Spot Ether ETFs End 19-Day Inflow Streak with First Outflow

US-based spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have posted the first net outflow day after a record 19-day streak of consecutive inflows.

On June 13, spot Ether (ETH) ETFs recorded net outflows of $2.1 million, ending the longest inflow streak since the productsโ€™ launch in July 2024, according to Farside data.

Streak beats previous record by a single day

The streak began on May 16, excluding the market closure on May 26 for US Memorial Day.ย 

The ETFs accumulated a total of $1.37 billion in inflows over the 19-day streak, representing roughly 35% of the productsโ€™ total $3.87 billion net inflows. On June 11, spot Ether ETFs saw its largest daily inflow in more than four months, totaling $240.3 million.

Before this, the longest inflow streak for spot Ether ETFs was 18 days, which ended on Dec. 19 amid broader crypto market optimism following US President Donald Trumpโ€™s election win in November.

Crypto analyst ZeroHedge said in a June 13 post on X that despite a record streak of consecutive inflow days, Ether is trading lower than it was at the start of the stretch on May 16, when it was trading at $2,620.

At the time of publication, Ether is trading at $2,552, according to CoinMarketCap data.

Ether is down 1.44% over the past 30 days. Source: CoinMarketCap

Many industry participants believe spot Ether ETFs require a staking feature to attract greater interest. On March 20, BlackRockโ€™s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, said that the ETF is โ€œless perfectโ€ without staking.

Optimism for Ether is growing

Meanwhile, Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan recently told Cointelegraph that there is a โ€œhigh level of optimism toward Ethereum.โ€ย 

Related: SharpLink buys $463M in ETH, becomes largest public ETH holder

โ€œMore and more eyes have turned to Ethereum,โ€ he said on June 11, adding that the asset has been โ€œplaying catch-up since markets began their recovery in mid-April.โ€ย 

However, historically, Q3 has delivered the lowest average returns for Ether, averaging just 0.88% since 2013, according to CoinGlass data.

On June 13, sports betting platform SharpLink Gaming acquired 176,271 Ether for $463 million, becoming the worldโ€™s largest publicly traded holder of ETH.

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