Bitcoin ETFs Draw $3.2B in Best Week Since October as Strategy Ends Buying Pause

Cryptocurrency investment funds just posted their strongest single week since Bitcoin's all-time high. Bank of America's closely watched weekly cross-asset publication, The Flow Show, recorded $3.2 billion in net inflows into global crypto funds for the week ending approximately August 22 — the largest seven-day haul since October 2025, when Bitcoin was trading near its peak of roughly $126,000. The data, compiled using EPFR's global fund-flow tracking and authored by BofA chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett, reversed a $392 million net outflow from the prior week — a swing of roughly $3 billion in seven days. Then, on August 31, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) disclosed in a Form 8-K filing that it had purchased 4,603 bitcoin for $369.7 million between August 24 and August 30, ending a buying pause that had stretched more than 10 weeks. Together, the two data points answered a question TechTimes spent three weeks raising: whether genuine institutional demand — not just a short-squeeze cascade — was finally returning to crypto markets.

ETF Authorized Participants and Why Flow Numbers Are More Than Sentiment

The $3.2 billion figure comes from BofA's EPFR data, which tracks global crypto funds — including European exchange-traded products and globally domiciled crypto vehicles — rather than only U.S. spot products. That broader universe explains why BofA's total exceeds the roughly $2.6 billion tallied by SoSoValue for domestic spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs specifically: both numbers are accurate, they simply measure different populations.