Crypto funds see $206 million in weekly outflows

Crypto funds closed another week in the minus. A net $206 million came out of funds last week. Bitcoin funds sold $192 million and Ether funds sold $34 million. Experts say that investor appetite in ETFs continues to decline and the main reason for this is the view that the Fed will support the high interest rate environment for longer than expected.

Crypto funds see $206 million in weekly outflows

Cryptocurrency funds continue to see sales as it is certain that the Fed will not raise interest rates at its meeting on May 1. Funds had a net outflow of $206 million last week.

6th consecutive loss from Ether funds

According to Coinshares’ weekly report, the biggest share was, as always, Bitcoin. There was an outflow of $192 million from Bitcoin funds. Ethereum funds closed the 6th week in a row with losses. Ether funds ended the week $34 million negative.

3 important investments in altcoins…

Despite the big outflows in Bitcoin and Ether, some altcoins continued to see the kind of investment seen last week. Litecoin funds received a net $3.2 million. The figure for LTC funds since the beginning of the month was $9.2 million. Polkadot funds received $1.5 million, bringing the total investment since the beginning of the month to $2.9 million. The surprise of the week came from Chainlink funds. LINK funds received an investment of $1.7 million.

Grayscale finally lowered its transaction fee

Grayscale closed the week with a net loss of $450 million. The company, which could not prevent the exits, recently announced that the transaction fee in the Mini Bitcoin Fund would be 0.15%. Although the transaction fee in the GBTC fund has not decreased, the company announced that it will allocate 10% of the GBTC fund to the mini fund. Experts say that Grayscale’s move is a remedy to the unstoppable fund outflows for months.

BlackRock and Fidelity closed last week up $165 million and $94 million, respectively, and extinguished some of the outflows from ETFs.

Net outflows in US ETFs were $244 million on a weekly basis.

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