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Story: Chainlink’s Bitwise ETF Pulls $1.5 Million as LINK Jumps 13.48% in One Week

By James Thorp

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13.48% When Everyone Else Was Falling. The price numbers are hard to ignore. Chainlink gained 13.

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Why Chainlink Specifically. Part of what makes Chainlink interesting to institutional investors — and this has been building…

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ETF Flows and What They Actually Mean. Inflows on multiple days across a single week is a specific detail. It's not like someone dumped $1.

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Chainlink just had a pretty good week. The Bitwise Chainlink ETF pulled in $1.5 million in fresh inflows while most of the crypto market was busy bleeding out.

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Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley confirmed the surge in institutional interest, saying investors are expanding their understanding of and involvement with Chainlink.

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The price numbers are hard to ignore. Chainlink gained 13.48% over the past week, making it the best-performing cryptocurrency among the top 15 by market capitalization.

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That kind of relative outperformance in a rough market tends to draw money fast. When something goes up while everything else goes sideways or down, it gets noticed — by…

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And yet it's worth being careful here. One strong week doesn't make a trend. Crypto markets shift fast, and assets that outperform in a downturn can give back those gains quickly…

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Part of what makes Chainlink interesting to institutional investors — and this has been building for a while now — is its role connecting traditional financial infrastructure to…

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Horsley leaned into that framing. He pointed to Chainlink's ability to enhance blockchain efficiency and its growing recognition among institutional players as a bridge between…

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See also: Nasdaq Pushes to Cut Red Tape Around Crypto ETF Options Launches

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Whether that pitch translates into sustained inflows is another question. The Bitwise ETF gives traditional investors a familiar wrapper — no wallets, no private keys, no custody…

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Broader context: stablecoin adoption and crypto ETF products have both grown sharply across institutional channels over the past couple of years.

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Still, $1.5 million is $1.5 million. It's not a flood. It's a signal, not a verdict.

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More context: Bitcoin Slides to $62,852 as Fidelity ETF Outflows Hit $131M in Two Days

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