Crypto Funds Experience $1.73B Outflow – Largest Drop Since November 2025

Investors withdrew $1.73 billion from digital asset funds, marking the largest outflow since mid-November 2025. This trend suggests a growing bearish sentiment, reminiscent of previous downturns. Key factors influencing this shift include sluggish price movements, diminishing hopes for immediate rate cuts, and disappointment in crypto's performance as a safeguard against inflation, as highlighted in the latest CoinShares Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report. Bitcoin Leads the Withdrawals Bitcoin funds faced significant withdrawals totaling $1.09 billion over the last week, the highest outflow seen since mid-November 2025. Conversely, short-Bitcoin products saw a modest gain of $0.5 million, indicating a cautious trading environment with some anticipating further price drops. Overall sentiment has remained stagnant since the notable sell-off on October 10, 2025. The bearish sentiment extended to other major cryptocurrencies, with Ethereum experiencing $630 million in outflows, and XRP losing $18.2 million amid a broadly weak market. Sui also recorded outflows of $6 million during this timeframe, while Solana countered the trend with an inflow of $17.1 million. Binance, Chainlink, and Litecoin saw smaller gains of $4.6 million, $3.8 million, and $0.3 million, respectively. Regionally, the United States led the outflows with $1.79 billion leaving in just one week. Sweden and the Netherlands followed with outflows of $11.1 million and $4.4 million, respectively. Hong Kong also reported withdrawals of $2.6 million. Minor outflows were noted in several other nations, including Brazil ($1.7 million), France ($0.9 million), and Italy ($0.1 million). Conversely, Canada recorded strong inflows of $33.5 million, while Switzerland added $32.5 million and Germany gained $19.1 million. Bearish Positioning Deepens Bitcoin is currently trading around $88,000 but is under significant bearish pressure. Petr Kozyakov, Co-Founder and CEO of Mercuryo, noted that the markets are in a “risk-off” mode, with gold and silver prices rising as investors flock to traditional safe-haven assets amid escalating geopolitical tensions. In comments to CryptoPotato, Kozyakov observed that both retail and institutional crypto investors are adopting a defensive stance. Additionally, areas that attracted retail interest last year, particularly meme coins, are seeing a decline in activity, and institutional involvement is also diminishing.