Bitcoin remains ‘primary focus’ for investors amid year highs: CoinShares

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Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) (BTC) has been the “primary focus” for institutional investors over the last two weeks, according to Coinshares, as the cryptocurrency continues to hit new prihighs for 2023.

In a July 3 report from CoinShares’ Head of Research James Butterfill, the analyst noted that Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) -related products saw $310.6 million of inflows over the last two weeks, representing the vast majority of crypto product inflows.

“ Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) remained the primary focus of investors […] with the last 2 weeks inflows representing 98% of all digital asset flows,” said Butterfill.

Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) weekly inflows. Source: CoinShares

The last two weeks of inflows are a reversal from the previous nine consecutive weeks of outflows. Short Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) products also experienced a minor outflow of $0.9 million over the last week.

It’s the second time this year that Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) products have accounted for 98% of inflows into cryptocurrency investment products, and comes amid a surge in Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) ’s price and dominance.

Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) accounted for 98% of digital asset investment product inflows over the last fortnight. Source: CoinShares.

Much of this surge has been pinned on BlackRock’s June 15 spot Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) ETF application, followed by similar filings from the likes of Fidelity, Invesco, Wisdom Tree and Valkyrie.

Since the filing, the price of Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) has increased 25.2% to $31,131 at the time of writing. Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) ’s dominance — which is a measure of its market cap relative to the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies — has risen to 51.46%, according to data.

Meanwhile, Ethereum ( $2,287.09 ) investment products inflows came in at $2.7 million last week, the second week of inflows that have reversed a lengthy outflow trend.

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Speaking to Cointelegraph on June 26, Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov said there has been a “fair amount of interest” from institutional investors in core assets such as Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) and Ethereum ( $2,287.09 ) , but less so in alternate cryptocurrencies.

“The narrative around Ethereum ( $2,287.09 ) is pretty much the understanding that future ecosystems of tokenizeation are likely to be EVM-based. And if they’re EVM based, then Ethereum ( $2,287.09 ) is going to play out as utility.”

Shaulov said the narrative around Bitcoin ( $74,790.00 ) has been less specific, but notes that most investors see the need to hold the cryptocurrency.

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