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Bitcoin dominates record crypto fund inflows as investor momentum builds in early 2026

Crypto ETPs gather steam with $2.2B inflows, Bitcoin dominates gains
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Bitcoin made up 71% of the $2.17 billion that went into crypto funds last week. Ether and Solana stayed strong even though the US government proposed the CLARITY Act to limit stablecoin returns.

Crypto investment products continued to gain momentum. Fund inflows were higher than any other week in 2026 so far and were the biggest gains since October.

Last week, $2.17 billion came into crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), according to European crypto asset management firm CoinShares.

Most of the money that came in was earlier in the week, but on Friday, things changed when $378 million left because of rising tensions in Greenland and new tariff concerns, according to CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill.

The The analyst further stated that sentiment was also weighed down by suggestions regarding Kevin Hassett, a well-known economist. policy dove and a leading candidate for the next US Fed Chair, is likely to stay in his current role.

Bitcoin leads while Ether and Solana show resilience

Bitcoin (BTC) at $93,121 brought in $1.55 billion, or more than 71% of the overall weekly haul. This was the main reason why most of last week’s crypto fund gains were in Bitcoin. Ether (ETH) $3,228 funds brought in $496 million, which is more than the entire amount that all crypto products brought in the week before.

XRP (XRP $1.97) and Solana (SOL $134.08) funds came next, bringing in about $70 million and $46 million, respectively. Sui (SUI) at $1.56 and Hedera (HBAR) at $0.11, two smaller altcoins, saw inflows of $5.7 million and $2.6 million, respectively.

CoinShares’ Butterfill also said that Ether and Solana inflows stayed strong even though the US Senate Banking Committee is considering the CLARITY Act, which might limit the yield offerings of stablecoins.

Issuer and Regional Breakdown of Capital Flows

By Friday, only two types of investment products had lost money in the last month: multi-asset and short Bitcoin. The total amount lost was $32 million and $8.6 million.

Last week, all of the big issuers had big gains. BlackRock’s iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw the most inflows, at $1.3 billion. Next came Greyscale Investments with $257 million and Fidelity Investments with $229 million.

The US received the highest inflow of $2 billion, while Sweden and Brazil had minimal outflows of $4.3 million and $1 million, respectively.

For the first time since early November, the total amount of assets under management in crypto funds rose beyond $193 billion with the most recent inflows.

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