BlackRock's IBIT Flexes $269M Muscle While Bitcoin YOLO-Whales Yolo Into the Dip

Investors dumped $269.3 million into BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust on Thursday, notching its best day since early March—when things got spicy with the US-Iran situation. The influx snapped a two-day streak of net outflows across the 12 US spot Bitcoin ETFs, which logged a combined net inflow of $358.1 million. Apparently, whales remembered that buying the dip is basically a national sport at this point.

Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund came in second with $53.3 million, while Morgan Stanley's shiny new Bitcoin Trust pulled $14.9 million on day two of trading. Yeah, that launch Oldenburg called "best-performing ever" for the bank? The numbers are backing her up. Looks like the private bank crowd finally figured out there's more than one flavor of yield.

Bitwise and ARK 21Shares chipped in $11.7 million and $4.8 million respectively, with Franklin Templeton and VanEck each adding roughly $2 million to the Bitcoin ETF party. At this rate, every traditional finance giant will have a Bitcoin product before your uncle learns what a blockchain is.

BlackRock's IBIT has now stacked $1.5 billion in net inflows this year—holding strong even as Bitcoin took a detour from its $97,000 2026 high down to $72,100. Digital assets head Robert Mitchnick noted in March that IBIT investors are "disproportionately long-term buy and hold" types. You know, the people who actually read the whitepaper. revolutionary strategy, truly.

Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley has already filed for staked ETH and SOL ETFs because apparently one moon ticket wasn't enough. Why settle for