Institutional investment flows out of ETH and into competing L1 altcoins

Institutional investment flows out of ETH and into competing L1 altcoins

Analysis from CoinShares shows investors favored smaller altcoins last week as capital outflows for Ethereum hit $17 million. Institutional investors have shifted their attention from Ethereum (ETH) to competing Layer 1 blockchains of late, with capital inflows for altcoin investment products increasing last week whilst Ether products posted outflows for the third week in a row.Data from CoinShares’ latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report shows that investors last week (ending April 22) loaded up on $3.5 million worth of Avalanche (AVAX), Solana (SOL), Terra (LUNA) and Algorand (ALGO) funds....


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