Morgan Stanley’s new spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund has simply surpassed the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund (WBTC) in whole web inflows, regardless of launching simply over per week in the past.
The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Belief (MSBT) added $19.3 million of investor inflows on Wednesday, bringing its whole web influx to $103 million.
The determine has now handed WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund’s (WBTC) whole web influx of $86 million, which it had been accumulating since launching in January 2024, Farside Traders data reveals.
Extra asset managers want to push into the rising Bitcoin ETF area. On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs, a former crypto critic, filed with the SEC to launch its personal Bitcoin-linked ETF.
The Morgan Stanley spot Bitcoin ETF product launched on April 8 at a market-low charge of 0.14%, undercutting the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Belief ETF (BTC) by one base level.
It joined 11 different spot Bitcoin ETFs, together with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) — the present market chief with $64.3 billion in web inflows and the Constancy Smart Origin Bitcoin Fund at $10.9 billion.
MSBT’s different opponents embody Bitcoin ETFs issued by Bitwise, ARK 21Shares and Grayscale.
Persevering with momentum might additionally see Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF surpass Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF (BTCO), Valkyrie Bitcoin ETF (BRRR) and the Franklin Bitcoin ETF (EZBC), which have collected web inflows of $245 million, $326 million and $375 million, respectively.
The typical lifespan of ETFs is shrinking
A Bloomberg report from April 2 found that the common lifespan of ETFs fell from 4.66 years in 2024 to about 3.5 years in 2025.
Over 40 ETFs have additionally been liquidated within the first two months of 2026, although none of these embody any notable crypto ETFs.
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The ETFs that had been liquidated throughout the primary two months of 2026 had a median lifespan of 21 months, half that of the ETFs that had been liquidated in 2025.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart predicted in December that many crypto exchange-traded merchandise would be liquidated by the tip of 2027 because of an absence of demand.
On the time, over 126 ETP purposes had been awaiting an consequence from the SEC.
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