BlackRock's Bitcoin Spot ETF Sees Inflows Despite Negative Year-to-Date Returns

2025/12/21 13:35 (Updated 2025/12/21 18:00)

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BlackRock's Bitcoin Spot ETF Sees Inflows Despite Negative Year-to-Date Returns

Year-to-Date Inflows Surpass 4 Trillion Yen

In 2025, BlackRock's cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETF, 'IBIT', ranked sixth in terms of year-to-date inflow amounts. However, its year-to-date returns were negative. Bloomberg's ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, highlighted on the 20th that among the top 25 ETFs by inflows, IBIT was the only one to post a negative return of -9.6%. Balchunas views these results optimistically, commenting as follows: 'The real point is that IBIT has...'

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