Bitcoin (BTC) price is trading near $65,100 as Wall Street’s patience wears visibly thin, and the Bitcoin ETF data is starting to look ugly. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) weekly trading volume just hit its lowest level for a full five-session week since October 2024, clocking in at roughly $8.05 billion, a 14% drop from $9.37 billion the prior week.
That’s not a blip, it’s a trend. Citigroup moved first among major banks, slashing its 12-month Bitcoin target to $82,000 from $112,000 and its Ethereum target to $2,240 from $3,175, explicitly citing negative ETF flows and stalled U.S. digital asset legislation. Whether this is capitulation or a genuine pause defines the entire trade from here.
Can Bitcoin Recover From 2024-Low ETF Volume, or Is the Bull Run on Ice?
The volume collapse tells one story. The flow data tells a messier one. Bitcoin ETFs finished the recent week with just $33.8 million in net inflows, the softest of three consecutive positive weeks, following $75.7 million the week before and $197.4 million the week prior to that.
The deterioration is sharp. ETFs pulled in roughly $499.1 million across the first three sessions of the week before investors yanked $225.2 million on Thursday and another $240.1 million on Friday, nearly erasing the full week’s gains in 48 hours.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker: IBIT), the largest spot Bitcoin ETF by net assets, recorded $95.5 million in net outflows for the week after hemorrhaging a combined $414.7 million in just the final two sessions.
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust and the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF partially offset that with approximately $85.8 million and $78.1 million in inflows, respectively, not nearly enough to plug the gap.
Citi’s analysts wrote that the “absence of a catalyst for increased investor interest” led them to assume no net ETF inflows over the next 12 months. That’s a bold assumption.
Technically, Bitcoin is holding a contested support zone in the mid-$50,000s, near Citi’s bear-case target of $53,000, while the $80,000–$82,000 band now functions as medium-term resistance under Citi’s revised base case. The bull scenario requires re-accelerating ETF inflows and meaningful progress on U.S. crypto legislation; the bear case is a macro-driven recession that pushes BTC toward $53,000.
Not everyone is folding. Bernstein characterized the ETF slowdown as a “short-term pause” and held its $150,000 BTC target for end-2025, arguing the structural bull run remains intact. That’s a wide spread of opinion for sophisticated desks to carry simultaneously (make of that what you will).
Ethereum is in a similar bind: ETH is quoted near $1,570, bracketed by Citi’s bear-case floor of $1,094 and base-case target of $2,240. Notably, Ether ETFs drew $103.9 million in net inflows last week, more than three times the Bitcoin ETFs’ total, despite holding roughly one-eighth the net assets. That relative outperformance is worth watching.
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Bitcoin Hyper Targets Early-Stage Upside as BTC Tests Structural Support
Spot BTC at $58,400 with flat ETF flows and a slashed Wall Street target offers a defined risk range, but the upside to Citi’s base case of $82,000 still represents roughly 40% from current levels.
The problem: that return is spread across 12 months, carries macro risk on both sides, and lands in an asset with hundreds of billions in market cap already priced in. Early-stage infrastructure plays on Bitcoin’s own ecosystem can compress that timeline, and that’s the thesis behind Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER).
Bitcoin Hyper is positioning as the first Bitcoin Layer 2, a secondary network that processes transactions off Bitcoin’s main chain to increase speed and reduce fees, with integrated Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) support, enabling fast, programmable smart contracts directly within Bitcoin’s security model.
The project claims sub-Solana latency via its Layer 2 architecture and includes a Decentralized Canonical Bridge for native BTC transfers.
The presale has raised $32,982,915.68 at a current price of $0.0136837, with staking available at a high APY (specific rate undisclosed at this stage). Presale-stage assets carry significant risk: liquidity is limited, the project is unproven at scale, and Layer 2 execution risk is real.
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