Supply growth explains only part of XRP's 62.5% fall from its 2018 high
XRP trades near $1.33, 62.5% below its January 2018 peak of $3.55, while bitcoin and ether stay far above their 2017 highs. Supply growth of 63% explains a drop to about $2.18, so demand-side factors have to account for the remaining fall.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $261.4 million on Oct. 14 and spot Ether ETFs a further $130 million, Farside Investors data shows. Both assets bled, but the Bitcoin outflow is a small slice of what those funds hold.
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Solana lost about $6.5 billion in a week against a $1.04 million ETF outflow on October 13
Solana fell 9.34% in seven days to about $107 before its October 21 Alpenglow upgrade, according to crypto.news. The one ETF flow it cites, $1.04 million on October 13, is about 0.0017% of market capitalization.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000 on Monday, Decrypt and Bitcoin.com both reported. Decrypt put the odds of an October 28 Fed hike at 19.4% on CME FedWatch, yet spot ETFs took in only $21.13 million on Friday after two days of heavy outflows.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs shed $1.248B in the week to Oct 9, SoSoValue data reported by Cryptopolitan show. XRP funds drew $11.31M, under 1% of that, and relative to fund size the selling sits mostly in Ethereum.
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Thailand's SEC finalized 11 notifications, effective Oct. 16, allowing local Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs and barring most retail clients from foreign ones. No Thai fund has been approved or given a trading date, CryptoSlate reported, so the foreign-product limits arrive first.
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US crypto ETFs shed a net $1.29 billion in the week of Oct. 5-9, crypto.news reported from Farside Investors tables. Every tracked category ended negative, but BlackRock's Ether fund and two Bitcoin funds supplied over four-fifths of the money that left.
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Bitcoin's return above $84,000 coincides with short liquidations worth 0.06% of open interest
Bitcoin traded near $84,025 on Oct. 12, up 1.3% in 24 hours, as shorts made up $39.61 million of $46.68 million in liquidations, per CoinGlass. ETF inflows on Oct. 9 replaced only 2.9% of the Oct. 7-8 outflows, and the seven-day loss of about 3.3% is still open.
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Small tokens outrun majors on order books that have kept thinning since the October 2025 crash
Net outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs reached $681 million last week, according to SoSoValue, their highest since June. Small tokens rallied through it, and CoinDesk research says their order books are still thinning.
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XRP ETF investors have put in $230 million more than their funds now hold
US spot XRP ETFs took in a net $11.31 million last week, their 12th straight weekly inflow, according to Sosovalue data. Cumulative inflows of about $1.8 billion now exceed the $1.57 billion the funds hold.
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Bitcoin sits 2.4% above $82,000 support after its biggest ETF outflow week since June
Bitcoin traded near $84,050 on Monday after U.S. spot ETFs shed $681 million last week, the largest weekly outflow since June. That leaves it about 2.4% above the $82,000 support analysts name, with the Oct. 14 U.S. inflation data due next.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $21.13 million on October 9 as ether funds lost $56.10 million, a ninth straight day of outflows. Netted together, about $35 million left the two groups, so the bitcoin rebound is too small to show institutions coming back.
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US bitcoin and ether ETFs shed about $965 million in two sessions as ether funds logged an eighth straight day of redemptions. Most of Thursday's selling sat in Fidelity's FBTC and BlackRock's ETHA, consistent with a few large holders trimming positions.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a net $484.9 million on Oct. 7, their largest one-day outflow since June, Farside Investors data show. At about $82,700, Bitcoin now trades inside the band where Glassnode maps its nearest liquidation cluster, so the next move depends on how leverage is stacked there.
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Outside cash accounts for about a fifth of Grayscale's $1 billion Zcash fund
Grayscale's Zcash fund passed $1 billion in assets within a month of listing, though only about $200 million of that is cash from outside investors. Most of the rest is coins carried over from its 2017 trust and a ZEC price that roughly doubled after trading began.
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U.S. spot XRP ETFs stretched their inflow streak to 12 weeks on Oct. 6 yet held $97 million less than investors had put in, according to Sosovalue data. One overnight drop in XRP's price outweighed the day's $3.14 million net more than 20 times.
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Bitcoin fell about $3,540 on Oct. 7 after reports of tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, $2,000 of it in 30 minutes, as ETH slid below $2,600. Liquidated leveraged longs set the pace, so whether prices hold once that forced selling clears will show how much of the move was about oil.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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BlackRock's ETHA lost $201.89 million on Tuesday, the entire ether ETF outflow in a sixth straight losing session, as its IBIT drew $122 million. So far the gap between bitcoin and ether money sits inside one issuer's two funds, and no other ether ETF had net flows.
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Crypto liquidations hit $547 million on Brent's jump as open interest slips only 1%
Crypto liquidations rose 235% to $547 million after Iran's tanker attacks pushed Brent above $101, yet futures open interest slipped only 1%. Leverage was already thin, so the selling moved token prices far more than it cleared out positions.
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Earlier coverage
- Bitcoin's $89.9 million ETF outflow is too small to explain its stall below $87,000
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Ark and Fidelity redemptions outweigh BlackRock's $69.85 million bitcoin ETF inflow
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- BlackRock's IBIT draws $450 million in a week when all US bitcoin ETFs net $241 million
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Grayscale's Zcash ETF would erase its net inflows within eight trading days at late-September redemption rates
Invest · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Bitcoin's rate-driven breakout follows a quarter in which ETFs took in $6.34 billion
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Bitcoin rallies toward $87,000 with ETF inflows at a tenth of their September peak
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Citi ties its $113,000 Bitcoin target to $5 billion of slow adviser and brokerage inflows
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Bitcoin ETFs' $3.1 billion nine-day streak turned their year's net flows positive
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Bitcoin's two-week range pits $3 billion of ETF buying against the highest Treasury yields since 2007
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Spot Bitcoin ETFs' $2.4 billion week caps a $6.7 billion climb since mid-July
Invest · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Ether ETFs took in 0.74% of assets on the day bitcoin funds shed 0.22%
Invest · August 30, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Short covering supplied 39% of the buying that took Bitcoin to $87,395
Invest · September 22, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- A $433M Bitcoin ETF session nets out to roughly 77 coins for the week
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers