{"id":153561,"date":"2026-04-21T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=153561"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:40","slug":"1-4-billion-pours-into-crypto-whats-driving-the-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=153561","title":{"rendered":"$1.4 Billion Pours Into Crypto \u2014 What\u2019s Driving The Surge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index climbed above 29 on Monday for the first time since January 29, pulling out of \u201cextreme fear\u201d and settling into plain \u201cfear<\/a>.\u201d It is a small move on a scale, but in crypto markets, it signals a shift in mood that money tends to follow.<\/p>\n

Funds Flow Back In<\/h2>\n

Crypto investment products drew $1.4 billion in fresh inflows<\/a> last week, according to data from CoinShares \u2014 the second-largest weekly figure recorded since January. The gain built on the prior week\u2019s $1.1 billion, stretching the inflow run to three straight weeks and $2.7 billion combined.<\/p>\n

Total assets under management across crypto exchange-traded products rose close to $155 billion, the highest mark since early February. Just weeks earlier, in March, that figure had fallen as low as $128 billion.<\/p>\n

CoinShares head of research James Butterfill pointed to a recovering appetite for risk, tied largely to ongoing US-Iran ceasefire<\/a> talks. Bitcoin\u2019s price added to the mood, briefly pushing toward $78,000 on Friday before pulling back.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin And Ether Lead, Altcoins Get Left Behind<\/h2>\n

Bitcoin products captured the bulk of the action. Data shows inflows into Bitcoin ETPs reached $1.12 billion for the week, pushing year-to-date totals to $3 billion, with assets under management sitting at $123 billion. US spot Bitcoin ETFs<\/a> alone accounted for roughly $1 billion of that weekly total.<\/p>\n

Ether had its strongest week since January, pulling in $328 million. That was enough to flip Ether ETPs into positive territory for the year, with year-to-date inflows now sitting at $197 million.<\/p>\n

Not everything moved in the same direction. XRP<\/a> products bled $56 million in outflows, the largest among altcoins. Solana<\/a> recorded smaller but still negative flows of $2.3 million.<\/p>\n

Short-Bitcoin products took in just $1.4 million, suggesting only a thin slice of investors are still betting against the market.<\/p>\n

Inflation Data Gets Brushed Aside<\/p>\n

Geographically, the US drove most of the action \u2014 $1.5 billion in inflows. Germany came in second at $28 million. Switzerland ran the other way, posting $138 million in outflows.<\/p>\n

March CPI came in at 3.3% year over year, with core inflation at 2.6%. Based on reports from CoinShares, markets largely looked past the headline number, treating core inflation as contained and supply-driven rather than broad-based.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index climbed above 29 on Monday for the first time since January 29, pulling out of \u201cextreme fear\u201d and settling into plain \u201cfear.\u201d It is a small move on a scale, but in crypto markets, it signals a shift in mood that money tends to follow. Funds Flow Back In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":153562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}