Bitcoin (BTC) Leads Crypto Inflows With $58.38M in Five Hours

Update 23:03 UTC: Fidelity's FBTC took the heaviest withdrawals of the two red weeks, $440.5 million in total, including $197.1 million on a single day, and ARK Invest and 21Shares' ARKB followed with $207.2 million out.

Bitcoin Takes the Bulk of Sunday Inflows

Almost all of the fresh capital that entered the crypto market on Sunday morning chose a single destination: Bitcoin (BTC). Aggregate flow tracking compiled by CryptoMeter recorded $58.38 million of coin inflows into Bitcoin over the five hours to 05:30 UTC on 2026-10-18, a sum that dwarfed every other asset in the tracker's major-coin table, where nothing else came close to $5 million. The tracker reads capital moving into and out of individual assets across venues, so the figure captures deployed money rather than idle balances. The Bitcoin (BTC) price read $81,725 at the same moment, up 0.2% over 24 hours, so the money arrived as steady accumulation pressure rather than a breakout bid. Flat price action against a dominant inflow print is the combination traders watch for: it points to buying that has not yet needed to chase. The funding behind the print came through two channels. Fiat and cash-like money worth $13.15 million in US dollars, $4.26 million in Brazilian reais and $680,000 in Korean won entered the market inside the window, while stablecoins already parked on the sidelines were put to work: $56.44 million of USDT and $3.65 million of USDC were spread across multiple crypto assets. Once that cash reached coin level, the skew sharpened rather than softened. Ethereum (ETH) took $4.76 million, a distant second, followed by Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), the tokenized form of the asset used across Bitcoin DeFi, at $3.44 million, in effect the same trade expressed on another rail. NEAR drew $3.16 million, Hyperliquid (HYPE) $2.86 million and Monero (XMR) $1.75 million, and nothing further crossed $2 million. The totals read as aggregate portfolio flows rather than the footprint of a single crypto whale moving a position between wallets. For readers following the asset beyond one window, COINOTAG's Bitcoin coverage keeps these flow prints next to the derivatives picture below.

Price holds an uptrend around that print on our own level-scoring map. Support at $81,481 is the strongest reading we track at 94/100, and resistance at $84,548 scores 88/100, which leaves the spot price of $82,834 in a tight band between the two. Derivatives positioning leans long: the perp funding rate runs at 0.0070% and the long/short account ratio stands at 1.50, with 60.1% of accounts long. Sentiment sits in greedy territory at 59/100, and a daily close above $84,548 would confirm a push toward the $86,809 resistance; a rejection there hands the initiative back to $81,481. The full ladder is charted in our Bitcoin technical analysis (as of 10:06 UTC).

Zcash Tops the Outflow Column

The wider fund picture frames the same coin differently. Over the prior full trading week, US spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $228.58 million of net outflows as the asset fell from above $84,000 to a monthly low just under $80,000, with a $261.46 million exit on Wednesday, a $175.62 million inflow on Tuesday, and smaller moves of $65.40 million out on Monday, $5.06 million in on Thursday and $82.39 million out on Friday. That was milder than the previous week's $680 million-plus bleed after the rejection at $87,000, and total net cumulative fund inflows have slipped from nearly $57.8 billion on October 2 to $56.88 billion by October 16, so Sunday's $58.38 million on-chain-style print marks a turn back toward buying after a fortnight of fund-led selling.

The issuer split behind those fund flows is now on record. Fidelity's FBTC took the heaviest withdrawals of the two red weeks, $440.5 million in total, including $197.1 million on a single day, and ARK Invest and 21Shares' ARKB followed with $207.2 million out. BlackRock's IBIT lost $165.4 million in the latest week alone, yet its early-month inflows keep it in surplus for October at $189.5 million. Across the month the net drain has widened to roughly $617 million, trimming total net assets to $104.29 billion from $107.98 billion at the end of September. The cumulative net inflow tally stands at $56.88 billion.

The exit side of the ledger was thinner and more scattered. Zcash (ZEC) led it with $5.53 million of outflows over the same five hours, ahead of Ethereum at $3.30 million, Solana (SOL) at $1.38 million, Worldcoin (WLD) at $1.09 million and Bitcoin (BTC) itself at $880,000. Ethereum is the only asset with a genuine two-way print, $4.76 million in against $3.30 million out, a spread that nets close to flat and shows the rotation passed through it rather than out of it. Money that left coins did not all leave the market: $6.79 million regrouped into USDT and $340,000 into USDC, with the stablecoins acting as the parking spot for exiting capital. A cash-out leg ran in parallel, converting $4.83 million back to dollars, $4.17 million to Korean won and $440,000 to Turkish lira. The won line points both ways at once, $680,000 in and $4.17 million out, and it lands on a market we have followed closely: an earlier read on the Kimchi premium showed Bitcoin trading 1.42% higher on Korea's four major exchanges, while Upbit trading volume had already fallen 25.69% in a single day. Sunday's numbers add a net cashing-out tilt to that local picture. The comparison has edges worth naming: these figures cover one five-hour slice of a Sunday, not a full daily tally, and the altcoin market side of the table is thin enough that the print measures where quiet weekend money parked, not a verdict on the week. With sentiment neutral at 53/100 on our Fear and Greed Index and Bitcoin at 68.1% of COINOTAG's tracked universe, a share that describes our own coin set rather than a global dominance figure, the next full weekday session is where the inflow skew gets its real test.