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Investors rush into new 'blockchain' ETFs, pouring in $240 million in single week

The cryptocurrency craze is finally flowing into the exchange-traded funds business.

Investors poured about $240 million into two blockchain-focused ETFs since their launch last week, according to the latest available data from FactSet. Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The surge of interest came even as bitcoin, the largest digital currency by market capitalization, stagnated in price in the last week. Bitcoin has fallen nearly 7 percent in the last week to about $10,800 Friday on Coinbase, the leading U.S. exchange for major cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin performance in the last week

Source: Coinbase

“It is rare for new ETFs to pull in such a large amount of cash,” Todd Rosenbluth, director of ETF & mutual fund research, CFRA, said in an email, “but there has been pent-up demand for a thematic approach to gain exposure to Blockchain.”

Amplify Transformation Data Sharing ETF (BLOK), whose top holdings include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Overstock.com, saw assets under management leap to $164.9 million Wednesday from just $2 million a week ago, according to FactSet. Chipmakers such as Taiwan Semiconductor have reported a sales surge due to demand from cryptocurrency “miners.” E-commerce company Overstock.com has a division focused on developing and investing in blockchain-related businesses.

The Reality Shares Nasdaq NextGen Economy ETF (BLCN) holds stocks such as IBM, which is developing a number of enterprise blockchain projects, and SBI Holdings, which is a prominent Japanese financial services company working with cryptocurrencies. The BLCN ETF’s assets under management multiplied just over nine times in a week to $86.27 million, FactSet data showed.

“It’s the first in a series of products we’re going to be pushing into the space,” said Eric Ervin, CEO of Reality Shares, who estimates the BLCN ETF assets will top $100 million in the next day or so.

Ervin said the closest thing to the massive growth in BLCN was a surge of fund flows into the ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF (HACK), which launched just over a week before news broke that Sony Pictures was hacked.

Reality Shares’ BLCN is up about 1.3 percent in the last week, while Amplify’s BLOK is up about 1 percent.

The rush of fund flows into the blockchain ETFs is the latest case of hot money rushing into crypto-related assets.

Digital currency bitcoin leaped 2,000 percent in the 12 months leading up to mid-December, amid a surge of interest in cryptocurrencies that sent their total market value above $800 billion earlier this month, according to CoinMarketCap.

Following the meteoric price increases, several tiny stocks have skyrocketed hundreds of percent after announcing they were adding “blockchain” to their names, or making some kind of investment in the technology. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has also temporarily halted trading in some stocks due to questions about claims related to investments in token sales.

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