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Institutions Exit Bitcoin In Large Tranches, Ethereum, Solana And XRP See Massive Buy-Ins

New reports reveal that institutional investors are pulling out of Bitcoin (BTC) and now moving funds into Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and ￰0￱ to a new CoinShares report, ETH, SOL, and XRP are seeing strong inflows as investors take advantage of price dips, even as BTC experiences one of the largest weekly outflows of the ￰1￱ Institutions Drive Largest Weekly Bitcoin Outflows The CoinShares report, published on October 20, shows that digital asset investment products faced a tough week following the liquidity shock on Friday , October ￰2￱ outflows from crypto Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) hit $513 million, marking one of the year’s largest weekly ￰3￱ ultimately brought cumulative outflows since the liquidation event to $668 million, suggesting that ETP investors remained unfazed while on-chain investors turned more ￰4￱ reported that most of the selling pressure was heavily concentrated in the United States (US), which alone saw $621 million leave the market, as institutional investors offloaded Bitcoin positions in massive ￰5￱ the US experienced significant outflows, other countries like Germany recorded inflows of $54.2 million, Switzerland saw $48 million, and Canada added $42.4 million, as investors in those regions used the price drop to buy the ￰6￱ was hit the hardest during the liquidity cascade, recording $946 million in outflows, according to CoinShares ￰7￱ widespread sell-off came as confidence among US institutional investors weakened following the Binance liquidity incident and the US 100% tariff hike on Chinese imported ￰8￱ also disclosed that Bitcoin’s Year-to-Date (YTD) inflows now stand at $29.3 billion, falling short of the $41.7 billion recorded in ￰9￱ the sell-off, trading activity across the market stayed ￰10￱ trading volumes for digital asset ETP hit $51 billion, nearly double this year’s weekly ￰11￱ Dump BTC For Ethereum, Solana, And XRP While institutions dumped Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP saw a wave of institutional ￰12￱ led the inflows, pulling in $205 million as investors took the cryptocurrency’s weakness and price decline as a buying opportunity .

A 2x leveraged Ethereum ETP also saw inflows totalling $457 million, marking the largest weekly inflow according to ￰13￱ and XRP followed closely, driven by growing anticipation over their potential ETP ￰14￱ reported that SOL brought in $156 million, while XRP attracted $73.9 million in new ￰15￱ movements suggest that BTC is no longer dominating institutional portfolios and investors are growing increasingly bullish on the long-term potential of Ethereum, Solana, and ￰16￱ to the latest data from CoinMarketCap, the Bitcoin price has dropped over 3% and is currently at around $107,589. Ethereum has also declined by more than 4.8%, trading at $3,864, while Solana and XRP have fallen to $183 and $2.42, down by 4.78% and 1.23%, respectively.

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