{"id":56571,"date":"2023-07-25T02:36:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=56571"},"modified":"2023-07-25T02:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T02:36:17","slug":"crypto-investors-cool-on-bitcoin-funds-turning-to-ether-and-xrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=56571","title":{"rendered":"Crypto investors cool on Bitcoin funds, turning to Ether and XRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-v-2649fa34=\"\">\n<p>Bitcoin-related investment products appear to have lost some of their sheen among crypto investors, recording its first week of outflows since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-interview-charles-edwards\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-interview-charles-edwards\/amp\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackrock filed for spot Bitcoin ETF<\/a>\u00a0in June.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinshares.com\/volume-141-digital-asset-fund-flows-weekly-report-38255b443eae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According<\/a> to a July 24 report by CoinShares\u2019 head of research, James Butterfill, Bitcoin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\" rel=\"noopener\">(BTC)<\/a> investment products saw outflows of $13 million for the week ending July 21, reversing five weeks of inflows.<\/p>\n<p>Short Bitcoin products also saw outflows of $5.5 million in the week. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 50 ~ Neutral<br \/>Current price: $29,178 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T1DMFpsX9p\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/T1DMFpsX9p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index (@BitcoinFear) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinFear\/status\/1683628159051112448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">July 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In contrast, Ethereum <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\" rel=\"noopener\">(ETH)<\/a> and XRP (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/xrp-price-index\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cointelegraph.com\/xrp-price-index\" rel=\"noopener\">XRP<\/a>) investment products recorded combined inflow of $9.2 million over the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfill noted that Ethereum investment products were the best performer last week with inflows of $6.6 million, while XRP funds recorded an inflow of $2.6 million.\u00a0Other altcoins, such as Solana (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/solana-price-index\" rel=\"noopener\">SOL<\/a>) and Polygon (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/polygon-price-index\" rel=\"noopener\">MATIC<\/a>) tracked inflows of $1.1 million and $0.7 million respectively.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2023-07\/4ee05d90-bfbf-4cb5-bfd1-376b78ab609a.png\" \/><figcaption style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Flows by the top digital asset investment products. Source: CoinShares.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The apparent change of heart follows Ripple\u2019s partial victory against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, where the court ruled that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ripple-wins-case-against-sec-as-judge-rules-xrp-is-not-a-security\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ripple-wins-case-against-sec-as-judge-rules-xrp-is-not-a-security\/amp\" rel=\"noopener\">XRP isn\u2019t a security<\/a> when sold on exchanges to the general public. <\/p>\n<p>The news spiked XRP\u2019s price up 76% to $0.83 before cooling off to $0.69 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-interview-charles-edwards\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-interview-charles-edwards\/amp\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>BlackRock ETF will be \u2018big rubber yes stamp\u2019 for Bitcoin \u2014 Charles Edwards <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin however still remains the dominant digital asset investment product, with $558 million in inflows so far in 2023 and a total of $25.0 billion in assets under management \u2014 amounting to 67.4% of the total market share.<\/p>\n<p>BTC is currently priced at $29,128, down 3.1% over the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last month, a host of financial institutions have filed for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-trust-good-or-bad-for-btc\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-trust-good-or-bad-for-btc\/amp\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin spot Exchange Traded Fund applications <\/a>with the SEC since mid-June, including BlackRock, ARK Invest, Fidelity, Galaxy Digital, VanEck, Valkyrie Investments, NYDIG, SkyBridge and WisdomTree.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Magazine: <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/orange-pill-children-bitcoin-kids-books\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Should you \u2018orange pill\u2019 children? The case for Bitcoin kids books<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-btc-outflows-coinshares-while-ether-xrp-gain\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin-related investment products appear to have lost some of their sheen among crypto investors, recording its first week of outflows since Blackrock filed for spot Bitcoin ETF\u00a0in June. According to a July 24 report by CoinShares\u2019 head of research, James Butterfill, Bitcoin (BTC) investment products saw outflows of $13 million for the week ending July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37],"tags":[50,4281,62,369,1351,102,384,58],"class_list":["post-56571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-cool","tag-crypto","tag-ether","tag-funds","tag-investors","tag-turning","tag-xrp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjMtMDcvYTk5NDY3NDctZWIyYy00NWY2LTgyMzAtOTUxYjI3NzBjYTBhLmpwZw.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56573,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56571\/revisions\/56573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}