Bitcoin ETFs Holding by Institutions Jump 14% to 1,100!

Key Points:

• Despite a 12% drop in Bitcoin’s price, institutional investors increased their holdings in Bitcoin ETFs by 14%, reaching 1,100 investors.
• Institutions now control 21.15% of Bitcoin ETF assets, up from 18.74%, with $11 billion managed in these ETFs.
• Bitcoin ETFs are seeing the fastest adoption by institutions of any ETF in history, with predictions for even larger inflows in the coming years.

Bitcoin (BTC) is declining by 12%, and asset manager Bitwise has recorded a massive increase in institutional investment activity within Bitcoin ETFs.

Institutional Participation in Bitcoin ETFs Surges

The chief investment officer at Bitwise, Matt Hougan, found a substantial rise in institutional interest. The number of institutional investors holding Bitcoin ETFs increased 14%, from 965 in Q1 to 1,100 in Q2. This increase points to the growing commitment from professional investors despite the price volatility.

Their allocation to Bitcoin ETF was approximately 18.74% of the total AUM but rose to 21.15% in this quarter. To close the quarter, $11 billion of Bitcoin ETFs was within institutional-level management. This starkly indicates more confident placement on behalf of these asset allocators in the asset class. “This is a great sign,” Hougan said, noting that if institutions are willing to invest in bitcoin while its price is falling, they are likely to commit much more during a bull run.

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Record Institutional Adoption of Bitcoin ETFs

Bitwise’s report reveals that BTC ETFs are, as it were, any institutional investment vehicle. The data shows that institutional adoption in these ETFs is at a record pace and faster than in any other ETF. The report estimates that flows into Bitcoin may keep picking up, with more significant investments in 2025 than in 2024 and even more enormous amounts in 2026.

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs also revealed in a 13F filing that it holds positions in seven of the eleven Bitcoin ETFs available in the US. This further underlines the rising institutional presence in the Bitcoin ETF space and underpins, perhaps more than anything else, the report’s assertion that “the institutions are coming, and they are coming in size.”