No, the firm has to go get the Bitcoin after someone buys it, or sell the Bitcoin when someone sells the ETF. They do not hold above or below their ETF issued shares. They settle every day. This is, of course, assuming they are doing it the way that was approved and they purport.
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I believe you are correct. At least it should be that way.
However thenthis makes no sense with the current price reaction:
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds logged a total daily net inflow of $45.14 million on Tuesday. This marks the fund’s 11th consecutive day of inflows, which is the longest streak of positive flows since February.
BlackRock’s IBIT drew in $102.5 million, leading net inflows among bitcoin ETFs on Wednesday, according to data from SoSoValue. This led IBIT to become the largest spot bitcoin fund in terms of net asset value, with $19.68 billion — surpassing that of Grayscale’s GBTC.
Since converting into a spot bitcoin ETF, GBTC has been losing funds on most days, including yesterday, when it saw net outflows of over $105 million. As of Wednesday, GBTC has a net asset value of $19.65 billion.
Fidelity’s FBTC reported the second-largest net inflows of $34.35 million. At the same time, other funds from Ark Invest and 21Shares, Bitwise, Invesco and Galaxy Digital, Valkyrie, and WisdomTree saw single-digit gains on Wednesday.
Combined, the 11 spot bitcoin ETFs saw total net inflows of over $2 billion in the past 11 days, bringing the cumulative total net inflows since January to $13.73 billion.
Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin rose 0.73% in the past 24 hours to $68.126, according to The Block’s Bitcoin Price Page.
Spot bitcoin ETFs see 11 straight days of net inflows as BlackRock’s IBIT claims top spot — TradingView News