On Could 2, European cryptocurrency funding agency CoinShares revealed its newest “Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report,” which said that the digital asset market skilled bearish sentiment for the second consecutive week, leading to outflows totaling $72 million. The report famous that the bearish sentiment might be attributed to the chance of additional rate of interest hikes by the USA Federal Reserve this week.
Based on the report, crypto market funds skilled outflows throughout all geographies and suppliers, notably in Germany and Canada, the place outflows reached $40 million and $14 million, respectively.
Bitcoin (BTC) recorded the most important outflows at $46 million, with short-Bitcoin additionally experiencing outflows of $7.8 million, its highest determine since December 2022. Regardless of the current outflows, short-Bitcoin continues to steer in inflows for the yr, with web inflows of $119 million. In the meantime, Ether (ETH) merchandise noticed outflows amounting to $19 million, marking the largest weekly outflows since the Merge in September 2022.
On a constructive notice, a small variety of altcoin funds skilled minor inflows, with Solana (SOL), Algorand (ALGO) and Polygon (MATIC) every gaining lower than $1 million in capital flows.
Blockchain equities additionally skilled damaging sentiment, leading to outflows of $2.5 million final week, though the year-to-date web flows stay constructive at $27 million.
CoinShares researcher James Butterfill authored the report. He wrote, “Volumes stay subdued for the broader crypto market (50% lower than yr common) whereas ETP [exchange-traded products] funding product volumes at US$1.7bn for the week are 16% above the yr common.”
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