Market analysts believe that institutional investors will turn their attention towards altcoins once the cryptocurrency ETFs arrive next in the United States.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission The SEC has received five new members. altcoin ETF filings The first half of the month saw progress made despite the US Government shutdown.
The approval can be a simple yes or no. “open the door for the next wave of institutional buying,” Leon Waidmann said he is head of Research at Web3 Analytics company Onchain.
“Altcoin ETF inflows are the inevitable next step after Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs proved institutional demand,” Waidmann tells Cointelegraph. “This is regulatory confidence translating into capital flows.”
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This shift indicates an increase in institutional demand for crypto-exchanges.
Waidmann believes that the trend could see altcoin ETFs as the new vehicles for institutional adoption of altcoins. This would result in sustained flows of altcoins over years.
“Institutions found Bitcoin via ETFs, now they’re moving into Ethereum, and other altcoins are coming next.”
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Some analysts have expressed concern about the situation. BlackRock’s absence from The altcoin ETFs are expected to result in limited inflows. BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, for example, has attracted $28.1 billion of investments in 2025. It is the only ETF that shows positive year-to date (YTD), inflows.
BlackRock’s fund was necessary to prevent the cumulative outflows of Bitcoin spot ETFs. according Vetle Lunde, K33’s director of research.
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The researcher said that based on the dynamic seen with Bitcoin ETFs, BlackRock’s absence in the altcoin ETF waves may limit the cumulative inflows as well as their possible tailwind effects on the tokens underlying them.
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Source: cointelegraph.com
