BlackRock's IBIT Carried All $16.79M of Thursday's Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Inflow

Update 13:00 UTC: A broader four-session reading of the same data puts the Ether side of the ledger in sharper relief: spot Ether ETFs lost a cumulative $250.29 million from Monday through Thursday, nearly twice the $146 million that left the Bitcoin (BTC) funds over the stretch.

IBIT Carried the Whole Inflow

The United States spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs took in a net $5.06 million on Thursday, Oct. 15, SoSoValue data shows, one day after $261.46 million left the same twelve-product lineup on Wednesday. The Bitcoin price now trades near $82,000, up 1.2% over 24 hours, and Thursday marked the first net-positive session since Tuesday. BlackRock's IBIT was the only fund in positive territory, absorbing $16.79 million and lifting its cumulative net intake to $65.64 billion. A net inflow means new share creations outnumbered redemptions for the day, and on Thursday exactly one product managed it. Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC) lost $7.64 million, Invesco Galaxy's BTCO shed $4.09 million, and Fidelity's FBTC, Ark 21Shares' ARKB and Grayscale's GBTC recorded no movement at all. The scale itself stays the caveat: the combined intake equaled roughly 1.9% of the previous day's redemptions, and nothing resembling whale activity appears in the fund-level table. Even IBIT carries a five-day deficit of $71.21 million, so the month's Bitcoin ETF flows, built from daily issuer creation and redemption disclosures, have mostly run the other direction.

October Flows Remain Negative

The wider ledger weighs more than any single session. Over the five trading days from Oct. 9 through Oct. 15, the complex recorded a net $124.91 million in redemptions, with direction alternating daily: inflows on Oct. 9, Oct. 13 and Thursday against outflows on Oct. 12 and Oct. 14, by a CoinGlass-based count. Fidelity's FBTC alone lost $53.2 million across those five sessions, while Morgan Stanley's MSBT added $6.7 million and VanEck's HODL picked up $2.3 million. October through the 15th has produced a cumulative net outflow of $532.31 million, a sharp turn from September's $2.65 billion in net inflows. Since the funds listed in January 2024, cumulative net intake stands near $57 billion, with IBIT's $65.64 billion offset by $27.9 billion out of Grayscale's GBTC. Total net assets of the complex reached $105.71 billion on Thursday, equal to 6.41% of Bitcoin's market cap, on one-day ETF trading volume of $2.28 billion. Ether funds tell a harsher story: spot Ether (ETH) ETFs shed $60.22 million on Thursday, a second straight day of outflows led by BlackRock's ETHA at $44.39 million and Grayscale's ETHE at $18.28 million, while Fidelity's FETH added $2.44 million. Ether products have bled funds on 10 of 11 trading days this month, a cumulative $861.77 million per the Ethereum ETF record. A separate report on cross-border flows, meanwhile, found the United States acting as a net Bitcoin importer, with 53,200 Bitcoin (BTC) in institutional inflow.

SoSoValue's fund-level breakdown adds texture to Thursday's volume picture: of the $2.28 billion traded across the twelve spot Bitcoin ETFs, BlackRock's IBIT alone accounted for $1.80 billion, with Fidelity's FBTC at $237.82 million and Grayscale's GBTC at $83.24 million rounding out the busiest three. On net assets, IBIT leads the complex at $66.21 billion, followed by FBTC at $14.62 billion and GBTC at $10.37 billion. The same reading puts total net assets at $105.71 billion, about 6.41% of Bitcoin's market capitalization, and the lineup's cumulative net intake at $56.96 billion, confirming that Thursday's lone $16.79 million creation left the aggregate barely moved.

A Farside Investors tally of the same session adds a four-day frame to Thursday's modest turn: while Oct. 15 brought in a net $5.06 million, the stretch from Oct. 12 through Oct. 15 still left US spot Bitcoin ETFs a cumulative $146 million in redemptions. The Farside-based count shows the Oct. 13 session pulled in $175.7 million, only for the following day's $261.46 million outflow to wipe it out, and Thursday's intake was too small to offset the damage. The aggregator's breakdown matches the fund-level numbers already on record, with IBIT's $16.79 million creation against $7.64 million from the Mini Trust and $4.09 million from BTCO. The count covers US trading days only and excludes Friday's session, so it offers no read on whether the flow has since held.

A broader four-session reading of the same data puts the Ether side of the ledger in sharper relief: spot Ether ETFs lost a cumulative $250.29 million from Monday through Thursday, nearly twice the $146 million that left the Bitcoin (BTC) funds over the stretch. The Ether sequence ran from an $85.4 million outflow on Monday to a $129.51 million redemption on Wednesday and Thursday's $60.22 million, leaving Tuesday's lone $24.84 million intake looking increasingly isolated in the month's record. On the Bitcoin side, the daily path swung from a $65.4 million Monday outflow to Tuesday's $175.62 million inflow before Wednesday's $261.46 million reversal erased it, and Thursday's $5.06 million only restored a faint positive print.

Price Holds Near $82,000

Spot trading holds Bitcoin at $81,634.01 at the time of writing, a 0.73% loss over 24 hours. COINOTAG's composite scoring, which grades each level out of 100 from the indicators stacked there, puts the strongest support at $81,429.92, rated 87, and the strongest resistance at $84,616.34, rated 89. The relative strength index reads 47.18, the MACD signal is bearish, and the broader trend remains an uptrend. Perpetual funding runs at 0.0054% and the account long/short ratio stands at 1.87, with 65.1% of accounts long against 34.9% short. Reclaiming the $84,616 band is the first test for a fuller recovery, and detailed Bitcoin technical analysis tracks both levels daily (as of 23:38 UTC).

Shorts Pay Up on Binance

The derivatives market leaned the other way through the session. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost noted that Binance's Bitcoin perpetual funding rate slipped to -0.0073%. Funding rates are the periodic payments between perpetual traders that keep contract prices near spot; a negative rate means bearish positions pay to stay open, and Darkfost read the figure as strengthening demand for downside exposure across the broader derivatives market. He connected the caution to United States consumer and producer inflation readings that both came in above forecasts, reviving concern the Federal Reserve could add another rate increase, and to Bitcoin's recent sharp retreat from above $87,000. His levels to watch sit at $80,000 and $74,000, and he argued that concentrated short positioning has often preceded trend reversals rather than extended declines. Separate seven-day data on top-trader positioning shows shorts holding 80% of positions with $48 million in unrealized losses, the same skew from another angle. What Thursday's $5.06 million print cannot establish is whether durable institutional demand, of the kind built through strategic Bitcoin reserve accumulation in earlier cycles, has actually returned; it shows only that a single day's redemptions stopped.