IBIT Records $269M Single-Day Inflow, Highest in Five Weeks
The iShares Bitcoin Trust from BlackRock recorded inflows approaching $270 million on Thursday, representing the product's strongest performance in over a month.
A total of $269.3 million flowed into the iShares Bitcoin Trust managed by BlackRock on Thursday, marking the fund's strongest single-day performance since the beginning of March, approximately when tensions from the US-Iran conflict began escalating significantly.
These substantial inflows contributed to reversing a two-day streak of net outflows across the dozen US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which collectively registered net inflows totaling $358.1 million.
Tracking Bitcoin ETF inflows represents one method for measuring both retail and institutional appetite for Bitcoin exposure.
The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) captured the runner-up position with $53.3 million in inflows, whereas the recently launched Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) ranked as the third-largest contributor, pulling in $14.9 million during its second trading session, based on figures from Farside Investors.
Additional contributions came from the Bitcoin ETFs managed by Bitwise and ARK 21Shares, which attracted $11.7 million and $4.8 million in inflows respectively, whereas the Bitcoin offerings from Franklin Templeton and VanEck each registered approximately $2 million.
Year-to-date, BlackRock's IBIT has accumulated $1.5 billion in net inflows, demonstrating resilience amid a widespread crypto market downturn that has witnessed Bitcoin's value decline from its 2026 peak of $97,000 down to $72,100 as of this writing.
Robert Mitchnick, who leads digital assets at BlackRock, stated in March that those investing in BlackRock's IBIT have demonstrated themselves to be "disproportionately long-term buy and hold" investors — maintaining their positions even during periods of intense selling pressure in other areas of the Bitcoin ecosystem.
In a separate development, Amy Oldenburg, Morgan Stanley's digital asset head, remarked during a Thursday interview with Bloomberg that MSBT represented the institutional bank's most successful ETF launch in its history.
This is just the first of a long roadmap of new products on the asset management side.
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Morgan Stanley has additionally submitted filings to introduce a staked Ether (ETH) ETF and Solana (SOL) ETF to the market.
Following this latest influx of capital, the US spot Bitcoin ETFs are approaching a return to positive territory for year-to-date net inflows.
At the conclusion of 2025, the Bitcoin ETFs stood at $56.59 billion in net inflows and presently sit at $56.51 billion, indicating they need just $80 million more to recover to their inflow levels from the beginning of the year.