Thursday outran Wednesday. Farside Investors printed a +$606.3 million net inflow into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs on August 20, and BlackRock’s IBIT created $503.0 million of that row. On Crypto.com Exchange the 1D candle for Thursday ran $68,902.60–$73,410.93 and settled $73,026.02.
IBIT did most of the sheet
Walk the columns. IBIT +$503.0 million. Fidelity’s FBTC +$64.7 million, posted as $64.7 million. Bitwise’s BITB +$26.4 million. ARK 21Shares’ ARKB +$12.2 million. Invesco’s BTCO +$3.6 million. VanEck’s HODL redeemed −$3.6 million, the only red print. Franklin, Valkyrie, WisdomTree, Morgan Stanley, GBTC, and the mini BTC printed 0.0. Farside’s bundled card matches the live table: 606.3 net, IBIT 503, HODL −3.6. CoinGlass, reading the same session, shows +$606.30 million and about 8,750 BTC.
Add the five green columns and you get $609.9 million of creations against HODL’s $3.6 million redemption. IBIT is 83 percent of the net. That is a tighter tape than Wednesday, when the same product did 55 percent of a $517.2 million sheet and eight issuers created. Thursday’s mix is one giant BlackRock cell, a Fidelity follow, two smaller greens, and a VanEck redemption that exactly offsets Invesco.
Ethereum products also printed their largest session of the week. Farside’s ETH table shows +$219.5 million. ETHA created $173.3 million. ETHB created $35.9 million. Fidelity’s FETH +$5.8 million, Bitwise’s ETHW +$2.8 million, VanEck’s ETHV +$1.7 million. The other five ETH funds printed 0.0. The ETH total card matches 219.5. ETHA is 79 percent of that net, the same concentration pattern as IBIT.
Four cash days, $1.61 billion
Monday is +$297.5 million, revised up from the $137.3 million first print once Farside published IBIT’s cell for that session. Tuesday is +$189.3 million. Wednesday is +$517.2 million. Thursday is +$606.3 million. Four sessions: $1,610.3 million. That covers the August 10–14 stretch of $385.2 million in net redemptions more than four times, and it sits on top of the first week’s $865.3 million of creations. From the August 3 reopen through Thursday the complex is about $2,090.4 million net positive. Farside’s lifetime total is $53.47 billion.
Thursday is the largest daily print of August, ahead of Wednesday’s $517.2 million. Four ETH sessions in the same window add $508.6 million.
BlackRock’s IBIT product page put Thursday’s NAV at $41.09, up $2.41 or 6.22 percent, with net assets about $54.8 billion. The Nasdaq close was $41.20 on 108.2 million shares, a lighter secondary tape than Wednesday’s 140.8 million. Creations and share volume are different clocks: authorized participants minted a larger IBIT cell on a day when the listed stock actually traded fewer shares. The benchmark on that page, the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate New York Variant, printed $72,574.42. That NY cash fix sits under Crypto.com’s UTC 1D settle of $73,026.02. The coin kept running after the cash close.
Thursday locked $73K; Friday is still open
Settled 1D closes on Crypto.com mark the two large product days. Wednesday August 19 locked $69,337.54 after tagging $70,074.72. Thursday opened on that print, tagged $73,410.93, and settled $73,026.02, about $3,689 above Wednesday. Ethereum settled Wednesday at $2,253.00 and Thursday at $2,326.60.
Friday’s candle is still forming. BTC/USDT opened the UTC day at Thursday’s settle and, as of about 09:34 UTC on August 21, last traded near $77,924 on Crypto.com Exchange, after a session high of $79,525.99. The open session so far has ranged $73,014.49–$79,525.99. That Friday last is intraday, not a close. The August 21 1D candle stays open until 00:00 UTC. Ethereum traded near $2,395 at the same snapshot, after a session high of $2,448.60.
The series pairs settled daily closes (and Friday’s still-forming candle) with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Price left the $64,000s on Wednesday, Thursday locked the $73,000s, and Friday’s open session has pushed into the high $70,000s while the mood gauge moved further into Greed.
BTC price vs the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, August 14–21. Thursday settled $73,026 after tagging $73,411. Friday’s still-open candle is an intraday read as of ~09:34 UTC, not a settled close. Sources: Crypto.com Exchange 1D candles and alternative.me.
The composite climbed from 46 (Fear) on Wednesday to 62 on Thursday and 72 on Friday, both Greed. Monday was still 31.
Thursday’s $606.3 million is already in Farside’s table. Friday’s last on Crypto.com will keep moving until 00:00 UTC. None of the figures above is a reason to buy or sell.
