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BlackRock\u2019s spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $3.5 billion net decrease from capital-share transactions in the second quarter, reversing a $13.9 billion increase a year earlier, according to new SEC filings.<\/p>\n
The $17.4 billion year-over-year swing measures trust-level share creation and redemption activity.<\/p>\n
The Aug. 6 filings for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) and iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) use the capital-share line for contributions tied to issued shares less distributions tied to redeemed shares. It is separate from price-driven changes in the trusts\u2019 net assets and investors\u2019 individual profits or losses.<\/p>\n
IBIT recorded $4.3 billion of contributions for shares issued and $7.2 billion of distributions for shares redeemed during the three months ended June 30. The difference produced a $2.9 billion net decrease.<\/p>\n
ETHA recorded $943.3 million in contributions and $1.5 billion in distributions, resulting in a $583.4 million decrease.<\/p>\n
The 2025 IBIT filing and 2025 ETHA filing show the combined $13.9 billion prior-year increase, creating a $3.5 billion decrease against this year.<\/p>\n
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BlackRock\u2019s IBIT accounted for 90% of a $225 million Bitcoin ETF reversal after a seven-day buying streak<\/h3>\n
The reversal erased 22.5% of the preceding $999.3 million inflow streak, while Bitcoin ended the session below $65,000.<\/p>\n
IBIT\u2019s operations reduced net assets by over $7 billion during the second quarter, while ETHA\u2019s reduced them by $1.5 billion. Those totals include net realized losses and unrealized depreciation at the trust level.<\/p>\nBlackRock\u2019s IBIT and ETHA shifted from a $13.9 billion capital-share increase in Q2 2025 to a $3.5 billion decrease in Q2 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The activity tables placed 106,148 BTC and 770,839 ETH in rows labeled as assets sold for share redemptions. The footnotes say those rows include in-kind distributions valued at $3.85 billion of Bitcoin and $904 million of Ethereum, without disclosing the unit-level split.<\/p>\n
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The full token quantities cannot be treated as wholly open-market sales, and the filings do not identify who initiated the underlying share redemptions.<\/p>\n
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Three August sessions offer a limited counterweight<\/h2>\n
As of Aug. 6, Farside Investors\u2019 latest completed Bitcoin ETF row showed a $196.8 million IBIT inflow on Aug. 5, while its Ethereum ETF table showed $50.3 million for ETHA. Across Aug. 3-5, IBIT captured $478.5 million in inflows, and ETHA drew $83.8 million.<\/p>\n
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As a nominal scale marker only, $562.3 million equals 15.9% of $3.5 billion. If August sustains the same $187.4 million combined daily average, it would take about 19 trading sessions for BlackRock funds to accumulate a similar amount.<\/p>\n
That shows why persistence over weeks is the more meaningful test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
BlackRock\u2019s spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $3.5 billion net decrease from capital-share transactions in the second quarter, reversing a $13.9 billion increase a year earlier, according to new SEC filings. The $17.4 billion year-over-year swing measures trust-level share creation and redemption activity. The Aug. 6 filings for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[277,91,280,487,223,285,6069,62,643,601,1165,31,4091,4514,912,742],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethereum","tag-billion","tag-bitcoin","tag-blackrock","tag-blackrocks","tag-boom","tag-btc","tag-creation","tag-crypto","tag-etfs","tag-eth","tag-ether","tag-ethereum","tag-redemptions","tag-shed","tag-turns","tag-years"],"yoast_head":"\n
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