Institutional divestment signals? Spot ETF outflows of nearly $4.6 billion from November to December

2026-01-02 07:50:11

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【ChainNews】The ETF market has been a bit cold in the past two months. From November to December, net outflows from listed spot ETFs totaled $4.57 billion, with Ethereum ETFs alone experiencing outflows of over $2 billion. During the same period, Bitcoin dropped 20%, reflecting a phenomenon—interest among institutional investors is clearly waning.

This round of outflows is relatively rare in history. From a data perspective, the pace of large institutions withdrawing from the crypto market is accelerating. BTC and ETH, as the two largest assets by market cap, should be the most favored allocations by institutions, but they still couldn’t withstand this wave of reduction.

Possible reasons include macro environmental changes, pessimistic expectations about short-term market trends, or simply profit-taking. Regardless, this data indicates that institutional investors are re-evaluating their crypto allocation strategies.

ETH2.35%

BTC1.79%

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GasSavingMaster

· 5h ago

The institutions have run away, retail investors still have to hold on, hilarious

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GasOptimizer

· 5h ago

The institution ran away, and we're retail investors still here taking the bait.

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BlockDetective

· 5h ago

Institutions are really running away, this wave is quite fierce --- 45 billion run away, and over on ETH side it's even more intense, directly losing 2 billion, how are there still people daring to buy the dip --- To put it simply, institutions are bearish, taking profits and closing positions—this reason is too superficial --- Rare in history? It feels like it will be even more rare later --- Wait, is this an opportunity for retail investors to buy the dip? --- Macroeconomic changes + profit-taking, these two combined are indeed quite brutal --- BTC drops 20% and still spends so much money, institutions are really scared --- For the flow out data, we need to see if it will flow back later

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