{"id":325192,"date":"2024-06-17T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=325192"},"modified":"2024-06-17T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:08:59","slug":"crypto-markets-trade-lower-as-institutions-offload-millions-in-bitcoin-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-markets-trade-lower-as-institutions-offload-millions-in-bitcoin-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Markets Trade Lower as Institutions Offload Millions in Bitcoin &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Institutional investors sold $600 million worth of digital assets last week.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The cryptocurrency market opened Monday to a small but widespread selloff.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-chip cryptocurrencies like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> (BTC) and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/ethereum\">Ethereum<\/a> (ETH) are down 2% and 2.6% respectively. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/ripple\">XRP<\/a> is the only top-ten token to register positive price action, jumping 5% on the day.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">XRP Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most tokens are down less than 10% with notable exceptions, like ZKsync, which is down 20% after <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/nearly-half-of-airdropped-zksync-tokens-claimed-in-just-two-hours\">airdropping 17.5% of its token<\/a> supply and debuting to a $900 million market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p>According to CoinShares&#8217; latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinshares.com\/volume-187-digital-asset-fund-flows-weekly-report-03a835f3e795\">report<\/a>, last week was the second worst for institutions in 2024. Large entities offloaded $600 million in digital assets, \u201clikely due to a more hawkish-than-expected FOMC meeting, prompting investors to scale back their exposure to fixed-supply assets.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weekly Crypto Asset Flows chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"970.3384615384616\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto\" id='b' style='filter: url(%23b)' src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F6oftkxoa%2Fproduction%2F10b8bcf59d3d64f46f24ff598d944e5c43b15e2d-1300x1314.jpg&amp;w=828&amp;q=100\" \/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Weekly Crypto Asset Flows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week\u2019s bearishness by institutional investors was nearly entirely focused on Bitcoin, wrote James Butterfill, head of research for CoinShares. BTC was the only digital asset that registered outflows, with more than $620 million sold.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum continues its bullish trajectory with a fourth consecutive week of accumulation. Most likely spurred by the inevitable launch of spot Ethereum ETFs, institutions bought $13 million of ETH in the past seven days, bringing the yearly total to $94 million.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller tokens registered negligible outflows and inflows from large entities, with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/solana\">Solana<\/a> seeing $200,000 in outflows \u2013 the only asset other than Bitcoin to see selling.<\/p>\n<h2>Experts Move Forward Launch Date Prediction For ETH ETF<\/h2>\n<p>Ethereum continues to make headlines as the market prepares for an imminent spot ETF <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/regulation\/ethereum-etf-approval-signals-ether-is-a-commodity-not-a-security\">approval<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1801725292404261308\">wrote<\/a> on June 14 that his team moved forward the date for Ethereum\u2019s ETF instrument to be available for trading to July 2. Balchunas had previously predicted July 4, despite SEC Chairman Gary Gensler saying on June 13 that the product <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/markets\/gensler-predicts-ethereum-etfs-approval-by-end-of-summer\">should be live<\/a> by the end of summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Balchunas, the SEC sent potential ETF issuers comments on their S-1 filings at the end of last week. Comments, he wrote, were \u201cpretty light, nothing major\u201d and requested replies in a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecent chance they work to declare them effective the next week and get it off their plate before holiday weekend,\u201d Balchunas added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutional investors sold $600 million worth of digital assets last week. The cryptocurrency market opened Monday to a small but widespread selloff. Blue-chip cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are down 2% and 2.6% respectively. XRP is the only top-ten token to register positive price action, jumping 5% on the day. 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