Bitcoin ETFs Post a Seventh Straight Inflow Day as August Tops $3B

US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds took in $314.37 million on Tuesday, a seventh consecutive session of net inflows. SoSoValue data carried by Cointelegraph on Wednesday puts BlackRock's IBIT at $284.42 million of that total. No fund in the group closed the day negative. Ether funds ran a seventh day of their own, adding about $180 million. Total assets in the bitcoin funds now sit near $99 billion, and August inflows have passed $3 billion.

Where Tuesday's money went

The split was lopsided. After IBIT came Fidelity's FBTC at $15.45 million, Grayscale's BTC at $6.98 million, Morgan Stanley's MSBT at $4.52 million and Bitwise's BITB at $3 million. Bitcoin World describes IBIT's share as roughly 90% of the day. Its own figures give 90.5%, so the description holds against the numbers it publishes.

Ether funds are reported two ways for the same session. Cointelegraph gives $179.8 million, The Crypto Basic gives $180 million. That is one number rounded differently, not a dispute. Across the seven days those funds have taken in roughly $1 billion, on Cointelegraph's count.

Two counts of the same streak

The six-day figure does not reconcile. CryptoSlate, writing on Tuesday, put six straight days of inflows at $2.26 billion, and Cointribune and BigGo carry the same number. CoinDesk's live coverage the same day described those six sessions as more than $2.5 billion. The gap runs to about a quarter of a billion dollars. Neither account acknowledges the other, and nothing located explains the difference.

The August total does reconcile, and the arithmetic is worth showing. CryptoSlate had the month at $2.72 billion through Monday. Add Tuesday's $314.37 million and the result is $3.03 billion, which is the figure Cointelegraph published on Wednesday. That makes August the strongest inflow month of 2026 on this count, against a previous high near $1.97 billion in April. Cointelegraph puts the funds $390 million short of October 2025's monthly total with four sessions left.

What the year still owes

A month of buying has not squared 2026. Cointelegraph reports the funds remain $2.26 billion in net outflows for the year, and no other outlet located repeats it. Read that one carefully, because $2.26 billion is also CryptoSlate's six-day streak total. They are different quantities from different desks and cannot be merged.

The hole was dug in May and June. Two record redemption runs pulled out roughly $7.2 billion, including 13 straight outflow sessions worth $4.37 billion, and fund assets fell from $104.29 billion to $80.40 billion while bitcoin sank to a 21-month low near $59,300. Assets bottomed close to $76.6 billion in mid-August. Six sessions later they were back above $98 billion.

The level that turned the rally back

Price has stopped cooperating. Bitcoin traded near $79,000 early on Wednesday, down about 1% on the day in CoinDesk's 04:13 UTC reading and down 2% at $78,880 when Cointelegraph published three hours later. Tuesday's high of $81,265 was rejected at a 50-week moving average of $81,085. Ether, solana and XRP all gave back ground. The week still shows bitcoin up 23%.

CryptoQuant's head of research, Julio Moreno, reads the same tape as an early bull market.

"Basically all metrics are pointing to the initial phase of a new bull market," Moreno said.

His firm's Bull Score sits at 80, up from 30, with eight of ten metrics bullish and the highest reading since 6 October 2025. He names $83,000, the 365-day moving average, as the level that would confirm it. CoinDesk alone reports $6.4 billion of bitcoin options expiring Friday with max pain at $68,000, and that figure stands on one outlet. Four trading sessions decide whether August takes the record.