US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded a small net inflow of $21.1 million on Friday 9 October 2026, the first positive session after two days in which $729 million left the group, according to Farside Investors’ daily table (Farside Investors, bitcoin ETF flow table). BlackRock’s IBIT added $22.4 million; Fidelity’s FBTC, which had lost $302.2 million over the previous two sessions, was almost flat at −$3.6 million. For October so far, the group is at −$386.3 million, an improvement from −$407.4 million after Thursday. Bitcoin closed Friday at $82,545 on Coinbase and was $82,958 early on Sunday.
The numbers are small by the standards of this market, and a single $21 million day does not reverse anything. What the table shows is a change in who is selling. For most of the week IBIT was the buyer of last resort and FBTC the seller; on Friday both went quiet.
The daily table
| Date (2026) | IBIT | FBTC | GBTC | All US spot funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct | +195.6 | −60.7 | −31.4 | +102.7 |
| 2 Oct | +158.2 | +29.3 | 0.0 | +189.9 |
| 5 Oct | +69.9 | −74.5 | 0.0 | −89.8 |
| 6 Oct | +122.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +118.8 |
| 7 Oct | −207.7 | −105.1 | −39.3 | −484.9 |
| 8 Oct | −5.5 | −197.1 | −8.2 | −244.1 |
| 9 Oct | +22.4 | −3.6 | 0.0 | +21.1 |
| October to date | +354.9 | −411.7 | −78.9 | −386.3 |
US$ millions, from Farside Investors. Parentheses in the source denote outflows. The All-funds column is Farside’s own total; the October row for each fund is the desk’s sum of the seven sessions shown (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 October). Daily figures can be revised after publication.
Three readings of the week
First, the split between funds is wide. Over seven sessions IBIT has taken in $354.9 million while FBTC has lost $411.7 million and GBTC, the former Grayscale trust, $78.9 million. Together those three funds are at −$135.7 million; the remaining −$250.6 million, which is the desk’s subtraction of the three named columns from Farside’s total, comes from the other funds in the group. In other words, the month’s net outflow is not mainly about BlackRock. FBTC alone, at −$411.7 million, is larger than the whole group’s net. The desk made the same point after Thursday in its previous flows update, when FBTC stood at −$408.1 million.
Second, the damage was concentrated in two days. The sessions of 7 and 8 October took out $484.9 million and $244.1 million, a combined $729.0 million, which is more than the whole October net outflow. The first four sessions of the month had taken in $321.6 million (the desk reported $321.5 million at the time, in its first-four-sessions update; the difference is rounding in the source). Take away the two bad days and October would be positive by about $342.7 million, which is a useful reminder that monthly flow totals can be dominated by a handful of sessions.
Third, the timing matters. The 7 and 8 October outflows came while the Federal Reserve’s minutes and Treasury yields near multi-decade highs were in the headlines, and on Thursday 8 October bitcoin traded down to a daily low of $80,315. On Friday, bitcoin recovered to close at $82,545. The desk does not claim that the flows caused the price move or the reverse: both can respond to the same news. What the table records is that selling through the funds slowed as the price stabilised.
What a Friday inflow does and does not tell you
- It does not end the outflow trend. The group has had three outflow sessions in seven and four inflow sessions, and the two biggest sessions of the period were both outflows.
- It does suggest the selling was event-driven. Two heavy days clustered around a macro news cycle look different from a steady drip of redemptions.
- It is a thin day. A $21.1 million total is a rounding error against the single-day moves earlier in the week; one more session in either direction would change the tone.
- Friday numbers can be revised. Daily flow figures are sometimes adjusted after publication; the desk carries the revised figures when they appear.
The tape to watch next
The next data points are Monday’s flows, published after the US close, and the response of the funds around Wednesday 14 October at 12:30 UTC, when September CPI is released (the desk’s weekend range analysis today asks whether the quiet weekend means anything for that: it does not appear to). The desk’s weekly-close piece, Bitcoin Ends the Week 2.3% Lower at $82,545, lists the rest of the week’s calendar. The questions for the flow table are simple: does IBIT keep taking in money while FBTC and the others stop selling, and does a CPI surprise in either direction trigger a repeat of the 7 October pattern?
Readers who want to understand what a fund share actually represents — who holds the bitcoin, and what the creation and redemption process does to these flow numbers — can read the desk’s guide What Do You Actually Own When You Buy a Bitcoin ETF?.
Sources: Farside Investors, bitcoin ETF daily flow table (retrieved 11 October 2026, covering sessions to 9 October); Coinbase Exchange candles; Bitcoin Mastery earlier flow updates linked above. Derived figures (fund sums, “other funds”, and the ex-two-days figure) are the desk’s arithmetic on the Farside data.
Method: bitcoin and ether prices, highs, lows and closes are Coinbase Exchange candles (UTC day or UTC hour) pulled by Bitcoin Mastery at about 06:15 UTC on Sunday 11 October 2026; the 11 October candle is still open at that time, so any closing figure quoted is the 10 October close unless stated. Third-party figures are attributed to their source and date.
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