Ethereum Outpaces Bitcoin & XRP in This Metric: ETH Price to Hit ATH?

Key Insights:

• Ethereum leads crypto investment inflows with $321 million, outpacing Bitcoin and XRP.
• ETH records the strongest 6-week performance since December 2024 with $1.19 billion total.
• Bitcoin experiences its first outflows in six weeks, while XRP continues its negative trend.

Ethereum has outperformed Bitcoin and XRP in digital asset investment flows. It has recorded $321 million in weekly inflows compared to Bitcoin’s $8 million in outflows and XRP’s continued decline.

The strong Ethereum performance comes as total digital asset products attracted $286 million in weekly inflows. This brings the seven-week total to $10.9 billion despite overall market volatility.

Ethereum Dominates Weekly Flows While Bitcoin Reverses Course

Ethereum has taken the lead in cryptocurrency investment flows and recorded $321 million in weekly inflows, marking its strongest performance in six consecutive weeks since December 2024. This brings Ethereum’s total inflows during this period to $1.19 billion. This shows a decisive improvement in investor sentiment toward the second-largest cryptocurrency.

The strong Ethereum performance contrasts sharply with Bitcoin’s trajectory during the same period. Bitcoin began the week with strong inflows but experienced a mid-week reversal following a New York Court decision declaring US tariffs as illegal.

This led to Bitcoin ending the week with minor outflows of $8 million. This also marks the first outflows after a six consecutive week run that had generated $9.6 billion in total inflows.

XRP continued its negative trend with $28.2 million in outflows, and it is the second consecutive week of investor withdrawals from XRP investment products. The month-to-date data shows XRP with $56.6 million in outflows, which brought its year-to-date flows to $198 million despite the recent weakness.

Other cryptocurrencies showed mixed results, with Solana posting $1.5 million in weekly inflows, Sui recording $2.2 million, and Cardano adding $0.1 million. Multi-asset products faced $2.4 million in outflows, while Chainlink managed $0.8 million in positive flows. Short Bitcoin products recorded $3.6 million in outflows.

Regional Investment Patterns Show Diversified Global Interest

Investment flows showed geographic diversification beyond the traditional US leadership. But the United States was still at the top of the list with $199 million of weekly inflows. But several other regions reported significant activity that suggests growing pan-international demand for digital asset investment products.

Germany contributed $42.9 million of weekly inflows during the week, with Australia contributing $21.5 million to the global total. Hong Kong had a very high performance with $54.8 million of weekly inflows.

Switzerland was one of the few regions to register outflows, with $32.8 million exiting digital asset investment products. Switzerland is therefore in a net outflow position year to date.

Month-to-date data reflect ongoing regional interest, with the United States reporting $6.074 billion, Germany reporting $215.1 million, and Hong Kong reporting $138.1 million. Canada reported $21.1 million in monthly outflows despite weekly positive flows, and Sweden experienced ongoing negative flows at $45.6 million in monthly outflows.

Strong Ethereum Flows Raise Prospects For New All-Time Highs

Ethereum’s steady rate of inflow has positioned the cryptocurrency for potential price appreciation that could challenge historic all-time highs. There has been speculation that the Ethereum price could push past $4,000.

The $1.19 billion aggregate over six straight weeks of inflow demonstrates institutional conviction that, in the past, has led to meaningful price action in cryptocurrency markets.

The trend of inflows now is not typical of the typical market cycles, where Bitcoin drives institutional investment flows. The ability of Ethereum to attract $321 million of inflows weekly when Bitcoin experienced outflows shows shifting investor preferences in favor of the second-largest cryptocurrency.

Ethereum product AUM was $14.338 billion in assets under management, and total digital asset AUM at $177.158 billion after falling from the previous $187 billion peak because of market volatility. The MTD flows report Ethereum at $889.5 million as opposed to $5.519 billion for Bitcoin.

However, US tariff uncertainty has been making market volatility produce headwinds for all digital assets. The downtrend in aggregate AUM to all-time highs indicates that macroeconomic forces might be constraining near-term price appreciation even as flows have been strong.

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