ETFs

Binance Direct Stocks crossed more than $1 billion in U.S. equity holdings within 30 days of launch, giving the exchange its first major usage milestone for the new stock-trading product. The June 1 rollout opened access to more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs inside the Binance app for eligible users. The product supports fractional trades starting from $5 and lets users fund purchases with supported balances such as USDT, USDC and BNB. The first 30 days included 22 U.S.…

Ondo Finance has partnered with Mirae Asset to bring Global X ETFs into tokenized markets, giving one of the world’s largest asset-management groups a direct path into onchain fund distribution. The two companies signed an MOU to build tokenized investment products and onchain asset-management infrastructure, with exchange-traded funds at the center of the first push. Mirae Asset is a $700 billion-plus global financial group, with managed assets worldwide above $729.5 billion across asset management, wealth management, brokerage, investment banking and…

Professional investors cut their Bitcoin ETF exposure sharply in the first quarter of 2026, showing how institutions reacted when the ETF-era Bitcoin market faced its first major bear-market test. CoinShares’ Q1 2026 Bitcoin 13F analysis found that professional holdings fell from 313,000 BTC to 261,000 BTC during the quarter. That represents a 17% quarter-on-quarter decline, with 13F filers reducing exposure by roughly 52,500 BTC. The dollar value of those holdings fell even harder, dropping 35% to $17.8 billion. CoinShares attributed…

April turned out to be the best month for the cryptocurrency markets on different fronts since late last year, with BTC posting a double-digit surge and the spot Bitcoin ETFs attracting almost $2 billion. At the same time, the exchange-traded funds tracking the world’s largest altcoin stopped a five-month painful streak, in which they bled well over $2.5 billion. Spot Bitcoin ETFs Turn Green YTD After a record-setting July 2025 in which the funds tracking bitcoin gained over $6 billion,…

ARK Invest spent about $39.4 million on Robinhood Markets (HOOD) shares on April 29 while selling roughly $6.1 million of its own ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), using the brokerage’s post-earnings slide to add to a long-running position. The trades, disclosed in ARK’s daily filings, split across the firm’s three flagship innovation funds and came a day after the brokerage reported a 47% year-over-year drop in first-quarter crypto revenue. Why ARK Bought the Robinhood Dip Cathie Wood’s firm picked up…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded no fresh inflows on Monday, as US Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETFs together shed $263 million that day. The pullback ended a nine-day inflow streak. The reversal arrived at a tense moment for the largest spot Bitcoin product. IBIT flows have been roughly flat for six months. Fresh appetite for allocators appears to have cooled, even as BTC trades near recent highs. Nine-Day Bitcoin ETF Streak Comes to an End Data from SoSoValue shows US…

US equity ETFs (exchange-traded funds) drew a record $7.5 billion in average daily inflows during April. The pace more than doubles the $2.9 billion March average, according to Strategas Asset Management. The data shows cumulative inflows above $100 billion since the March 30 low. The reading reflects institutional risk appetite that historically supports crypto ETF flows and tokenized asset adoption. Equity ETF Demand Reflects Post-March Risk-On Rotation Strategas figures show April 2026 daily flows averaged $7,474 million versus $2,950 million…

After ending March as the first red month since their inception, the spot XRP ETFs have started to regain investors’ attention, and they reached a major achievement at the end of the previous business week. In the meantime, the underlying asset was rejected at $1.46 earlier this week and remains unable to capitalize on the returning demand for the ETFs. Ripple ETFs See New ATH The exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of the cross-border asset had a spectacular first month…

MicroStrategy’s STRC perpetual preferred stock has funded the purchase of 10 times more bitcoin (BTC) than all US spot ETFs combined so far in 2026. The figures, sourced from bitcointreasuries.net, show STRC-linked acquisitions totaling roughly 77,000 BTC year-to-date. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF net purchases sit at approximately 8,000 BTC over the same period. How STRC Fuels Strategy’s Bitcoin Accumulation Data highlighted by Bitcoin financial services firm River indicated the difference, noting that STRC has bought 10X more Bitcoin than all…