American spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) experienced $120.2 million in net exits on Wednesday, pushing total redemptions across the first pair of trading days for this holiday-shortened week to $166.8 million, based on figures from Farside Investors.
The ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) paced Wednesday’s capital withdrawals by dropping $78 million, with Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) shedding $27.2 million and BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) losing $19.5 million. Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) stood as the sole fund to register positive flows, pulling in $4.5 million.
Wednesday’s capital exits came on the heels of $46.6 million in net withdrawals on Tuesday, representing the asset class’s initial back-to-back days of outflows since a three-session streak concluded on August 14. Over these two days, GBTC dropped $92.7 million, whereas ARKB and IBIT posted net redemptions of $69.9 million and $8.8 million respectively.
This two-day correction wiped out roughly 4.4% of the $3.8 billion gathered during the products’ most robust three-week period of 2026. Bitcoin ETFs have accumulated around $55 billion in total net inflows since inception, while their combined net activity for 2026 indicates approximately $1.07 billion in outflows, per Farside Investors.
Ether and Solana ETFs bounce back to inflows
In the meantime, US spot Ether ETFs gathered $34.7 million on Wednesday after registering $24.3 million in redemptions on Tuesday, leaving these vehicles with $10.4 million in net weekly inflows.
BlackRock’s ETHB led Wednesday’s Ether ETF additions with $22.9 million, followed by its sister product ETHA at $9.7 million. The 21Shares TETH vehicle secured $2.1 million, whereas the remaining Ether funds documented zero net activity.
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Spot Solana ETFs similarly recovered from Tuesday’s exit of roughly $700,000 by pulling in $11.2 million on Wednesday, which lifted their two-day aggregate to $10.5 million in net inflows. Every dollar of Wednesday’s additions went to Bitwise’s BSOL.
Hyperliquid ETFs posted net exits for a second consecutive session, shedding $5.3 million on Wednesday following Tuesday’s $13 million in withdrawals, bringing the weekly negative total to $18.3 million.
These mixed fund movements arrived as Bitcoin changed hands near $78,000 on Thursday, easing down from about $79,700 recorded when the previous three-week inflow data was published. Ether traded close to $2,470 and Solana hovered around $101, according to CoinGecko.
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