Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October

JUST IN: Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M in fresh inflows as Ether ETFs see their largest single-day intake since October, pushing August's total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion. $BTC trades above $75,000, up nearly 8% on the day.

Six hundred and eight million dollars flooded into Bitcoin ETFs in one day.

That's Thursday alone. The week's already past one point six billion, and August as a whole just hit two point07 billion, the biggest month of 2026 with seven trading days still left on the clock. Four straight sessions of inflows, each one bigger than a lot of funds see in a quarter. Wall Street isn't dipping a toe here, it's wading in.

And the quieter story might be the better one. Ether ETFs just pulled in two hundred and twenty one million, their largest single day in almost ten months, over two hundred trading sessions. Ether's sitting near two thousand four hundred, Bitcoin's above seventy five thousand, and the total pile in these Bitcoin funds now stands at fifty three billion dollars.

The retail crowd used to front-run the institutions. Right now it's the institutions doing the buying, and they don't tend to sell on a Tuesday because they're bored.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.