Bitwise spot Bitcoin ETF in top 5% of largest ETFs launched in 2023

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley announced on X that BITB took in another $68 million and bought Bitcoin.

The Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Trust (BITB) is now in the top 5% of exchange-traded funds (ETF) by assets under management (AUM) launched in 2023.

On Jan. 18, Hunter Horsley, the co-founder and CEO of asset manager Bitwise, announced that BITB took in another $68 million and bought Bitcoin (BTC). Horsley highlighted that this places the total inflow of assets into BITB at $370 million in the last four days. 

Today the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF ($BITB) took in another $68,000,000 and bought Bitcoin.

Now $370M total inflows over 4 days.

Grateful to investors for entrusting us to steward their assets in the space.

[View BITB disclosures & prospectus: https://t.co/pAJUG8aACE]

— Hunter Horsley (@HHorsley) January 18, 2024

Nate Geraci, the president of the investment advising firm ETF Store, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that by BITB reaching an AUM of $355 million, the ETF ranked in the top 25 of the 540 ETFs launched in 2023 by AUM.

However, BITB’s AUM dropped in value at the time of writing and is now hovering at around $290 million, according to an ETF tracker created by Sprout Finance. 

On Jan. 16, the newly-launched spot Bitcoin ETFs outperformed 500 other ETFs launched in 2023, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. While the other ETFs clocked a volume of $450 million that day, spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in a total volume of $1.8 billion. 

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Meanwhile, data shared by Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart showed that the overall trading volume across the new spot Bitcoin ETF products reached $10 billion in the last three days.

Among the newly launched spot Bitcoin ETFs, BITB lies in fourth place by AUM, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) at the top with almost $500 million. Fidelity’s FBTC and Wisdomtree’s BTCW follow in second and third place, with $427 million and $321 million respectively.