The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on September 16. The following week, investors poured $3.55 billion into crypto funds, the most in any week of 2026.

Higher rates make safe assets like government bonds pay more. Crypto pays no interest at all. Yet big money went the other way.

Why Investors Bought Crypto After a Rate Hike

The Fed raised its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points to a range of 3.75% to 4.00%. Markets had seen it coming.

CoinShares, the asset manager that tracks these flows, says the hike ended weeks of guessing. Buyers then rushed back.

“The scale and breadth of the week’s demand suggest institutional conviction returned once the policy decision removed a…