Upcoming ETH Merge Sees Institutional Investor Sentiment Turn Positive
Ethereum (ETH) has been receiving more attention recently from professional investors. The general sentiment surrounding the token seems to be improving even amid the crypto bear market. The prevailing downward trend had brought a sinking wave to many prominent digital assets within the past few months. Some of them have lost more than half their values since 2022. Most crypto assets have been progressively dropping in value within the week, and ETH is no exception. The price of the token also plummeted on Wednesday trades. However, Ether sees a glimpse of light from the end of the tunnel.....
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"Greater clarity" around the Merge has driven institutional inflows into Ethereum products, according to a CoinShares report. Institutional investors are piling into Ether-based digital asset funds, which have recorded seven straight weeks of positive inflows, according to the latest CoinShares report. Said inflows reached $16.3 million last week, adding to a total of $159 million in inflows over the last seven weeks.CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill on Aug. 8 said the rise in market sentiment for Ethereum-focused products is largely due to “greater clarity” relating to the....
Institutional investor interest in bitcoin has mainly been fluctuating in the last month. As the market has gone through the different phases of bull and bear market, so have the sentiment of investors gone through positive and negative. For the past week, though, it seems the latter had eventually won through as outflows had rocked bitcoin, even at a time when the digital asset had done a relatively good job of holding above $20,000. Bitcoin Sees $21 Million In Outflows The most recent report from CoinShares regarding the investments of institutional investors shows a unique perspective....
CoinShares' head of research James Butterfill said the outflows come despite "the improved certainty of the Merge." Institutional investors may be wavering ahead of the Ethereum Merge, with Ether-based digital asset investment products seeing an outflow of $61.6 million, signaling concerns about the success of the upgrade. In its digital asset fund flows weekly report, fund manager CoinShares reported that Ether-based investment products made up for the majority of total outflows over the Sept. 5-11 week — leading to the market’s fifth consecutive week of outflows.Report author James....
The crypto market has been able to recover above $1 trillion once more after the market rally that was triggered by the Ethereum Merge. This has resulted in more positive market sentiment from investors, causing the Fear & Greed Index to move clear of the extreme fear territory. Such spikes in sentiment can often spell positive news for the digital assets in the space. Index Moves Into Fear Now, even with the positive movement in sentiment, the crypto Fear & Greed Index continues to remain in the fear territory. However, it is a welcome development from last week’s close of 22. With a....
Institutional investors had been showing bearish sentiment towards Ethereum for the longest time. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, which had initially caught their attention, was not doing as well as expected, and the outflows that followed were massive. However, it looks like sentiment among these large investors is beginning to turn positive as Ethereum has begun to record inflows. Ethereum Inflows Balloons Over the last several weeks, Ethereum inflows have been ramping up. Although they were nowhere near the volumes that had been recorded during the bull market, it had....