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Latam Insights: El Salvador’s DOJ Bitcoin Watch, Chile’s Bitcoin Bench

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition of Latam Insights, El Salvador wants to buy DOJ’s bitcoin at a discount, Chilean lawmakers plan to establish a bitcoin bench, and El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption might be spearheading the U.Today

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Ethereum Spot ETFs Suffer $186 Million Outflows As New Year Struggles Persist – Details

The Ethereum Spot ETFs experienced another tumultuous trading week in 2025 resulting in an overall net outflow. At the same time, the Ethereum market showed similar struggles as the prominent altcoin declined by 10% over the past seven days. Related Reading: Will Ethereum Bounce Back? Crypto Analysts Discuss Potential Price Recovery Ethereum ETFs Net Assets Drop Below $12 Billion Amid Strong Outflows Following a negative performance in the first week of 2025, the Ethereum Spot ETFs are struggling to rediscover their bullish form as another trading week was marred by higher withdrawals than deposits by investors. According to data from ETF tracking site SoSoValue, the week began on a positive note as the Ethereum ETFs rallied to record $128.72 million in net inflows on January 6. However, this positive momentum was overshadowed by three consecutive days of cumulative net losses of $314.61 million leading to a weekly net outflow of $185.89 million. During the course of this week, Fidelity’s FETH registered the largest net outflows valued at $276.13 million. This figure was followed by minimal withdrawals from Grayscale’s ETHE, ETH and Bitwise’s ETHW estimated to the tune of $16.12 million, $14.60 million and $3.05 million, respectively. BlackRock’s ETHA was the only ETF to see a net inflow totalling $124.11 million while VanEck’s ETHV, Invesco’s QETH, 21Shares’ CETH, and Franklin Templeton’s EZET reported no net flows. Following the Ethereum Spot ETFs underperformance, their total net assets for has declined by 10.89% to $11.61 Billion, representing 2.96% of the Ethereum market cap. Meanwhile, the cumulative total net inflow for these investment funds has now climbed to $2.45 billion. As expected, Grayscale’s ETHE continues to lead the market with net assets totaling $4.57 billion, while BlackRock’s ETHA maintains its dominance with $3.68 billion in net flows since the launch of these Ethereum ETFs in July. Related Reading: Crypto Analyst Explains What Could Trigger Ethereum Rally To $6,000 Ethereum Crashes By 10% Due To General Market Struggles In other news, data from CoinMarketCap shows the price of Ethereum declined by 10.06% in the past week in line with wide scale losses across the crypto market. Notably, this price loss was accompanied by $1.4 billion in exchange outflows, as many bullish investors looked to accumulate popular altcoin at lower prices. At press time, Ethereum trades at $3,287 following a slight gain of 0.58% in the last 24 hours. During this period, the asset’s trading volume has plummeted by 55.98% and is now valued at $11.75 billion. In making any headway, ETH would need to break past the immediate resistance at $3,350 which may ignite a rally to around $3,700. Featured image from StormGain, chart from Tradingview U.Today