Original Title: Who’s Selling, Who’s Holding, and Who’s Still Buying? Divergent Crypto ETF Holdings Among America’s Old Money
Original Author: Karen Z, Foresight News
The most revealing aspect of Q1 wasn’t how much prices fell, but how institutions navigated this market correction.
If viewed solely through price action, crypto ETFs had a challenging first quarter of 2026. Bitcoin and Ethereum faced downward pressure during the quarter, causing the market value of spot ETF holdings to decline broadly. Even positions that weren’t sold looked unimpressive by quarter-end. Yet the real insight from a market downturn has never been the net asset value curve itself—it’s what different types of institutions actually did on the same…






