According to @EricBalchunas, BlackRock’s gold ETF IAU is up 64% year-to-date, its strongest gain on record by a factor of 3, and has taken in over $10 billion, also a record, source: @EricBalchunas. Despite this historic strength in gold flows, BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF IBIT is featured among the firm’s biggest investment themes for 2025, source: @EricBalchunas. For traders, this juxtaposition highlights institutional focus on BTC ETF products alongside robust gold demand, making IBIT versus IAU net creations and asset flows a key relative indicator to watch, source: @EricBalchunas. Monitoring daily fund flows and volume divergence between IBIT and IAU can help gauge near-term BTC liquidity impact versus gold, source: @EricBalchunas.