What many thought unlikely is now becoming reality: the US Bitcoin ETF are preparing to cross the symbolic bar of $ 1,000 billion in transaction volume. In less than 18 months, these financial products upset the stock market landscape, imposing bitcoin as an essential asset in traditional markets. A dazzling rise in power, carried by an unprecedented institutional craze.
In short
- The US Bitcoin ETF reach $ 1,000 billion in volume in less than 18 months.
- Blackrock crushes the competition with 79 % market share via its IBIT fund.
- Bitcoin stands out as a major institutional active.
Bitcoin: a dazzling ascent to the summits
In less than 18 months, the US Bitcoin ETF exceeded all expectations, flirting with a volume of cumulative transactions of $ 1,000 billion. A performance that is not trivial, in a market still young and often deemed unpredictable. This astronomical figure, far from being a simple statistical milestone, especially marks a new era for the institutional adoption of the BTC.
Since their launch in January 2024, these products have experienced a thunderous departure: $ 100 billion exchanged in March, then 200 billion in April, while Bitcoin exploded its previous record to around 74,000 dollars.
The continuation was a little more temperate, the market entering an prolonged consolidation phase. But this apparent calm hid a silent rise in power.
Then, the unexpected trigger: Donald Trump's electoral victory in November, perceived as a political green light with crypto expansion. In the process, the Bitcoin ETF explodes again, exceeding 500 billion, then the 750 billion last February. Today, at 995.2 billion dollars, history is written live. And at a rate of 2.3 to 4.4 billion per day, the symbolic threshold of the Billion already seems behind us.
Blackrock: the giant who won everything
Behind This surgea name tirelessly comes back: Blackrock, via its Ibit fund. Party modestly with 22 % of market share at launch, the IBIT today dominates without sharing with 79 % of the volume exchanged. A overwhelming supremacy, which relegates its competitors to simple extras, even Grayscale and its converted GBTC, however pioneer of the sector.
In terms of assets under management, the domination of Blackrock is just as clear: $ 70 billion out of the 120 billion that all ETF Bitcoin Spot totaled. A performance all the more spectacular as it was achieved in just 341 days of rating, spraying the previous record of the GLD fund based on gold, which had set … 1,691 days.
This success is not only due to BlackRock's fire power. It is also the fruit of a unique situation: a bitcoin spent of $ 30,000 – at the time of the Ibit file file – to more than $ 110,000 today. Or a yield seven times higher than the S&P 500. For those who still doubted the legitimacy of the Bitcoin in a long-term portfolio, the figures speak for themselves.
The 1,000 billion dollars' CAP approach for US Bitcoin ETF Bitcoin is not just an accounting record. It is a strong signal: that of an active active in the past marginal which fully enters the pantheon of world investment vehicles. The race is just beginning. Carried by an increasing dynamic, Bitcoin has not yet revealed all its potential. Its growing rarity could well feed a new spectacular outbreak.
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