US crypto funds top $7.5B inflows in 2025 as investor appetite grows

Crypto investment products in the United States have attracted over $7.5 billion worth of investment in 2025, with a fifth week of net positive inflows last week signaling growing investor demand for digital assets.

US-based crypto investment products attracted $785 million worth of investment last week, pushing the year-to-date (YTD) total to over $7.5 billion, according to a May 19 report by digital asset manager CoinShares.

The latest figure marks the fifth consecutive week of net positive flows, following nearly $7 billion in outflows during February and March.

Weekly crypto asset flows, USD, million. Source: CoinShares

The United States accounted for the bulk of inflows, with $681 million, followed by Germany at $86.3 million and Hong Kong at $24.4 million.

Crypto flows by country. Source: CoinShares

Investor demand for risk assets such as cryptocurrencies staged a significant recovery after the White House announced a 90-day pause on additional tariffs on May 12, which marked a 24% cut for import tariffs for both the US and China.

A day after the announcement, Coinbase exchange saw 9,739 Bitcoin (BTC) worth more than $1 billion withdrawn from the exchange โ€” the highest net outflow recorded in 2025, signaling that institutional appetite was โ€œaccelerating,โ€ according to Bitwise head of European research, Andrรฉ Dragosch.

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Ethereum leads with $205 million in weekly inflows

Ether (ETH) was the top performer among crypto investment products, attracting $205 million in inflows last week. That brings its year-to-date total to more than $575 million.

The report attributed the $200 million to renewed investor optimism following the successful Pectra upgrade and the appointment of new co-executive director Tomasz Staล„czak.

After initial delays, Ethereumโ€™s Pectra upgrade went live on the mainnet on May 7, introducing improvements such as higher staking limits and account abstraction via EIP-7702.

By contrast, Solana (SOL) investment products were the only major assets to see net outflows, with $890,000 withdrawn over the past week.

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Meanwhile, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a proposal to preserve trustless, censorship-resistant access to Ethereum, aiming to make Ethereum layer-1 scaling โ€œmore friendlyโ€ to users running local nodes for personal use.ย 

โ€œThe plan would drastically reduce the 1.3TB data burden by allowing nodes to sync only relevant information, opening the door to broader participation,โ€ Stella Zlatareva, Nexo Dispatch editor, told Cointelegraph.

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