Crypto ETFs drew billions in Q3 while hacks took $1.26 billion
September lost $768.5 million across 99 incidents; CoinGecko put on-chain insurance capacity at $130.2 million, 20.2% below last year.
October 1
The ETPs & Funds Desk 5 stories this week · 17 total
Wrapper Watch
HANetf ETCs and HSBC's RedCoin list zero assets as Franklin, Goldman seek crypto cash
Eleven of fifteen placements tracked over Sept. 29–30 show nothing or under $500, while Franklin's $686 million money funds became pledgeable on Bybit and Goldman's FTIXX reached crypto firms through Lynq.
HANetf lists sterling- and euro-hedged bitcoin ETCs with HSBC as hedge counterparty
The Arrow products list in London, Frankfurt and Paris, and HANetf calls them the first currency-hedged crypto ETCs.
Spot bitcoin ETFs' seven-session, $3 billion run flips 2026 net flows positive
The streak erased a $1.96 billion year-to-date deficit and left the group's 2026 net at roughly $1.02 billion.
Solana spot ETFs take in a record $188 million as Bitwise's BSOL leads
All seven funds drew net inflows in the five sessions through Sept. 25, with BSOL collecting about $128 million of the total.
21Shares lists a physically backed Zcash ETP in Europe
A privacy coin gets a European wrapper; the share of supply actually using the privacy feature will determine whether the listing is a shelf extension or a one-off.
Ondo filed twice at zero; the money went to a manager
Four digital-asset wrappers filed empty in the same week the only funded digital-asset vehicle in the record raised $102.4 million.
Spot bitcoin ETFs' $1 billion day was a macro trade
The marginal buyer of these wrappers is reading oil and the Nasdaq, which makes the diversification pitch to platform gatekeepers harder to defend.
Washington didn't cause spot bitcoin ETFs' biggest day in eleven months
The largest inflow since October came after a Senate cloture loss and a Fed rate rise — and BlackRock, Ark and Fidelity took nine-tenths of it.
Ether ETFs shed $400 million as the token gains
Three sessions of redemptions in a rising ether market thin the funds' 30-day cushion to a quarter of the month's gain, while Zcash's single U.S. fund books its best session of the month.
The week's most telling filings were the two with nothing in them
Circle and a Tether-Aave-Avalanche-Anchorage vehicle registered with no assets, while Theo's $40 million silver lease book showed the funded version.
Bitcoin ETFs shed $450m as the rulebook turns revocable
With market-structure legislation dead for the year, spot bitcoin funds now trade on agency discretion, and their flows track the Senate calendar.
CME's ex-BTC index is a bridge to the altcoin ETP wave
The emerging index's 10% inception cap turns pending listing-standard compliance into a product roadmap.
Staking yield takes Bitwise's Solana ETF to $1 billion
Bitwise's staking wrapper crosses $1 billion in net assets and holds nearly 79% of cumulative flows across six Solana ETPs, setting the category's benchmark.
Grayscale's Zcash ETF filing puts privacy coin in surveillance wrapper
The conversion of the Zcash Trust into an NYSE fund forces the SEC to decide whether a token built to hide transactions can survive contact with a regulated product.
Neuberger Berman puts a credit fund on Securitize's rails
The filing landed just as Securitize reported record assets and shrinking fees, raising the question of who collects when the wrapper is a commodity.
Bitcoin ETFs see largest weekly outflow in six weeks
A three-day selling streak and sliding Clarity Act odds accompanied the $390 million exit; Solana ETFs were the exception.