Wall Street Backed Bitcoin, Then Watched It Crash 50%, Two Reports Explain

Fund flows deepened the damage. Spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $60 billion between January 2024 and October 2025. They then bled more than $5 billion while AI-themed funds absorbed $46 billion.

BlackRock, however, frames the rotation as cyclical rather than a structural loss of demand.

VanEck Sees the Sell-Off Entering Its Final Phase

VanEck's mid-August ChainCheck reaches a similar verdict through on-chain data. Eight of 12 capitulation signals are active. The drawdown has also entered its 10th month, against a historical average of 11 to 13. That timeline mirrors analyst Benjamin Cowen's call for an October cycle bottom.

The firm also expects a shallower trough than the 78% to 94% wipeouts of past cycles because no major lender has collapsed this time.

"We expect a shallower trough this cycle, and we would rather state that assumption plainly than hide it inside a threshold," The VanEck research team, led by Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel, wrote in the report.

Meanwhile, with on-chain researchers arguing the market has entered an accumulation zone, neither firm, BlackRock nor VanEck, promises a quick rebound.

BlackRock still models a 1% to 2% allocation improving a 60/40 portfolio. VanEck, meanwhile, concedes capitulation buys have historically paid off only at the one-year mark.

The next few months will test whether Wall Street's Bitcoin era can soften the bottom it could not prevent.

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