Emre Yumlu 
The year 2025 has marked a strong rebound for US-based crypto funds. After experiencing nearly $7 billion in outflows earlier this year, the market has fully recovered, logging five consecutive weeks of net inflows.
Year-to-Date Crypto Fund Inflows Surpass $7.5 Billion
In the past week alone, digital asset investment products received $785 million in fresh capital, bringing the year-to-date (YTD) total to over $7.5 billion. This trend highlights a renewed investor confidence in digital assets and the broader crypto market.
The United States led the inflows with $681 million, followed by Germany with $86.3 million and Hong Kong with $24.4 million.
Growing Institutional Appetite for US Crypto Funds
The surge in interest toward risk assets like crypto has been supported by a recent policy shift. On May 12, the US government announced a 90-day pause on additional import tariffs, including a 24% reduction for both the US and China.
Just one day after the announcement, 9,739 BTC (over $1 billion) were withdrawn from Coinbase — the largest single-day outflow of 2025 so far. Analysts interpret this as a sign that institutional interest is accelerating.
Ethereum Leads the Way, While Solana Sees Outflows
Ethereum-based investment products attracted the most capital last week, with $205 million in inflows. That pushed ETH’s total inflows in 2025 to more than $575 million.
This spike was largely driven by the recent Pectra upgrade, which went live on May 7, and the appointment of Tomasz Stańczak as the new co-executive director. The upgrade introduced key improvements, including increased staking limits and account abstraction through EIP-7702.
In contrast, Solana products experienced $890,000 in outflows, making it the only major asset to post negative flows last week.
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Decentralization-Boosting Upgrade
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has put forward a new proposal aimed at strengthening the network’s decentralized and censorship-resistant nature. His plan focuses on making Ethereum’s layer-1 infrastructure more accessible to users running their own local nodes.
The proposal could drastically reduce the current 1.3TB data requirement, enabling nodes to sync only relevant data. This would lower barriers to entry and encourage broader participation in the Ethereum ecosystem.
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