$733 Million Exits in One Day: Three Forces Dragging Bitcoin Lower
<p class="text-left mb-4 ">Bitcoin fell below $73,000 between Wednesday night and Thursday, as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their largest daily outflow in recent months and macroeconomic pressure showed little sign of easing.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Bitcoin Drops 3.6%</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">According to market data, <a href="https://jrkripto.com/tr/coin/btc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-primary underline">Bitcoin </a>fell 3.6% over the past 24 hours to $72,842. Ethereum dropped 4.8% to $1,974. XRP and Solana also took a hit, each losing around 3.5%.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">
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</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Nick Ruck, director at LVRG Research, described the situation as a combination of profit-taking after recent highs, rising U.S. Treasury yields and macro caution fueled by geopolitical developments. Together, these factors pushed markets into risk-off mode.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Zeus Research analyst Dominick John pointed to another side of the decline. According to John, institutional capital shifting into traditional equity markets, along with heavy derivatives liquidations triggered after key BTC and ETH levels were broken, helped drag prices lower. He also said geopolitical uncertainty kept investors defensive and weakened dip-buying.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Peter Chung, head of research at Presto Research, said Bitcoin has shown an “unusual trading pattern” since mid-May. After trading above $80,000, the price gradually weakened over the past two weeks and underperformed both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq during that period. Chung linked this weakness directly to spot Bitcoin ETF outflows, noting that weekly redemptions reached levels seen during the October 2025 and February 2026 corrections.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">BlackRock’s IBIT Sees Its Second-Largest Outflow Ever</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">On Wednesday, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a total net outflow of $733.4 million. According to SoSoValue data, this was the highest daily outflow recorded since January 29.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The most striking figure came from BlackRock’s IBIT. The fund saw $527.8 million in net outflows, marking its second-largest daily exit since launch. Grayscale’s GBTC followed with $104.8 million in outflows. Four ETFs managed by Grayscale, Fidelity, Bitwise and Ark & 21Shares also closed the day with negative flows. The only fund to end the day in positive territory was Morgan Stanley’s MSBT, which recorded just $4.3 million in inflows.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">John said most of the outflows were driven by the unwinding of arbitrage basis trades and institutional risk-reduction strategies. In IBIT’s case, a large block trade from the previous day also comes into focus. Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said that on Tuesday, a block trade involving 29.2 million IBIT shares, worth around $1.3 billion, took place. That transaction pushed total Bitcoin ETF volume on Tuesday to $4.4 billion, the highest daily volume since April 17.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Ruck said investors are closely watching ETF flow momentum and support levels around $70,000. Continued outflows could signal that institutional capital is moving away from the crypto market.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Asian markets also opened lower on Thursday morning. Renewed attacks between the U.S. and Iran, which threatened a fragile ceasefire, sent Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index down 1.9% and Japan’s Nikkei 225 down 1.25%.</p><h2 class="text-left text-foreground text-3xl font-bold mb-3 mt-1">Treasury Operations Could Add More Pressure</h2><p class="text-left mb-4 ">Another warning has now been added to the bearish market backdrop. Michael Kramer, founder of Mott Capital Management, expects upcoming U.S. Treasury bond and bill operations to drain roughly $150 billion in liquidity from the financial system.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">“In my experience, Bitcoin gives a more reliable signal as a liquidity indicator than most instruments. If Treasury payments drain liquidity, Bitcoin could move much lower,” Kramer said.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The logic behind Treasury bond and bill sales works like this: newly issued securities pull cash from investors, and that money is transferred into the Treasury’s account at the Federal Reserve. As a result, a significant amount of liquidity is withdrawn from the banking system, reducing the free cash available for other investments.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">According to Kramer’s calculations, Treasury operations between May 28 and June 5 are lined up as follows: $15 billion in short-term bill payments on Thursday, $47 billion in coupon-bearing bond payments on Friday, $68 billion on Monday, $16 billion on Tuesday and an additional bill payment estimated between $5 billion and $15 billion on June 4.</p><p class="text-left mb-4 ">The first signs of this pressure have already appeared in prices. Bitcoin has fallen around 11% from this month’s peak above $82,500 and has lost the critical support level near $75,000. Kramer sees this breakdown as a clear sign that liquidity conditions are tightening.</p>
