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Spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) linked to Bitcoin’s price recorded an inflow of $1.32 billion in March—marking the first increase this year, and indeed since October, according to data from the SoSoValue platform.
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs concluded the first quarter of this year with a total capital outflow of approximately $500 million. In January, investors withdrew $1.61 billion, followed by an outflow of $207 million in February. The highest outflow ever recorded occurred in November, totaling $3.48 billion, following an inflow of $3.42 billion from investors.
Trading volumes for spot Bitcoin ETFs in March were around $79 billion, compared to $93 billion in February and $87 billion in January. By the end of the quarter, since the launch of the crypto funds, the cumulative inflow of investor funds reached approximately $56 billion, while the total assets under management amounted to $87.5 billion.
The inflow of funds in March was insufficient to offset the outflows experienced over the previous four months.
The outflow of funds from January to March coincided with a decline in Bitcoin’s price: during the first quarter, the cryptocurrency fell by more than 22%. This marks the second consecutive quarter of negative performance, with a 23% drop recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025, as reported by CoinGlass.
Spot ETFs with shares linked to Ethereum’s price ended March with an outflow of $46 million, according to SoSoValue’s analysis. For the quarter, losses were the largest among cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, totaling $769 million. In March, approximately $31 million was withdrawn from XRP ETFs, but the quarter ended with a net inflow of $43 million. As for Solana ETFs, the cumulative inflow for the quarter reached $213 million, with no month since the launch in October recording an outflow of funds.
Last week, from March 24 to 27, over $290 million was withdrawn from Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, according to figures from Farside Investors. The majority of the outflow was attributed to the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) managed by BlackRock.
