Leading crypto manager CoinShares says institutional investors poured billions into crypto investment vehicles last year, obliterating previous inflow records.
In its latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report, CoinShares says that 2024 saw a new record of over $44 billion in institutional digital asset inflows despite the final trading days of the year posting outflows.
“Digital asset investment products saw US$585m of inflows for the first 3 days of this year, although for the full week, which includes the last two trading days of 2024 saw net outflows totaling US$75m.
The conclusion of 2024 marked a record US$44.2bn of inflows globally, almost 4x the prior record set in 2021 which saw US$10.5bn inflows. Marked by the entrance of US spot-based ETFs, which saw 100% of the inflows at US$44.4bn.”
Switzerland provided an additional $630 million in inflows while Canada and Sweden saw $707 million and $682 million in outflows a piece. However, those outflows could be misleading, because according to CoinShares, the majority of them are the result of investors pulling out of Canadian and Swedish products to reinvest in American digital asset vehicles.
Bitcoin (BTC), per usual, took the lion’s share of inflows last year.
“Seeing US$38bn inflows representing 29% of total assets under management (AuM). Despite the prices rises short-bitcoin investment products saw inflows of US$108m, but less than in 2024 where it saw US$116m inflows.”
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