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Solana ETF Inflows Plunge 97%, but the Weekly Total Remains Positive

By Isaac • September 6, 2026 7:13 pm • Comments

Solana’s U.S. exchange-traded funds stayed in positive territory for the week ending September 4, but the pace of new money nearly disappeared.

The six products tracked by Farside Investors collected a combined $4.9 million. That was down from $142.7 million in the previous five-session period—a drop of roughly 96.6%.

As CryptoSlate reported, the decline measures a slowdown in net new capital. It does not mean fund assets, the SOL price or the investor count fell 97%.

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The weekly total matters because it remained above zero. Even after a $5.2 million net outflow on September 4, earlier positive sessions kept the full week in the black.

But the comparison with late August is still severe. Solana ETF products had just posted their strongest daily inflow of 2026, alongside record trading volume, before the latest weekly pace cooled.

The daily path was uneven: $900,000 entered on August 31, followed by $8.9 million on September 1. The products then lost $6.1 million, gained $6.4 million and lost $5.2 million over the final three sessions.

Bitcoin funds drew $986.7 million during the same latest week, up from $924.5 million in the prior period. Ethereum funds slowed from $815.7 million to $215.3 million, placing Solana’s pullback inside a mixed market rather than a uniform exit from crypto funds.

That earlier burst makes the latest number easier to understand: this is a sharp loss of momentum from an unusually strong base, not proof that investors abandoned the products altogether.

The Farside Investors flow table shows what happened inside the ETFs. Futures positioning offers a different view.

In the September 1 CFTC snapshot cited by CryptoSlate, leveraged funds held 1,069 long and 3,615 short futures-equivalent contracts in standard CME SOL. They were still net short, although that net-short exposure was smaller than it had been.

That does not automatically translate into bullish spot demand. A smaller short can come from funds closing hedges or reducing risk rather than opening a fresh directional bet on SOL.

The distinction is important because ETF creations and futures contracts measure different behavior. One records net capital entering listed products, while the other shows how a subset of leveraged traders is positioned in derivatives.

Neither reading proves what SOL’s price will do next. Together they show demand that stayed positive in the funds while professional futures traders remained defensively positioned.

Solana’s own September 5 ecosystem update provides a broader snapshot of activity around the network while the fund data cools.

The clean reading is mixed. Solana ETFs finished the week with net inflows, but the amount was small and Friday ended negative.

Leveraged futures funds became less bearish without actually turning bullish.

For the next week, breadth and persistence matter more than a single percentage headline. Continued positive flows across several products would suggest the pause is temporary.

More outflow days would make the late-August surge look increasingly isolated.

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