Summer doldrums? Crypto volumes are down 55%, according to CoinShares
Bitcoin investment products, which include ETFs, ETPs and Grayscale’s GBTC, saw a third consecutive week of outflows. Crypto investment products registered minor weekly outflows last week as volumes plunged to their second-lowest levels of the year, signaling weak demand among institutional investors during the tail end of summer.Outflows from digital asset investment products totaled $8.7 million in the week ending Sunday, CoinShares reported Monday. Bitcoin (BTC) investment products saw a third consecutive week of outflows totaling $15.3 million. Funds with direct exposure to Solana....
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Bitcoin’s seven-day average trading volumes have continued to remain low, as the seven-day average trading volumes only reaching $3 billion. This comes on the heels of the digital asset seeing declining volatility in the market. The bitcoin trading market had seen a marked shift in trends as the average trading volumes remain at yearly lows. This trend follows the trend seen in trading volumes from last summer. Bitcoin volume had also remained low last summer, and this summer so far has followed the same trend. Bitcoin trading volumes had seen a small recovery after a dip in June....
CoinShares FTX Physical Staked Solana will be listed on Germany’s major digital market Xetra and is the fourth ETP rolled out by CoinShares this year. CoinShares, one of the largest crypto investment firms in Europe, and FTX crypto exchange have united forces to launch a new physically-backed Solana (SOL) exchange-traded product (ETP).The new product, titled CoinShares FTX Physical Staked Solana, is launching with 1 million SOL in seed capital, allowing investors to get 3% in staking rewards, CoinShares officially announced on Wednesday. The new cryptocurrency ETP is the first initiative....
We are now in the slowest trading period of the year for both the legacy and cryptocurrency markets, which means volatility and volume should remain light until after the Labor Day weekend in the US. Bitcoin has once again flatlined around the $570 level as the summer doldrums roll on. Traditionally the late August timeframe is the slowest time of the year for the financial markets considering it is the most popular time of year for pre-“back to school” vacationing. Up until recently this phenomenon has avoided the small crypto markets due to a lack of traditional players, although over....
Assets under management for institutional funds have hit a record high of $59 billion. According to digital asset investment manager CoinShares, the first quarter of 2021 has hit a new record for institutional crypto product inflows.As reported in the April 6 CoinShares Fund Flows Weekly bulletin, Q1 of this year hit a new record with $4.5 billion in inflows compared with $3.9 billion in the final quarter of 2020.It added that inflows for the past week recorded, ending on April 2, totaled $106 million helping push the total for the three-month period 11% higher than the previous quarter.....
Deutsche Boerse Xetra is listing CoinShares physical Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin ETPs. European digital asset manager CoinShares is expanding the reach of its physically backed exchange-traded product (ETP) portfolio with a new listing in Germany.According to an announcement on Monday, CoinShares Physical Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC) ETPs have cross-listed on major German exchange Deutsche Boerse Xetra.The digital asset manager started the year by launching a Bitcoin ETP named CoinShares Physical Bitcoin (BITC) in January. Listed on Switzerland’s SIX Swiss Exchange, each....