BlackRock’s IBIT pulls in $29.86 million in fresh Bitcoin demand

A modest inflow day for the iShares Bitcoin Trust still adds to a fund that dominates the US spot Bitcoin ETF market Clients of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) bought $29.86 million worth of Bitcoin on a trading day in October 2026. Headlines rounded it to $30 million. The figure is a net inflow. It measures money coming into the fund minus money leaving it. When that number is positive, the fund generally needs more Bitcoin to back the new shares investors are buying. On October 19, 2026, IBIT recorded a single-day inflow of $665.2 million , surpassing the inflows of the other Bitcoin ETFs combined. IBIT has gathered more than $65 billion in cumulative net inflows since it launched in January 2024.

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