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October 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Take In $21.1 Million on Oct. 9 After Two Straight Days of Outflows
Since the start of October, spot Bitcoin ETF demand has swung between heavy selling and modest buying, and Friday, Oct. 9, produced a small green print.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in a combined $21.13 million that day, according to SoSoValue data. That followed a net outflow of about $244 million on Thursday, Oct. 8.
Who bought and who sold
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) brought in $22.38 million, more than the entire net total. VanEck's HODL added $2.33 million. Fidelity's FBTC lost $3.58 million.
Grayscale's GBTC and BTC, Bitwise's BITB and ARK 21Shares' ARKB recorded no net flows, SoSoValue data show.
Farside Investors, which tracks IBIT separately, also logged a $22.4 million inflow for the fund on Oct. 9.
The two days before
Thursday's exit was led by Fidelity's FBTC, which shed $197.1 million. ARKB lost $20.3 million, BITB $17.7 million, GBTC $8.2 million and IBIT $5.5 million, per SoSoValue.
Over the most recent five trading days, spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $510.1 million, according to SoSoValue figures. Farside data show IBIT alone had a $207.7 million outflow on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The fund had pulled in $195.6 million during the first week of October, so Friday's inflow is small against recent swings.
The scale of the funds
Total net assets across US spot Bitcoin ETFs stood at $105.84 billion on Friday, equal to 6.38% of Bitcoin's market value, per SoSoValue. Cumulative net inflows since launch are $57.11 billion. Trading volume across the funds hit $1.44 billion.
IBIT holds $66.3 billion in net assets, the most of any product, and its cumulative net inflow is $65.73 billion. Coinbase Prime is the custodian for its coins.
Bitcoin traded around $82,592 on Saturday morning, up 0.4% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. It has recently stayed in a band between roughly $78,700 and $85,000.
Ether funds still losing money
Bitcoin's tiny inflow came as US spot Ether ETFs kept losing money. SoSoValue figures put Friday's outflow at $56.10 million, all from BlackRock's ETHA, and show no inflow day for Ether funds so far in October. A separate tally puts the day's outflow at $72.5 million, with ETHA at $71.1 million, and counts eight straight days of net withdrawals. The two tallies differ on the size of the exit, not its direction.
Solana ETFs logged a fifth straight day of outflows, and XRP funds recorded zero net flow for a third day this month, according to the SoSoValue data.
Why IBIT keeps drawing money
In July 2026, BlackRock cut the minimum for in-kind Bitcoin-to-IBIT conversions from $25 million to $1 million. Those conversions let investors hand over coins directly for fund shares instead of selling first. The program has processed more than $5 billion in swaps.
BlackRock's U.S. head of equity ETFs, Jay Jacobs, has said the lower thresholds "opened the floodgates" for investors moving direct Bitcoin holdings into ETF structures.
The flow data also show how concentrated the market is. On Friday one product produced the entire net inflow, and one product accounted for most of Thursday's exit.
U.S. markets are closed for the weekend. The next daily flow figures, covering Monday, Oct. 12, will show whether Friday's inflow was the start of a rebound or a pause inside a month of uneven demand.
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