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Ethereum (ETH) ETFs Post $85.3 Million Daily Outflow, Led by BlackRock's ETHA

US spot ETFs holding Ethereum (ETH) recorded $85.3 million in net outflows on Tuesday, November 3, and the creation and redemption disclosures behind the…

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November 4, 2026, 05:50 AM UTC4 min read
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  • US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $85.3 million in net outflows on November 3.
  • BlackRock's ETHA lost $74.4 million that day, the largest single outflow.
  • Seven straight sessions since October 26 have removed $656.4 million from the funds.
  • October net outflows reached $1.607 billion against September net inflows of $831.3 million.

US spot ETFs holding Ethereum (ETH) recorded $85.3 million in net outflows on Tuesday, November 3, and the creation and redemption disclosures behind the print show that not one product on the register took in a dollar that day. The daily figure sits against a standing pile of $12.09 billion in cumulative net inflows, built since the funds went live in July 2024, so a session of this size removes roughly 0.7% of what investors have put in over more than two years. BlackRock's ETHA was the heaviest item, with $74.4 million leaving the fund, close to nine-tenths of the day's total, and Grayscale's Ethereum trust lost another $10.9 million. Fidelity's FETH, the second-largest product with $2.44 billion of accumulated intake, closed flat, as did BlackRock's ETHB, Bitwise's ETHW, VanEck's ETHV, Franklin Templeton's EZET, Morgan Stanley's MSSE, 21Shares' TETH and Invesco Galaxy's QETH. A $74.4 million exit from one manager's product is itself nearly the whole day's net figure, a concentration that leaves the sector print hostage to a single redemption desk. Ethereum (ETH) is the largest altcoin by market value and these vehicles are its main regulated institutional channel, so redemption days of this scale put coins back into market hands rather than merely registering a mood. The Ethereum market has so far taken the selling in stride: the Ethereum price sits near $2,302 in early Wednesday trading, about 2.3% higher across the past 24 hours. These flows come from daily creation and redemption disclosures, the primary record of ETF demand, where an outflow means authorized participants returned shares and the issuer moved ether out of the fund.

Tuesday's print was the seventh consecutive session of redemptions, a run that opened on Monday, October 26 and has now stripped $656.4 million from the funds. Five trading days inside that stretch, October 28 through November 3, produced $507.6 million, close to six times Tuesday's single-day figure. The five-day split by issuer, drawn from the same daily disclosures, reads as follows:

  • BlackRock ETHA: minus $405.8 million
  • Grayscale ETH: minus $47.0 million
  • BlackRock ETHB: minus $39.7 million
  • Grayscale ETHE: minus $37.0 million
  • Fidelity FETH: plus $18.4 million
  • Morgan Stanley MSSE: plus $3.5 million

Only two of the eleven products on the register, FETH and MSSE, took in money over the five days, and their combined $21.9 million is a fraction of ETHA's five-day exit. The Grayscale pairing remains the structural oddity: the newer trust has added $1.99 billion since listing while ETHE, the legacy vehicle, has surrendered $5.54 billion, a ledger that long predates the current run. Concentration cuts both ways. ETHA's cumulative $11.66 billion is about 96% of the sector total, and no other product comes close; Fidelity's FETH is next at $2.44 billion. October as a whole closed with $1.607 billion in net outflows, nearly double September's $831.3 million of net inflows, a monthly swing from accumulation to distribution inside four weeks. Ether inside these funds sits unstaked: it earns none of the yield available through staking, the proof of stake validation mechanism the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade introduced, which is one reason yield-seeking capital has historically sat in other vehicles. Whatever the recent direction, $12.09 billion of cumulative intake keeps the funds the dominant institutional footprint in ether, the same lens behind our desk's scoring of Ethereum (ETH) at 9.7 out of 10 against SEC decentralization criteria.

Two Levels Frame the Rebound

Ether's recovery into Wednesday has carried the price back toward the strongest overhead cluster in our live Ethereum technical analysis: resistance at $2,327 scores 100 out of 100 on the composite, and the first support below the market at $2,204 also scores 100 out of 100, leaving the market in a narrow band between two fully loaded levels. Derivatives positioning shows no stress behind the flow story: open interest stands at $9.54 billion and perp funding at 0.0051%, effectively neutral, so the fund redemptions have not forced a leveraged unwind. Measured against the standing pile, the seven-session run has shifted $656.4 million, about 5% of the $12.09 billion the products have collected since July 2024, a trimming of the position rather than its abandonment; a decisive break of the $2,204 floor, rather than the flow print alone, is what would change that picture.

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