Bitcoin and altcoin asset manager CoinShares said institutional investment in crypto assets reached $36 million last week as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rocked global markets. As Kriptokoin.com, we provide the details…
CoinShares details institutions’ investments in altcoin and Bitcoin
In the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report, Coinshares said that institutional inflows from the US have neutralized the European exits from last week. Despite the ongoing turmoil and anticipated negative sentiment in Eastern Europe, digital asset investment products saw a total inflow of $36 million last week. Volumes on Bitcoin crypto exchanges trading the RUB/USD pair increased by 121 percent on a weekly basis. Regionally, flows were one-sided; While a total of 95 million dollars was seen in the Americas (especially Canada and Brazil), a total of 59 million dollars was seen in European investment products last week.
According to CoinShares, this marks the sixth week of inflows into digital asset products. As usual, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap, Bitcoin (BTC), took the lion’s share of the entries, followed by the second leading cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum (ETH). Bitcoin saw a total of $17 million in inflows last week and entered its fifth week in a row with a total of $239 million. Ethereum has seen small inflows totaling $4.2 million.
Institutions exited many altcoins
Breaking recent entry trends, Solana (SOL) and Litecoin (LTC) experienced exits this week along with most of the altcoin market. According to CoinShares, emerging smart contract platform Tezos (XTZ) was the only digital investment product to challenge the emerging altcoin markets. Most altcoins saw minor breakouts in the past week. Solana and Litecoin were the main focus of negative investor sentiment, with exits of $2.6 million and $0.5 million respectively. Tezos was the only altcoin investment product to see inflows totaling $4.4 million. Crypto markets appeared unaffected by geopolitical tensions on Monday, as stocks succumbed to new selling pressure.
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