Bitcoin ETFs just had their worst month ever
US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a record $4. 5B in June while whale wallets added over 270,000 BTC. Here's what that split—and Polymarket's shifting odds on the CLARITY Act—mean for the week ahead.
Bitcoin ETFs' worst month ever sent whales migrating in a different directionUS spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a record $4. 5 billion in June while the biggest wallets added more than 270,000 BTC. Plus Polymarket's CLARITY Act odds get cut nearly in half, and SpaceX joins the Nasdaq 100. Subscribe for market intel straight to your inboxMetaMask Alpha is MetaMask's weekly market digest. Context, data, signal—not financial advice. TLDR: Bitcoin changes hands, missing jobs and opaque CLARITYUS spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a record $4. 5 billion outflowwhile whales' wallets added over 270,000 BTC. Go deeper on the divergence in the Big Story below. Polymarket's odds that the CLARITY Act is signed into law in 2026 is The Number this week. SpaceX (SPCX) joins the Nasdaq-100 before market open on Tuesday. June's jobs report missed badly. Payrolls rose just 57,000 against expectations near 100,000. The Number: 40%—the CLARITY Act's Polymarket odds slidePolymarket's odds that the CLARITY Act is signed into law in 2026are down from 74% a month ago as a Senate ethics dispute stalls a floor vote before the chamber's August recess. Alpha Bites: SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday. SPCX becomes a Nasdaq-100 component before market open July 7, with an estimated $4. 3 billion in passive-fund buying tied to the inclusion. Tokenized SPCXonand theSPCX perpare already live on MetaMask,well ahead of Tuesday's index event. Wall Street's clearinghouse is moving toward onchain settlement. DTCC plans limited production trades of tokenized stocks, ETFs, and Treasuries in July, with a broader launch in October—itsconnection to Stellar for that network comes later, in the first half of 2027. The Big Story: ETFs sold June's fear. Whales bought it. US spot Bitcoin ETFs just closed their worst month since launching in January 2024. Investors pulled $4. 5 billion out in June, beating the prior record by 29%, with BlackRock's IBIT alone accounting for $3. 55 billion of it across nine straight days of redemptions. Bitcoin fell 20. 48% for the month, its steepest drop since June 2022. MetaMask Alpha covered this same split at a smaller scale afterMay's 13-day, $4. 4 billion ETF outflow streak; June's full-month numbers confirm the pattern at a larger scale. Over the same two weeks that ETFs were bleeding,wallets classified as whales added more than 270,000 BTC, according to CryptoQuant data. The Fear and Greed Index sat at 11 to 15, "Extreme Fear," through the back half of June, among the lowest readings of the current cycle. Sentiment brightened briefly on July 1, whenFed Chair Kevin Warsh, speaking at the ECB's Sintra forum, acknowledged that inflation expectations had come down. Bitcoin jumped more than 4% to clear $61,000 on the read that rate cuts remained possible. June's jobs report added a another data point: payrolls rose just 57,000 against expectations near 100,000, with the prior two months revised down by a combined 74,000—the kind of soft print that historically feeds rate-cut speculation even when a Fed chair is actively pushing back on it. It all points to a market where a regulated ETF wrapper and wallets outside it are, for the moment, telling two different stories about conviction, with a still-undecided Fed chair the variable most likely to determine which story holds by the July 29 meeting. The Setup: A short weekThursday, July 2June's jobs report: payrolls up just 57,000 against expectations near 100,000, with unemployment ticking down to 4. 2%; the prior two months were revised down by a combined 74,000. Friday, July 3US stock and bond markets closed for Independence Day, observed a day early since July 4 falls on a Saturday. Monday, July 6Markets reopen on regular hours. 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