Spot Bitcoin ETFs see $443M in net outflows as Ether funds bleed too

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $442.62 million in net outflows, while spot Ethereum ETFs gave up $224.96 million over the same stretch. The outflows landed during the week of October 19 to 23, 2026, a period of increased market volatility. One bad Thursday did most of the damage The worst of it came on October 22. Bitcoin ETFs saw a single-day outflow of about $635.5 million, the largest since June 2026. That one session largely wiped out the gains the funds had collected earlier in the week. Ethereum ETFs told a different story. Their $224.96 million in outflows was not a one-off spike. It extended a run of weekly outflows that has stretched across multiple weeks. The big players, and the big picture BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) sat at the center of the action. It led the category in both inflows and outflows during the period. Fidelity was also among the key issuers seeing fluctuating participation. IBIT has pulled in approximately $65 to $66 billion in net inflows since it launched. Grayscale’s GBTC sits on the opposite end of the ledger. It has recorded around $28 billion in cumulative outflows. Total assets in spot Bitcoin ETFs reached approximately $104 to $105 bil...