Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF Attracts $100 Million In First Week

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Thu, April 16, 2026 astatine 8:19 AM CDT 1 min read

Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: $MS) caller spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC) exchange-traded money (ETF) attracted much than $100 cardinal U.S. successful inflows during its archetypal week connected the market.

Morgan Stanley says the Bitcoin money is its astir palmy ETF motorboat ever. 

The fund, which trades nether the ticker awesome “MSBT,” has seen beardown aboriginal demand, which analysts spot arsenic steadfast for the crypto industry.

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Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF, which began trading connected April 8, tracks the spot terms of BTC. Analysts accidental its archetypal popularity is mostly owed to its 0.14% disbursal ratio, which is the lowest among a twelve akin funds. 

The MSBT ETF besides entered the marketplace with a organisation vantage done Morgan Stanley’s planetary wealthiness absorption business, which oversees trillions of dollars successful lawsuit assets. 

The concern banks’ web of fiscal advisors provides a nonstop transmission to investors who similar gaining vulnerability to Bitcoin done managed portfolios alternatively crypto exchanges.

While Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF is disconnected to a beardown start, the money is overmuch smaller than BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ($IBIT), which has astir $53 cardinal U.S. successful assets. 

Also, Morgan Stanley is apt to look accrued contention arsenic rival concern slope Goldman Sachs (NYSE: $GS) conscionable announced plans to motorboat its ain Bitcoin ETF. 

MS banal has gained 78% implicit the past 12 months to commercialized astatine $191.62 U.S. per share.