What are institutions doing?
US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in 2024 — for the first time, large, regulated buyers can hold Bitcoin through a normal brokerage. This is the structural demand that didn't exist in 2012, 2016 or 2020. Here is what it's doing, day by day.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net inflow of $132.30M on 2026-07-17, a 4-day inflow streak, bringing seven-day demand to +$70.81M.
Institutional demand is positive but modest over the past week. That's 4 straight days of net inflows.
Historical context — not financial advice, not a prediction.
Today's breakdown
Where today sits, and the standout days on record.
Our current source reports the aggregate net flow across all US spot Bitcoin ETFs. A fund-by-fund table (IBIT, FBTC, GBTC …) with the day's largest buyer and seller switches on once a per-issuer source is connected — we won't estimate it in the meantime.
The trend
Daily net flow (green in / red out) with the cumulative total. Switch the window.
Historical context
How unusual is today, across the 300 days on record?
Today's net flow ranks in the 64th percentile of days on record — a fairly ordinary day. Averages are over the days in our series, not since the 2024 launch.
Timeline
The milestones in this series so far.
The structural demand source that didn't exist in prior cycles.
Cumulative totals on this page are measured from here.
$1.21B in a single day.
$-903.11M in a single day.
What changed today?
Yesterday versus today.
Source: SoSoValue · US spot BTC ETF flows · updated 18 Jul 2026. Aggregate net flow across all US spot BTC ETFs. Historical context, not financial advice.
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