In a most lachrymose spectacle, the mystical empires of digital finance have once again turned their wallets toward the void, printing a fourth scandalous week of outflows that swelled to $173 million and catapulted cumulative losses past the ominous threshold of $3.74 billion. The early dawn of the week offered a glimmer of hope-$575 million poured in-only to see price morale plummet so gently that a monstrous $853 million slipped out in the wake of the market’s indifference.
Friday’s sighing breath of softer CPI data offered a fragile reprieve: $105 million arrived, but the frenetic trading fever cooled as ETP volumes nosedived to a meagre $27 billion, barely half of last week’s record $63 billion.
Altcoin Appetite Surges
The latest quarter of CoinShares’ “Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report” serves up a bitter draught of Bitcoin’s continued unpopularity, with investors tossing $133 million into the black hole that is Bitcoin‑linked products. Short Bitcoin vehicles fared no better, its losses stacked up to $15.4 million over the past fortnight-a pattern that, as CoinShares elegantly points out, recurs like a cycle view from some antique Roman amphitheater.
Ethereum, ever the opportunist, shed $85.1 million, while the hyper‑lowly Hyperliquid languished at a loss of $1 million. Multi‑asset strategies also wept away $14 million. Yet the altcoin‑obsessed yuppies found greener pastures: XRP, Solana, and Chainlink plucked $33.4 million, $31 million, and $1.1 million, respectively, while Litecoin managed a modest $0.4 million.
Across the Atlantic, the United States mourned $403 million, whereas abroad the spoils gathered an eager $230 million of new capital-Germany leading with $115 million, Canada contributing $46.3 million, and Switzerland at $36.8 million. Brazil offered $14 million, Australia nearly $10 million, and Sweden $2.8 million in the same run‑through.
Predictable Correction?
Bitcoin, unable to keep its dignity in the face of laboratory experiments, has lost almost half its value since its October apex. A chorus of market analysts, in their boundless optimism, have wagered that the price could fall imperceptibly to the abyssal $50 000 before a respectable recovery occurs. Meanwhile, fintech veteran Hedy Wang, founder of BlockStreet, argues that the turbulence is merely the market maturing, not collapsing beneath the weight of its own foolishness.
“Unlike earlier speculative bubbles, the current Web3 ecosystem is supported by a more resilient and collaborative community ethos focused on long‑term building. Therefore, an analytical view suggests the market is undergoing a natural, albeit volatile, evolutionary phase, with data pointing towards a repeating historical pattern rather than an unprecedented crisis.”
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