Crypto ETFs have been named the worst-performing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) obtainable to UK consumers this yr.
That’s in line with monetary analysts Morningstar, which discovered VanEck’s £203 million ($259 million) Crypto & Blockchain Innovators ETF was the worst-performing in quarter one among 2025, dropping 39.34% of its funds.
VanEck was adopted by International X’s Blockchain ETF, iShares’ Blockchain Know-how ETF, and WisdomTree’s Blockchain ETF, which misplaced 37.65%, 30.92%, and 25.80% of their funds, respectively.
Rounding out the worst-performing ETFs have been uranium, AI, semiconductor, and cloud computing-based funds.
Yesterday, Morningstar additionally shared that almost all of the best-performing ETFs obtainable to UK traders have been made up of gold-based investments, with the highest three being L&G’s Gold Mining ETF, UBS Solactive International Pure Gold Miners ETF, and iShares’s Gold Producers ETF.
In keeping with crypto analyst Lookonchain, within the US, 10 completely different bitcoin (BTC) ETFs skilled a collective outflow on Monday of virtually $152 million, because the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariff announcement continued to shake the markets.
They then skilled an additional outflow of over $44 million a day later.
