
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF barely beat the S&P 500 after putting investors through a 53% crash
IBIT narrowly outperformed VOO since 2024, even after Bitcoin’s brutal October-to-July downturn.
Follow crypto ETF news, approvals, inflows, issuers, and market reactions across spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, and digital asset funds.

Bitcoin funds lost $201.9 million Friday while rival crypto ETFs still attracted fresh capital.

ETF inflows and larger Treasury buybacks can cushion volatility, but neither substitutes for disinflation.

Wall Street has turned the humble ETF into a wrapper for almost any financial bet imaginable.

Billions of dollars can appear inside a crypto ETF without investors buying a single new coin on launch day.

A new Tier 2 framework lowered qualifying gates to $25 billion in AUM and 5 million monthly options sides, bringing IBIT back during Q3.

IBIT single-handedly kept Aug. 27 flows above water as Fidelity and Grayscale lost more than $110 million.



