Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin fund overtakes WisdomTree after 6 trading days

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Morgan Stanley’s caller spot Bitcoin exchange-traded money has conscionable surpassed the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund (WBTC) successful full nett inflows, contempt launching conscionable implicit a week ago. 

The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) added $19.3 cardinal of capitalist inflows connected Wednesday, bringing its full nett inflow to $103 million.

The fig has present passed WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund’s (WBTC) full nett inflow of $86 million, which it had been accumulating since launching successful January 2024, Farside Investors data shows. 

More plus managers are looking to propulsion into the increasing Bitcoin ETF space. On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs, a erstwhile crypto critic, filed with the SEC to motorboat its ain Bitcoin-linked ETF. 

Flow information for the US spot Bitcoin ETFs since March 30. Source: Farside Investors

The Morgan Stanley spot Bitcoin ETF product launched connected April 8 astatine a market-low interest of 0.14%, undercutting the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF (BTC) by 1 basal point. 

It joined 11 different spot Bitcoin ETFs, including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) — the existent marketplace person with $64.3 cardinal successful nett inflows and the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund astatine $10.9 billion.

MSBT’s different competitors see Bitcoin ETFs issued by Bitwise, ARK 21Shares and Grayscale.

Continuing momentum could besides spot Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF surpass Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF (BTCO), Valkyrie Bitcoin ETF (BRRR) and the Franklin Bitcoin ETF (EZBC), which person accumulated nett inflows of $245 million, $326 cardinal and $375 million, respectively. 

The mean lifespan of ETFs is shrinking

A Bloomberg study from April 2 found that the mean lifespan of ETFs fell from 4.66 years successful 2024 to astir 3.5 years successful 2025.

Over 40 ETFs person besides been liquidated successful the archetypal 2 months of 2026, though nary of those see immoderate notable crypto ETFs. 

Related: Bitcoin ETFs could yet beryllium larger than golden ETFs: Analyst

The ETFs that were liquidated crossed the archetypal 2 months of 2026 had an mean lifespan of 21 months, fractional that of the ETFs that were liquidated successful 2025.

Bloomberg ETF expert James Seyffart predicted successful December that galore crypto exchange-traded products would beryllium liquidated by the extremity of 2027 owed to a deficiency of demand.

At the time, implicit 126 ETP applications were awaiting an result from the SEC.

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