Bitcoin ETFs Finish Week Up About $301M, Snapping Two-Week Losing Streak
By Satoshi’s Wire
October 26, 2026
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs closed the week in the green after a late slide — a weekly tape fact that sits above Friday’s single-session print. Decrypt’s ETF tracker puts the week’s net inflow near $301 million, enough to snap a two-week losing streak even after Friday’s about $137.9 million exit. That Friday outflow was the second straight down day; the two-day slide totaled about $773.5 million and chewed into a roughly $1.07 billion inflow run from Monday through Wednesday. The weekly wrap is the new desk number — not a rehash of the Friday-only chapter.
October still looks red on the monthly ledger. Decrypt says the Bitcoin funds remain down about $314 million for the month after Thursday’s about $635.6 million exit — the largest October session print in that tracker — flipped a brief midweek monthly green back to red. Cumulative net inflows still sit near $57.6 billion, with about $100.2 billion in total net assets. Ether funds eked out about $4.4 million Friday but lost roughly $221 million on the week and about $1.18 billion for October. Solana ETFs logged no net Friday flow after an about $8.9 million Thursday exit and sit down about $68 million for the month. Attribute those figures to Decrypt’s wrap; they are tracker tallies, not issuer NAV filings restated here.
Spot price action into the weekend matched a cautious tape. Bitcoin slipped about 1.1% over 24 hours to roughly $80,490 on Saturday and about 1.2% on the week, per CoinGecko figures cited in the same wrap. Ethereum fell about 2.6% to roughly $2,344, Solana about 2.8% to about $101, and total crypto market cap about 1.2% to about $2.79 trillion. Decrypt ties the risk-off tone to midweek pressure when oil traded above $111 a barrel and AI equities slid — backdrop, not a causal proof that ETF flows alone set BTC.
Prediction-market odds hardened on the downside into month-end. On Myriad — a prediction market developed by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, so treat the print as related-desk color — traders priced a 43% chance Bitcoin drops to $77,500 before October ends, up from 32% a day earlier, and an 18% chance of $75,000. Odds of topping $87,500 fell to 10% from 17%. Solana’s path to $160 before $40 sat near 51.6%, down from 54.9%; Ethereum’s odds of $3,000 before $1,500 held near 61.3%. Those are market prices on an affiliated venue, not forecasts from this desk.
For NFT and crypto settlement desks, the useful read is institutional flow shape, not a floor call. A weekly Bitcoin ETF green after a two-week red streak can still sit inside a red October and beside Ether’s much deeper monthly drain — so do not collapse $301 million into a risk-on all-clear for ETH collateral or NFT bids. Spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs remain the main brokerage rails that move large tickets without a self-custody hop, which is why weekly creation and redemption tallies still matter when collectors price ETH-settled secondary tape. This desk’s prior Friday chapter covered the $137.9 million single-day exit; tonight’s beat is the week that still closed positive after that slide. Keep the cumulative $57.6 billion and $100.2 billion AUM figures as stock context, not as proof that next week’s creations will repeat, and do not treat Solana’s quieter monthly $68 million deficit as a substitute for Bitcoin’s weekly print.
Tape watch: Watch Monday’s first issuer-reported Bitcoin ETF flow print after the ~$301 million weekly green, whether October’s about $314 million monthly Bitcoin deficit narrows or widens, and whether Ether’s about $1.18 billion October hole keeps diverging from Bitcoin’s weekly recovery.
Bottom line: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week up about $301 million — snapping a two-week losing streak — even after Friday’s about $137.9 million outflow, while October Bitcoin flows remain about $314 million in the red and Ether’s October hole sits near $1.18 billion.
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