Money Keeps Flowing: Crypto Funds Hit Record $6-B Inflows

Investment flows into crypto exchange-traded products surged to a record level last week, signaling strong demand from large ￰0￱ Reading: Bitcoin Breaks $123,000 As Rising Open Interest Signals More Action Ahead According to CoinShares, crypto ETPs drew close to $6 billion in new money in the week that ended Friday, the biggest weekly inflow on ￰1￱ led the move, taking in $3.6 billion alone as traders and funds piled into BTC ￰2￱ Dominates The Week’s Inflows Reports have disclosed that the latest total beat the prior high of $4.4 billion by about 35%. The week’s gains were not evenly ￰3￱ earlier records had been split more between Bitcoin and Ether, this time Bitcoin funds attracted the lion’s ￰4￱ ETPs still registered strong interest, adding $1.48 billion and bringing year-to-date inflows for Ether to roughly $13.7 ￰5￱ ETPs pulled in $706.5 million, and XRP products saw $219 ￰6￱ figures show that investors are putting fresh capital into a range of crypto products, even as BTC takes the ￰7￱ Headlines Drove Fresh Buying Based on reports, traders pointed to a mix of macro events that likely pushed allocations into crypto.

A recent cut to interest rates by the Fed, weaker-than-expected employment numbers, and concerns about a US government shutdown were all cited by market watchers as ￰8￱ investors treated crypto as an alternative play while political and economic worries ￰9￱ reacted ￰10￱ climbed above $125,000 during the week, a move that pushed total crypto assets under management past $250 billion, reaching a little over $254 ￰11￱ Readings And Analyst Targets Add Fuel According to market analysts and on-chain data observers, the supply of Bitcoin on exchanges has dropped to levels not seen in six ￰12￱ trend is often read as holders choosing to keep coins off market platforms, which can reduce selling ￰13￱ long as Bitcoin $BTC holds above $117,650, the Pricing Bands point to $139,800 ￰14￱ — Ali (@ali_charts) October 4, 2025 Glassnode’s pricing bands were used by some analysts to argue that Bitcoin was holding a key support area and that upside toward $139,800 was possible if that support stayed ￰15￱ Reading: 2%–4% In Crypto?

Morgan Stanley Thinks That’s The Smart Move Now Another forecast mentioned a lower time horizon at around $135,000. These targets were used in the market commentary, and they helped shape market expectations during the move ￰16￱ flows, too, indicated a clear bias: investors were generally ￰17￱ James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, describes, buyers did not even turn to short investment products at price ￰18￱ this behavior does not reflect an intent to hedge against the uptick, then it reflects confidence that the asset continues to ￰19￱ image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView