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Bitcoin ETF First Month Is in the Books: How It Went and What Comes Next

Excitement was high about one month ago, when TradFi once again got the regulatory go-ahead to launch an entirely new investment vehicle for crypto. The process of bringing to the U.S. market a spot bitcoin ETF took more than a decade, but on Jan. 11, 10 such products finally began trading. It’s been a hell of a ride since.

Bitcoin ETFs (Ex-GBTC) Now Hold More BTC Than MicroStrategy

The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale’s GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings yesterday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, hold more of the crypto than MicroStrategy (MSTR), whose total stood at 190,000 as of the end of January.

Bitcoin ETF Flows Show Negative Trend For First Time Since Launch

The group of recently launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are seeing combined negative flows for the first time since they opened for trade on Jan. 11 as money moving into funds like BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC has failed to keep pace with the exits from Grayscale’s GBTC.

Spot Ether ETF Applications Decisions Delayed by SEC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission delayed an application by Grayscale Investments to convert its Ethereum trust product into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), a day after pushing back a decision on an application from BlackRock to launch an ether ETF.