US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds closed a volatile week with a small net inflow, while spot Ethereum ETFs ended a long run of positive weekly results in the red. The shifts came during a week dominated by a failed US Senate vote on the CLARITY Act and the Federal Reserve’s first rate increase in more than three years.

According to SoSoValue data cited in the source report, Bitcoin funds absorbed enough money on Friday to offset most of the earlier damage. Ethereum products also saw buying at the start and end of the week, but heavier withdrawals over the middle three sessions pushed the group to a weekly net outflow.

Bitcoin funds recover late

Spot Bitcoin ETFs started the week with a modest gain of a little more than $160 million on Monday. Sentiment then turned sharply on Tuesday, when the CLARITY Act was due for a vote in the US Senate. After the measure failed to pass, investors pulled $450.33 million from the funds, the largest daily net outflow since late June.

Pressure continued on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in over three years. That session brought another $296 million in net withdrawals. Flows improved on Thursday, when the products posted inflows of just under $160 million, but the real turnaround came on Friday.

Bitcoin ETFs added $433.03 million on Friday, their strongest daily result in two weeks. That late surge was enough to lift the category back into positive territory for the full week, though only narrowly, with a net inflow of $6.21 million.

Price moves tracked the week’s swings

The source article said Bitcoin rose from roughly $76,000 to more than $80,000 by the end of Friday. That rebound coincided with the strongest day of ETF inflows after several sessions shaped by macro and policy-related uncertainty.

The week had been widely viewed as one of the most important macro periods of the year for crypto markets, which helps explain the sharp changes in fund flows from one day to the next. Even so, the final weekly total for Bitcoin ETFs showed how a single strong session can reverse most of the damage from earlier withdrawals.

Ethereum streak comes to an end

Spot Ethereum ETFs did not manage the same recovery. The group entered the week after an extended positive run in which cumulative net inflows had climbed from less than $10.9 billion to almost $13.4 billion. Before this week, only one of the previous ten business weeks had finished negative, and that decline was limited to a $2.26 million outflow in the second full week of August.

This time, however, the products ended with $140 million in net outflows. The week opened well enough, with $121.02 million in inflows on Monday, and it also closed on a positive note Friday with another $143.80 million added.

Those gains were outweighed by three straight days of withdrawals in between. Ethereum ETFs lost $141.47 million on Tuesday, $224.11 million on Wednesday, and $39.24 million on Thursday, leaving the category in the red for the week overall.

What comes next

Despite the weaker ETF result, Ethereum’s price still moved higher late in the week, climbing above $2,600 on Friday and Saturday before easing back to just below that level, according to the source report. The article linked that retreat to recent developments in the Middle East, while noting that the week’s ETF flow pattern had already broken the prior streak of positive results.

The next confirmed step is whether the coming week’s daily ETF data shows follow-through after Friday’s split finish: a late recovery for Bitcoin funds and a negative weekly close for Ethereum products. For now, the latest figures point to a market still reacting quickly to policy decisions, rate moves, and broader geopolitical developments.

Source: cryptopotato.com