Over 200K BTC now stored in Bitcoin ETFs and other institutional products

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicles are seeing “gargantuan” inflows this month in a fresh sign that traders’ appetite for BTC exposure is mounting.

Data from monitoring firm Arcane Research published this week shows that Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) now have record high BTC under management.

Despite BTC price action failing to draw in buyers at over 50% below all-time highs, not everyone is feeling risk-off.

According to Arcane’s data, Bitcoin ETPs have seen a flurry of interest from institutional investors both this month and last.

In total, Bitcoin ETPs, which include products such as the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (ETF), now have 205,000 BTC under their control — a new record.

“While the May recovery was strong in ETPs, June has seen even happier days!” Arcane analyst Vetle Lunde told Twitter followers while uploading the numbers on June 2.

In the first few days of June alone, more than 7,000 BTC flowed to ETPs, almost as much as for the entirety of May, which itself saw an impressive 9,765 BTC rise.

“Massive $BTC inflows into Bitcoin ETFs in June already,” Zhu Su, cofounder of asset manager Three Arrows Capital, reacted.

The Purpose Bitcoin ETF, the first Bitcoin spot price ETF to launch anywhere in the world, meanwhile had $1.294 billion worth of assets under management as of June 3, data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass confirmed.

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Things remained somewhat less rosy for industry stalwart the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), however.

According to Coinglass data, GBTC continues to trade near a record discount to the Bitcoin spot price, currently 28.68% as of June 3.

Previously, Cointelegraph reported