{"id":609565,"date":"2026-06-04T20:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/professional-investors-dumped-52k-btc-worth-of-etfs-in-q1-filings-show\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:52:48","slug":"professional-investors-dumped-52k-btc-worth-of-etfs-in-q1-filings-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/professional-investors-dumped-52k-btc-worth-of-etfs-in-q1-filings-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional investors dumped 52K BTC worth of ETFs in Q1, filings show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US spot Bitcoin ETF ownership shifted during the market downturn as hedge funds exited positions, while banks and long-term allocators continued building exposure.<\/p>\n

Professional ownership of US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) declined sharply in the first quarter as Bitcoin\u2019s bear market deepened, suggesting that trading-oriented institutions were a significant source of selling pressure during the downturn.<\/p>\n

A new report<\/a> by CoinShares analyzing quarterly 13F filings \u2014 regulatory disclosures that reveal the equity holdings of investment managers with at least $100 million in assets \u2014 found that professional investors reduced their Bitcoin ETF exposure to 261,000 BTC from 313,000 BTC in the first quarter, a 17% decline.<\/p>\n

The combined value of those holdings fell 35% to $17.8 billion, while the share of total US Bitcoin ETF assets held by 13F filers declined to 20.8% from 24.7%.<\/p>\n

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US spot Bitcoin ETF ownership shifted during the market downturn as hedge funds exited positions, while banks and long-term allocators continued building exposure. Professional ownership of US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) declined sharply in the first quarter as Bitcoin\u2019s bear market deepened, suggesting that trading-oriented institutions were a significant source of selling pressure during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-609565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}