Per crypto investment and research firm CoinShares data, the inflows into cryptoasset-backed funds last week were the largest seen so far this year, led by almost USD 300m that flowed into BTC funds. However, due to outflows of nearly USD 27m from ethereum (ETH) funds and outflows of USD 5.3m from solana (SOL) funds, the net inflows for the week ended at USD 274.2m. A week earlier, BTC inflows reached USD 45m, while ETH saw outflows of almost USD 13m.
The BTC inflows are “a strong signal” that investors saw the collapse of terraUSD (UST) and the Terra network’s native LUNA token as a buying opportunity, analysts at CoinShares wrote. The strong inflows were also described as a flight to “relative safety” within the crypto ecosystem. In the past week, BTC dropped 12%, while other coins from the top 10 list dived 16%-28%. Still, some capital did find its way to so-called multi-asset investment products, with USD 8.6m in inflows.
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