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Milestone for Crypto Market: Bitcoin ETFs break $40 billion for Lifetime Flows

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  • Bitcoin ETFs have set a new historic record in the crypto market with lifetime inflows exceeding $40 billion.
  • Growth in Bitcoin ETFs is slow but steady and this is a sign for increasing confidence from retail and institutional investors.
  • Such adoption of Bitcoin ETFs by institutions is democratizing crypto into conventional financial systems.

Bitcoin has reached another important milestone on its path towards mainstream financial usage. According to a well-known ETF analyst James Seyffart from Bloomberg, spot Bitcoin ETFs now have a total lifetime inflow of $40 billion. 

That is, since these investment products were introduced, more than $40 billion has found its way into them from investors. This is believed to be  an expression of increasing confidence and interest in Bitcoin from retail and institutional investors.

Seyffart made this update on X (formerly known as Twitter) that after fresh inflows on the 8th of May, 2025 the total cumulative inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs spiked to the record breaking $40.33bn. 

This percentage reflects that despite the kinks of the market, people continue to buy in Bitcoin via regulated investment mediums. 

Bitcoin ETFs Inflow Proves the Confidence of the Investors.

An accompanying chart in the post depicts the constant increase in Bitcoin ETFs inflows. Early on, in March 2024, overall inflows were close to $12 billion. By August 2024, they were up to $18.07 billion and by March 2025, to $34.77 billion.

Two months later, they’ve now crossed the $40 billion threshold. This increasing trend indicates the continued popularity that these ETFs have enjoyed in making people invest in Bitcoin.

The increasing inflows into the Bitcoin ETFs are also being interpreted as a sign of increased institutional adoption. These ETFs are making large financial firms, hedge funds, and asset managers Bitcoin buyers, thus pushing the inflows to peak. 

According to experts, this increase in institutional presence in the crypto market can bring with it greater legitimacy and stability to the crypto market. 

Many crypto enthusiasts went online in reaction to the post. Notably, one user commented saying that “Bitcoin is mogging”, taking slang to mean that Bitcoin is winning the race or dominating the market.

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Ripple Acquisition Fails to Help XRP; Price Falls by 3%

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  • Even after Ripple spent $1.25 billion to acquire prime brokerage service company Hidden Road, XRP fell over 2%.
  • Ripple aims to bring XRP Ledger and RLUSD into global brokerage services.
  • XRP’s price was also affected by a broader crypto sell-off attributable to economic tensions and the new U.S. tariffs.

Ripple made headlines with a major acquisition, yet XRP’s price declined by 3% to $1.83 on April 9, 2025. In one of the biggest crypto deals ever, the company announced that it had purchased prime brokerage firm Hidden Road for the staggering sum of $1.25 billion.

According to Ripple, the move places it as the first crypto company to run a global, multi-asset prime broker. Today, Hidden Road’s platform comprises more than $3 trillion in trades annually and over 300 institutional clients.

Ripple Envision Integrating Crypto With the Traditional Financial Sector

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse doesn’t just see the price tag of the acquisition as something important; he sees it as an opportunity to connect crypto to traditional finance on a large scale. 

He added that Hidden Road will make trades faster and more efficient while benefiting from the processing times of traditional banks. Across its brokerage services, both in crypto and conventional finance, Ripple will use its stablecoin, RLUSD, as collateral.

Garlinghouse also noted that Hidden Road, with Ripple’s help, is expected to grow exponentially and might become the biggest non-bank prime broker in the world. This development comes in the midst of significant growth in crypto adoption in the U.S., given that the regulatory climate is almost clear now after some changes at the SEC.

The Broader Sell-off Impact on XRP

Surprisingly, XRP was not really helped by the good news. XRP price remains 3% down in the last 24 hours, as the broader cryptocurrency market cap declined almost 4% in one day.

Analysts believe the broader sell-off is based on global economic tensions and concerns due to recent actions by President Donald Trump, including a steep 104% tariff on Chinese imports.

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XRP chart. Source: CoinGecko

Today, XRP’s 24-hour trading volume is $6.45 billion, with the price fluctuating between $1.73 and $1.97 within the same period, as portrayed by data from CoinGecko. Its total market cap was $106.4 billion, and it had around 58.3 billion tokens in circulation as of the time of writing.

This year, XRP remains among the best-performing digital assets, even though it’s now down about 50% from the $2.82 peak it achieved in February 2025.