{"id":602524,"date":"2026-05-27T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/?p=602524"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:46:51","slug":"bitcoin-how-1-29b-in-blackrock-ibit-trades-sparked-btc-etf-outflows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/bitcoin-how-1-29b-in-blackrock-ibit-trades-sparked-btc-etf-outflows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin: How $1.29B in BlackRock IBIT trades sparked BTC ETF outflows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlackRock, the biggest issuer of Bitcoin [BTC] ETFs, saw one of the largest capital outflows in its shares. BlackRock&#8217;s Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) has more than $66 billion in assets under management (AUM), nearly five times that of second-place Fidelity at $14 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the sale\u2019s impact was felt across both Bitcoin ETFs and BTC prices.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dark pool block trade hits BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to Bloomberg&#8217;s ETF analysts, Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinNewsCom\/status\/2059344478893138119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a massive dark pool block trade<\/a> hit BlackRock\u2019s IBIT shares.<\/p>\n<p>During the New York trading session, investors sold 29.2 million IBIT shares worth about $1.29 billion. At roughly $43 per share, this ranked among the largest institutional sales ever recorded. Despite the sell\u2011off, IBIT shares continued trading near the same levels.<\/p>\n<p>The volume traded during the session exceeded average daily IBIT turnover.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_602531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602531\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRa0nOXsAAj6hX.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-602531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRa0nOXsAAj6hX.png\" alt=\"BlackRock IBIT\" width=\"323\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRa0nOXsAAj6hX.png 323w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRa0nOXsAAj6hX-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-602531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: James Seyffart\/X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, some major players remained optimistic. Institutional traders accumulated nearly $1 million in IBIT call options expiring in December. This positioning signaled a long\u2011term bullish bias, even as the short\u2011term outlook stayed bearish.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bitcoin ETFs&#8217; capital flows<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For instance, BlackRock&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin<\/a> ETF saw a net outflow of 2,537 BTC valued at $192.34 million. This outflow meant IBIT had seen a 7-day streak with 90-day trading volume reaching $3.6 billion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_602528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602528\" style=\"width: 2494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-602528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin ETFs BTC ETFs IBIT\" width=\"2494\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am.jpg 2494w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am-1536x692.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am-2048x923.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJS6uHqbMAA63Am-1200x541.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2494px) 100vw, 2494px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-602528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other Bitcoin ETFs that saw outflows were those of Grayscale, Fidelity, and Bitwise, with 534 BTC, 746 BTC, and 372 BTC leaving, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In total, BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT share sale resulted in outflows of 4.32K BTC valued at $324 million. The total daily trading volume was at $6.07 billion.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Has Bitcoin absorbed the sell pressure?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On the charts, immediately after BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT shares sale, Bitcoin&#8217;s price fell from around $78,000 to $76,500. BTC fell below the 50-day Moving Average (DMA), but bulls are fighting to hang on to support at the 21 DMA.<\/p>\n<p>As the price continues to decline, it appears to be stabilizing above $75,600. It is nearly closing in on flipping $76,000. This suggests that BTC may have absorbed this sell pressure.The stabilization around current levels could be assumed as a second retest of the range consolidation between $63K and $75K.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the daily trading volume has jumped 68% to around $36.21 billion, indicating buying pressure potentially from the discounted move.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_602525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602525\" style=\"width: 2458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-602525 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin BTC\" width=\"2458\" height=\"1762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx.jpg 2458w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx-1536x1101.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx-2048x1468.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJRB28SWAAAHpcx-1200x860.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2458px) 100vw, 2458px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-602525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Therefore, BTC&#8217;s case remains bullish unless the price breaks below $75K and continues to decline.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Final Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT shares see a record sale of $1.29 billion in a single trading session, igniting Bitcoin&#8217;s price weakness.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bitcoin was stabilizing above $75K, just below the 50 DMA, but bulls were keeping the price above the 21 DMA.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBIT sales drove 4.32K BTC outflows worth $324M, with daily trading volume hitting $6.07 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":602533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,66,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin-news","category-new-news","category-social","category-trading-view"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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