{"id":355766,"date":"2021-10-21T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bitcoin-futures-etf-hits-1b-aum-in-a-record-breaking-two-days\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:24:53","slug":"bitcoin-futures-etf-hits-1b-aum-in-a-record-breaking-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-futures-etf-hits-1b-aum-in-a-record-breaking-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bitcoin futures ETF hits $1B AUM in a record-breaking two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bitcoin futures ETF hits $1B AUM in a record-breaking two days <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMTAvYjgxN2MzMjgtMjAxZS00YmJhLTgwYzgtMzJkYjVmZWMzZmFjLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Since the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF started trading this week, it has become the fastest fund ever to reach $1 billion in assets under management (AUM).<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated launch of the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund in the United States, BITO, has resulted in a number of milestone achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported that the fund was the quickest ever to reach a ten-figure AUM after just two days of trading. BITO easily surpassed the previous record holder, a gold-based fund with the ticker GLD, which took three days to hit the billion-dollar mark in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>He commented that this was \u201cpoetically apropos,\u201d presumably in reference to Bitcoin\u2019s store of value properties and comparison to digital gold. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RECORD BREAKER: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BITO&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BITO<\/a> assets up to $1.1b after today, making it the fastest ETF to get to $1b (2 days) breaking $GLD\u2019s 18yr old record (3 days), which is poetically apropos. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yGXyfwaogD\">https:\/\/t.co\/yGXyfwaogD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1450930780289519619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Balchunas exclaimed \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like this. I bet ProShares is even shocked,\u201d while retweeting a post by Bloomberg Intelligence research analyst, James Seyffart, who<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSeyff\/status\/1450937829069139971\"> updated<\/a> the original chart.<\/p>\n<p>Balchunas<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1450996371629166600\"> commented<\/a> that there may not be any contracts left to buy if this volume continues, referring to a post by ETFStore President Nate Geraci stating that nearly 45% of BITO exposure is now in November futures contracts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf $BITO keeps up this pace of inflows it won\u2019t have any futures left to buy by the end of the month due to pos [position] limits.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ProShares fund also broke the record for the highest-ever first day of organic volume which hit $1 billion on Oct. 19 when it launched. More than 24 million shares were traded during its debut day and since the ETF went live, it has now traded more than $2 billion in volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related:<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF will likely launch next week as crypto prices reach ATHs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balchunas has predicted that the next Bitcoin futures fund launch will be on Friday. This is likely to be the Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF which is changing its ticker back to BTF in preparation. In crypto circles, the former ticker BTFD also referred to &#8220;buy the f*cking dip,&#8221; which may not have gone down too well with the SEC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had said this was launching tmrw it\u2019s actually going to be on Friday. sorry about that. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fqaGwjgscO\">https:\/\/t.co\/fqaGwjgscO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1450938425255813120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The momentum has driven Bitcoin prices to a new all-time high of $67,276 on Oct. 20 according to CoinGecko. 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The highly anticipated launch of the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund in the United States, BITO,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMTAvYjgxN2MzMjgtMjAxZS00YmJhLTgwYzgtMzJkYjVmZWMzZmFjLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,75849],"class_list":["post-355766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-etf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}