Morning Edition · Thursday, July 16, 2026Published at 1:28 AM EDT · New York
Ether Outpaces Bitcoin as Exchange-Traded Fund Inflows Return, Led Almost Entirely by BlackRock
Spot bitcoin, ether and Hyperliquid funds took in net money on July 15 while Solana funds lost money, and the Securities and Exchange Commission quadrupled the options limit on BlackRock's bitcoin fund.
Ether has outpaced bitcoin over the past several sessions as money returned to United States spot exchange-traded funds, and nearly all of the ether inflow came from BlackRock's fund, CoinDesk reported. This was not a broad rally. Bitcoin r…
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Spot-ETF Flows Set the Marginal Crypto Price
Creation and redemption in spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds have become the marginal price-setting flow for the two largest crypto assets, so allocation decisions at a small number of asset managers transmit macro conditions into crypto faster than on-chain fundamentals do.
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