{"id":89761,"date":"2025-10-09T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89761"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:50:16","slug":"crypto-etp-investments-surpass-2024-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/crypto-etp-investments-surpass-2024-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto ETP Investments Surpass 2024 Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of 2025, $48.67 billion has flowed into cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP). This figure has already exceeded the total inflow for the entire year of 2024, which was $48.56 billion, according to James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have just seen global digital asset fund flows surpass last year&#8217;s total inflows with US$48.67bn year-to-date. Inflows into altcoins seem to be confined to SOL and XRP at present. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FvGC9ZkDjr\">pic.twitter.com\/FvGC9ZkDjr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Butterfill (@jbutterfill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbutterfill\/status\/1976209760384057833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Increases in inflows are occurring as investors shift their focus to altcoins.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin-based funds have attracted about $30 billion since the start of the year, accounting for 62% of the total inflow. However, the share of digital gold has decreased compared to last year, when it accounted for 86% of all ETP investments, or $41.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum-based instruments have seen significant demand, attracting $14.1 billion, nearly three times the figure for the entire year of 2024 ($4.9 billion). Ether&#8217;s share of the inflow structure increased from 11% to 29%.<\/p>\n<p>Among other altcoins, investors are focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-solana-sol\">Solana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-ripple-and-the-cryptocurrency-xrp\">XRP<\/a>. Investments in ETPs based on these assets amounted to $2.7 billion and $1.9 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Inflows into altcoins appear to be currently limited to SOL and XRP,&#8221; noted Butterfill.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Altcoin ETFs<\/h2>\n<p>In October, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to decide on several applications for spot <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">ETFs<\/a> based on altcoins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On September 18, the regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-simplifies-listing-procedure-for-crypto-etfs\">simplified<\/a> the rules for listing such products. Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart predicted the launch of new instruments &#8220;in the coming weeks and months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, investment company Bitwise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/2045872\/000121390025097494\/ea0260657-s1a5_bitwise.htm\">disclosed<\/a> the fee size for its Solana-based fund. It will be 0.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas described the fees as &#8220;lower than expected.&#8221; In his view, low fees almost always attract investors and can ensure significant capital inflow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bitwise not playing around, plans to charge just 0.20% for their spot Solana ETF. Thought we&#8217;d see higher first, need war to get this low. They prob figured it&#8217;s gonna end up there anyway so just do it now (veteran Terrordome move right there). Low fees have near perfect record\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wzoy2deqie\">https:\/\/t.co\/wzoy2deqie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1976037299373646270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fees for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, approved last year, are also in the range of 0.20%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 21Shares <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2025\/10\/08\/3163782\/0\/en\/21Shares-Enhances-Ethereum-ETF-TETH-with-Staking-Feature-and-One-Year-Fee-Waiver.html\">announced<\/a> the introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-staking-and-how-to-make-money-from-it\">staking<\/a> in its exchange-traded Ethereum fund. The firm will also waive the sponsor fee for one year.<\/p>\n<p>The company described the move as a &#8220;natural evolution&#8221; of Ethereum-based investment products. They stated that it would allow investors to earn income from the protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Solana&#8217;s revenue <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-surpasses-ethereum-in-annual-fee-revenue\">amounted<\/a> to $2.85 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of 2025, $48.67 billion has flowed into cryptocurrency exchange-traded products, surpassing the total inflow for 2024, which was $48.56 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Crypto ETP investments in 2025 have already exceeded 2024's total of $48.56 billion.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,569],"class_list":["post-89761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-altcoins","tag-etf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"102","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Crypto ETP investments in 2025 have already exceeded 2024's total of $48.56 billion.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89763,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89761\/revisions\/89763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}