Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund put Monday’s green line on the board. Farside Investors printed a +$137.3 million net inflow into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs on August 17, and FBTC supplied $111.9 million of that total. BlackRock’s IBIT, usually the column that decides the day, is still a dash.
Fidelity first, IBIT unpublished
The fund columns, left to right. FBTC created +$111.9 million. ARK 21Shares’ ARKB created +$14.2 million. Morgan Stanley’s MSBT created +$11.2 million, the same print as Farside’s MSBT post. Bitwise’s BITB, Invesco, Franklin, Valkyrie, VanEck, WisdomTree, and both Grayscale lines printed 0.0. IBIT is marked -. On this table a dash means the cell has not been published, which is a different fact from a confirmed 0.0. FinanceFeeds, reading the same sheet, treats IBIT as unavailable rather than flat.
That is the reverse shape of Friday. Then IBIT redeemed −$55.5 million and almost the entire −$56.2 million session lived in one wrapper. Monday the biggest product has no printed flow, and the second-largest one did the creating.
FBTC also repaired its own week. The fund redeemed −$46.8 million on August 12, −$55.1 million on August 13, and −$6.8 million on Friday: $108.7 million out in three cash sessions. Monday’s $111.9 million creation covers that stretch for Fidelity and then a little more.
A Farside daily line is the authorized-participant window, the creations and redemptions of fund shares. It is a different tape from every IBIT or FBTC print on Nasdaq. Sum the three green columns and you get $137.3 million. Across August 12–14 the complex had taken out $248.4 million; Monday put back a bit more than half of that pile in a single cash session.
BlackRock’s IBIT product page is a separate book. Monday’s NAV printed $36.42, up $0.83 or 2.34%, with net assets about $48.0 billion. That NAV move follows the coin. It does not fill in the missing flow cell.
Ethereum products added a small companion line. Farside’s ETH table shows +$5.0 million on August 17: Fidelity’s FETH +$4.3 million, Bitwise’s ETHW +$0.7 million, and dashes in both BlackRock ETH columns. After Friday’s all-zero ETH sheet, Monday was a Fidelity day on that side too.
Weekend parked near $63k; Monday cleared $64.5k
Settled Crypto.com 1D closes draw the path. Friday August 14 locked $63,048.33. Saturday held $63,088.74 inside a $289 range. Sunday slipped to $62,900.42. Monday then ran $62,745.34–$64,637.60 and settled $64,539.91, about $1,492 above Friday and $1,639 above Sunday. The product table and the coin moved together.
Tuesday’s candle is still forming. BTC/USDT opened the UTC day on Monday’s settle and, as of about 14:37 UTC on August 18, last traded near $64,806 on Crypto.com Exchange, with the open session so far ranging about $64,035–$65,062. That Tuesday mark is intraday; the August 18 1D bar does not settle until 00:00 UTC. Ethereum settled Monday at $1,913.71 after Friday’s $1,882.21, and traded near $1,913 at the same snapshot.
Chart: Monday’s jump, Fear still under 50
The series pairs settled daily closes (and Tuesday’s still-forming candle) with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Price spent the weekend pinned near $63,000. Monday’s settle cleared $64,500 on the creation day. Tuesday has added a few hundred dollars more, tagging $65,062 before easing, while the mood gauge jumped ten points and stayed in Fear.
BTC price vs the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, August 11–18. Monday settled $64,540 after a $1,892 session range; Tuesday’s still-open candle is holding the upper-$64,000s. The August 18 point is an intraday read as of ~14:37 UTC, not a settled close. Sources: Crypto.com Exchange 1D candles and alternative.me.
The composite sat at 34 (Fear) on Saturday and Sunday, 31 on Monday, and 41 (still Fear) on Tuesday. A ten-point lift on a green product day is the largest step in this window, and it is still a Fear reading.
What Monday put back
From the August 3 reopen through Monday the complex is about $617.4 million net positive: the first week’s $865.3 million of creations, then August 10–14’s $385.2 million of net redemptions, then Monday’s +$137.3 million. Farside’s lifetime total sits near $52.0 billion.
Monday’s sheet is narrow. FBTC created $111.9 million, the complex printed +$137.3 million, IBIT’s cell is still a dash, bitcoin settled $64,540, and Tuesday is holding the upper-$64,000s with Fear at 41. A second creation day would thicken the restart. A redemption day would hand the $137.3 million back. The next Farside row settles that, not this page. This is a read of Monday’s print and the tape since then, not financial advice.
