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XRP ETFs Pull In $63 Million as Bitcoin and Ethereum See Outflows
09 Feb 2026, 04:00
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XRP-linked ETFs attracted $63.1 million on February 9 even as Bitcoin and Ethereum funds recorded net outflows the same day.
XRP-linked exchange-traded funds pulled in $63.1 million on February 9, even as Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded net outflows on the same trading day, a notable divergence that highlighted growing institutional interest in XRP-specific investment products at a moment when sentiment toward the two largest cryptocurrencies had turned more cautious. The inflow figures came from a still-young category of XRP ETFs that had launched as part of a broader wave of altcoin-focused funds following the initial success of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot products.
The divergence in flows offered an early data point in a debate that had been building among crypto allocators: whether altcoin-specific ETFs could attract genuinely independent demand, separate from broader Bitcoin and Ethereum sentiment, or whether they would simply track the same macro-driven flows affecting the entire asset class. The February 9 data suggested at least some independent demand existed for XRP specifically, even during a period when the two largest cryptocurrencies were seeing capital move in the opposite direction.
The timing is notable given the broader market backdrop. Bitcoin had only recently pulled back from its early-January highs near $93,000, and would go on to fall much further in the crash below $60,000 that unfolded later in February. Against that volatile backdrop, XRP ETF inflows on a day when the market leaders saw redemptions suggested some investors were treating XRP exposure as a distinct allocation decision rather than simply a higher-beta way to express a broader bullish or bearish view on crypto overall.
Whether that pattern of relatively independent XRP ETF demand would persist through the more severe selloff that followed later in the month remained an open question, but the February 9 flow data offered an early signal that XRP-specific products had begun carving out their own distinct investor base within the broader crypto ETF ecosystem.
Fund managers running the XRP products noted that inflows came from a broad mix of investor types rather than being concentrated among a small number of large allocators, a detail they said pointed to genuinely diversified demand rather than a single institutional bet.
The divergence in flows offered an early data point in a debate that had been building among crypto allocators: whether altcoin-specific ETFs could attract genuinely independent demand, separate from broader Bitcoin and Ethereum sentiment, or whether they would simply track the same macro-driven flows affecting the entire asset class. The February 9 data suggested at least some independent demand existed for XRP specifically, even during a period when the two largest cryptocurrencies were seeing capital move in the opposite direction.
The timing is notable given the broader market backdrop. Bitcoin had only recently pulled back from its early-January highs near $93,000, and would go on to fall much further in the crash below $60,000 that unfolded later in February. Against that volatile backdrop, XRP ETF inflows on a day when the market leaders saw redemptions suggested some investors were treating XRP exposure as a distinct allocation decision rather than simply a higher-beta way to express a broader bullish or bearish view on crypto overall.
Whether that pattern of relatively independent XRP ETF demand would persist through the more severe selloff that followed later in the month remained an open question, but the February 9 flow data offered an early signal that XRP-specific products had begun carving out their own distinct investor base within the broader crypto ETF ecosystem.
Fund managers running the XRP products noted that inflows came from a broad mix of investor types rather than being concentrated among a small number of large allocators, a detail they said pointed to genuinely diversified demand rather than a single institutional bet.