PANews June 6 news, according to Cointelegraph, institutional holdings of Bitcoin ETF assets experienced their first quarterly decline in the first quarter of 2025, with the total scale dropping from $27.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024 to $21.2 billion, a decrease of 23%. CoinShares reported that this was mainly due to an 11% drop in Bitcoin prices during the quarter, rather than large-scale sell-offs.
It is worth noting that financial advisors have increased their holdings in Bitcoin ETFs against the trend, while most asset management institutions have reduced their positions. During the same period, companies continued to include Bitcoin on their balance sheets, with publicly listed companies holding a total of 1.98 million BTC by the end of the quarter, an 18.6% increase since the beginning of the year. Among them, Strategy Company had increased its holdings continuously for 17 out of 20 weeks up to June, purchasing 15,355 BTC in a single day on April 28. Analysts believe that rising U.S. Treasury yields may weaken the appeal of traditional safe-haven assets, or provide support for Bitcoin's long-term trend.
