Bitcoin crossed $78,000 on a news-driven spike but April 21 ETF data showed just $11.84M in net inflows, with BlackRock carrying almost the entire positive side alone.
Key takeaways:
BTC hit intraday high of $78,452 on April 22.
RSI spiked to 72.26: overbought, signal line at 55.15.
Move triggered by Trump’s Iran ceasefire extension.
Total ETF net inflow April 21: just $11.84M.
BlackRock IBIT led with $39.34M.
Fidelity, Grayscale GBTC, Bitwise, Ark all recorded outflows.
Strip out IBIT and the ETF market was net negative on the day.
Bitcoin pushed through $78,000 in the early hours of April 22, reaching an intraday high of $78,452 on a sharp move that produced the largest hourly volume spike visible across the previous 48 hours.
The catalyst was Trump’s ceasefire extension announcement with Iran. RSI hit 72.26 on the 1-hour chart, overbought territory, with the signal line still sitting at 55.15, meaning momentum moved faster than the underlying trend had built.
The ETF data from SoSoValue for April 21 adds context the price chart alone doesn’t provide.
Total net inflows across all US spot Bitcoin ETFs on April 21 came to just $11.84 million. BlackRock’s IBIT led with $39.34M, Morgan Stanley’s MSBT contributed $10.80M, and Grayscale’s BTC product added $17.26M.
But those inflows were largely cancelled out by outflows elsewhere, Fidelity’s FBTC shed $6.55M, Grayscale’s legacy GBTC lost $17.51M, Bitwise saw $12.70M leave, and Ark & 21Shares recorded $14.52M in outflows.
One major player, BlackRock, carried almost the entire positive side of the ledger. Strip out IBIT and the ETF market was net negative on the day Bitcoin was building toward its $78,000 move.
That is a thin institutional foundation for a push to a monthly high. Whether it holds depends on whether the ETF flow picture broadens in the sessions that follow, or whether BlackRock remains the only institution adding while others continue to reduce.
