As the crypto market turns red, the outflow in Bitcoin ETFs continues to grow. According to data from Coinglass on August 19, 2025, the outflow was $523.30 million, with FBTC at the top, at $246.90 million, followed by GBTC with an outflow of $115.50 million.
On the same day, the outflow of BITB was $86.80 million, ARKB mirrored an outflow of $63.30 million, and EZBC had an outflow of $3.30 million. In contrast, IBIT, BITCO, HODL, BRRR, and BTCW neither experienced an outflow nor an inflow.
It is worth noting that on August 18, the total outflow reached $121.70 million, with $68.70 million IBIT topping the outflow list, and ARKB had an outflow of $65.70 million, making its total outflow of $129 million in just two days.
Other than IBIT and ARKB, all the Bitcoin ETFs remained steady, reflecting no inflow or outflow, yet on August 18, BITB was the only ETF to see inflow, which was $12.70 million.
Since Bitcoin ETF secured approval and began trading, IBIT remained at the top, and on August 15, 2025, it became the only BTC ETF to post an inflow of $114.40 million, yet on the same day, GBTC posted an outflow of $81.80 million, and ARKB had an outflow of $65.70 million the same day.
Are whales selling Bitcoin to net profit at current prices?
As per data from CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin is now trading at $113,590 with a loss of more than 1.30% and has lost 4.70% of its price in a week.
However, the trading volume of BTC seems to be peaking and has reached $70.26 billion with an uptick of 6.88%. The available data underlines that the surge in the volume seems to have sparked the selling of Bitcoins from whales and ETF providers.
The X post by Whale Insider dated August 20, 2025, notes that Fidelity has sold 2,125 Bitcoin worth $246.8 million. A post of August 19 notes that Ark 21Shares has also sold 559.85 BTC for $64.4 million.
On the same day, it was also reported that BlackRock had sold 490 BTC valued at $68.7 million. The address marked as BlackRock’s wallet by Arkham now holds 735.916k Bitcoins valued at $83.63 billion.
Per the on-chain data, IBIT has moved 202.395 Bitcoin to ‘bc1qx8mgq’, and has moved 300 BTC to ‘bc1qrz5xh’. The total number of Bitcoins sold has reportedly exceeded 2000 BTC over the past 24 hours.
