Donald Trump has returned to the presidency Created a wave of excitement In the digital asset market, with institutional investors making bold bets on cryptocurrencies like XRP and Solana. This trend has been noted by CoinShares digital asset fund Flow Weekly Report, Which represents a historic inflow of funds into the crypto market with total assets under management (AuM) now at a new all-time high.
Trump euphoria began to flow in record breaking fashion
It’s only a few weeks into 2025, but cryptocurrency-linked investment funds are already pulling in insane numbers that are a tease of what’s to come throughout the year. Crypto asset investment funds saw $2.2 billion inflows last week, the largest inflows so far this year, according to data from CoinShares. Specifically, this represents an increase of approximately 4,480% from the $48 million in net inflows of funds received last week.
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The huge increase in the flow of funds was due to the excitement surrounding the incoming administration of Donald Trump, which is a lot Expect to adapt Towards the crypto industry. The euphoria pushed the total AuM in crypto funds to $171 billion at the end of last week, which is also its highest value ever.
unexpectedly, Bitcoin was the best performer. In terms of flows, Bitcoin saw a net inflow of $1.9 billion, bringing its YTD total over three weeks to $2.7 billion. Bitcoin also saw an outflow of about $0.5 million from short positions, furthering the bullish sentiment.
The exit from short-bitcoin funds is surprising, given They receive income During price rallies, as shown by the flow in previous weeks. Trading volume on exchange-traded products (ETPs) also increased to $21 billion, which is 34% of Bitcoin’s trading volume on trusted exchanges.
Big players make big bets on XRP and Solana
XRP and Solana are two Amazing performers Between the normal flow. This is not surprising, since the news headlines were flying during the week that the Trump administration is likely Cryptocurrency is going to be preferred Made in the US like XRP and Solana.
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XRP continues to gain significant attention, recording $31 million in flows last week alone. Since mid-November 2024, XRP has amassed an impressive $484 million in total inflows. This flow shows that XRP has a Increasing appeal among institutional investors, That has been relayed by its price action over the past few months. XRP now trades itself Close to its all-time high of $3.40, recently touched an intraday high of $3.34 in the last 24 hours.
Solana’s funds also saw an inflow of $2.5 million last week. This is the number It is estimated that there will be a considerable increase in By the next report, given the success of the official Trump meme coin, which was launched on the Solana network.
Regionally, the United States dominated the investment with $2 billion, followed by Switzerland with $89 million and Canada with $13 million. Additionally, Ethereum saw an inflow of $246 million last week to reverse the earlier outflow. But, Ethereum is Still the poorest performer The fund is one of the leading assets in terms of inflows with an outflow of $28 million this year.
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