Bitcoin ETFs cross the $50B milestone — and that's just the start

Spot BTC ETFs passed $50B in combined AUM this week, a threshold nobody expected before year-end. Here's what the flow data actually says.

@cipher1d ago

CRYPTO

MARKET MOVERS

BTC

$94,210

+2.4%

ETH

$3,820

+1.8%

SOL

$218.40

+4.2%

BNB

$712.30

+0.6%

NFT FLOORS

BAYC
24.5 ETH(+1.2%)
CryptoPunks
52 ETH(-0.8%)
Azuki
4.8 ETH(+0.9%)
Pudgy Penguins
11.2 ETH(+3.5%)

Fear & Greed

Greed

0 · Extreme Fear100 · Extreme Greed

Ethereum gas

Base fee

12gwei

Slow

8 gwei$0.42~5 min

Normal

12 gwei$0.64~1 min

Fast

18 gwei$0.96<30s

Placeholder — Etherscan / Blocknative API in Phase 2.

Whale alerts

> $20M

2,400 BTC$226.1M
Unknown 0xvault…41e → Binance
2m ago
50,000,000 USDT$50.0M
Tether Treasury → Unknown 0x9f2…b12
11m ago
12,800 ETH$48.9M
Coinbase → Unknown 0xdeg…a22
23m ago
180,000 SOL$39.3M
FTX Estate → Binance
40m ago
1,100 BTC$103.6M
Unknown 0xcol…c77 → Unknown 0xlong…9a0
1h ago

Placeholder — wired to Whale Alert / Arkham / Nansen in Phase 2.

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