What actually happened?
US spot ETFs focused on Ethereum (exchange-traded funds that hold actual ETH and provide access to it through a regular brokerage account) broke a five-day streak of net inflows on Friday. According to Kryptomagazín.cz, investors pulled a net $70.62 million out of them that day.
An important detail that easily gets lost in the headlines: this is a single day. According to the same source, the total for the entire week finished in the green, so one Friday with outflows did not erase what the funds had gathered in the preceding days.
According to Kryptomagazín, Bitcoin ETFs painted a similar picture, with Friday marking their second straight day of outflows.
Why doesn't one day of outflows mean a trend reversal?
Flows into and out of ETFs fluctuate from day to day. A single day of net outflows after five days of inflows is by definition a normal move, not a structural break. Claiming from one Friday that "the mood has turned" would be overblown. What can be said with certainty: a short inflow streak ended and the week as a whole stayed positive.
What to watch with this type of news in general: whether a single day of outflows is followed by a series of further outflows, or whether flows quickly return to positive. We will only know that from the data of the coming days, not from a single number.
| Indicator | Value according to source |
|---|---|
| Net outflow from ETH ETFs (Friday) | $70.62 million |
| Previous inflow streak | 5 days |
| Weekly total | positive |
| Bitcoin ETFs | second straight day of outflows |
All figures in the table come from Kryptomagazín.cz. The source does not state the specific date of that Friday nor the breakdown of flows by individual issuer, so we do not state them here either.
How do Kiyosaki's predictions fit into this?
Alongside the flow data, a statement by Robert Kiyosaki was also circulating in the media space. According to KryptoHodler.cz, he once again warned of a financial crisis, pointed to the rising US national debt (in his argument approaching $40 trillion, compared with roughly $9.5 trillion before the 2008 crisis), and has a long-standing preference for assets with limited supply. Besides gold and silver, he mentions Bitcoin and Ethereum with extremely optimistic targets (Bitcoin at $750,000, Ethereum at $95,000).
We need to be fair about what this is: one person's personal long-term prediction, moreover conditioned on the arrival of a deep crisis that Kiyosaki has been announcing repeatedly for years. It is not a data point about what happened in the market. charliedesk does not comment on such price targets as recommendations, nor does it adopt them as fact. We record them as a statement that can later be compared with reality.
What are the traders saying around the Fed?
The Polish site Incrypted described a private analysis by one trader who tracked the behavior of Bitcoin and Ethereum ahead of the Fed decision and identified the week's main triggers as macro data (PCE, US GDP) and the rhetoric of Jerome Powell. The source itself explicitly states that this is not investment advice, but rather the author's private opinion.
Caution is warranted here: the price levels mentioned in this analysis (Bitcoin around $64,000, Ethereum near $2,000, DXY around 101.27) do not correspond to any date that we could reliably tie to Friday's ETF flows. We therefore cite these levels only as part of the quoted analysis, not as the current state of the market. The precise dating of this analysis is uncertain to us.
And what about the whale that woke up after 11 years?
The Polish BitHub.pl drew attention to the movement of a so-called whale (a wallet with a large volume of ETH) that, according to the site, had been inactive for 11 years and has now become active again. The very headline leaves open the question of whether this will shake the market.
From the available summary we do not have a verified wallet address, the exact volume, nor whether the coins actually moved onto an exchange. Without these details it cannot be claimed that this was a reason for Friday's ETF outflow. Any connection between the awakened whale and ETF flows would at this point be speculation, not a proven cause.
What to take away from this
The verified core of the story is narrow and specific: on Friday a net $70.62 million flowed out of ETH ETFs, ending a five-day inflow streak, but the week stayed positive, and Bitcoin ETFs had their second day of outflows. Everything else (Kiyosaki's targets, the trader's analysis, the awakened whale) is context with varying degrees of certainty that merely hums around the main story. Distinguishing between hard data and opinion is exactly what separates news from hype.