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Quick Take
  • 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.
  • The Fed raised its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points to a range of 3.75% to 4.00%.

What Happened

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.

Why Investors Bought Crypto After a Rate Hike

Market Context

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.

The rebound came after a bruising stretch. On September 15, the CLARITY Act, a bill to set federal rules for crypto markets, failed a Senate vote 49 to 50. Bitcoin sank below $75,000. Lawmakers are now drafting replacements.

US products drew $3.43 billion of the total. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took in money on all five trading days. In late May, crypto funds lost $1.67 billion in a week.

Why It Matters

“The scale and breadth of the week’s demand suggest institutional conviction returned once the policy decision removed a key source of uncertainty, a pattern consistent with buying the fact after weeks of caution,” CoinShares wrote in the report.

Another Fed Hike Could Test the Rally

Details

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

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

CoinShares also sells crypto funds of its own.

US Funds Led the Buying as Strategy Sold Stock for Bitcoin

Bitcoin (BTC) funds took $2.52 billion. Ethereum (ETH) funds added $702 million. Solana (SOL) and XRP (XRP) followed with $193 million and $92.3 million.

MicroStrategy, the company that holds 847,666 BTC, bought 1,666 more last week. It paid for part of that $143 million purchase by selling new shares of its stock, MSTR. CoinShares noted this dilutes existing shareholders.

Bitcoin now trades near $84,236, up 1.37% in 24 hours, per BeInCrypto data. Traders see a less than 40% chance of another hike in October. The 10-year Treasury yield sits near 5.28%.

Wednesday offered some relief. US PCE inflation cooled to 3.4% in August. Friday’s jobs report comes next.

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