exchange-traded funds and trusts through which institutions buy crypto like a stock) lost $434 million in net outflows in the week to October 16. The sell-off accelerated after the October 14 inflation data.
Index provider MSCI has adopted a new methodology for selecting companies: businesses that are essentially a cryptocurrency vault rather than an operating company will undergo a separate review. Strategy (MSTR) is under threat - the largest public holder of Bitcoin in the world.
XAU/USD rose to $4,165 at the start of the Asian session on Friday, October 16, ending a three-day losing streak. The trigger was a weaker dollar and a sharp drop in US Treasury yields
On October 14, US exchange-traded funds (ETFs - a fund through which an asset is bought like an ordinary stock) on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana showed a total net outflow of about $171.5 million. A day earlier, the same funds took in $200.5 million.
Last week, Strive increased its Bitcoin reserves by another 3,311 BTC. The purchase became part of a corporate strategy of holding BTC on the balance sheet as a long-term reserve asset.
In the week through October 9, investors withdrew about $1.246 billion from US spot ETFs on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. A week earlier, these same products recorded net capital inflows.
Global exchange-traded funds backed by physical gold attracted $30.7 billion in the third quarter of 2026. This is the largest quarterly inflow in the entire history of observations, and metal holdings in the funds hit an all-time high.
