BTC Faces Selling Pressure Despite $308B Inflows
CryptoQuant CEO says Bitcoin’s market cap remains flat despite $308B inflow in 2025, rendering DATs strategy ineffective.
- $308B in 2025 inflows failed to raise Bitcoin’s market cap
- CryptoQuant CEO warns of persistent selling pressure on BTC
- DATs strategy is proving ineffective under current conditions
Bitcoin is showing signs of stress despite an enormous $308 billion in inflows in 2025. According to Ki Young Ju, CEO of on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, the market is not reacting as expected. The usual correlation between capital inflow and rising market capitalization has seemingly broken down this year.
This unusual trend suggests that Bitcoin is facing unusually high selling pressure, making it difficult for inflows to translate into meaningful price growth. Normally, such a massive inflow would drive prices up significantly. But this time, the opposite is happening—market cap remains stagnant while sell-side activity appears to dominate.
DATs Strategy Under Pressure
Ki Young Ju specifically pointed out the declining effectiveness of DATs (Demand-Adjusted Transfer Strategies), a method often used to estimate long-term bullish trends based on demand flow. DATs typically help investors spot accumulation patterns and predict price surges. But now, these indicators are no longer aligning with the inflow behavior.
The DATs strategy becomes less reliable when a large amount of the inflow is absorbed by existing holders cashing out or by whales distributing BTC. This means that the same volume of inflow does less to boost prices if sell pressure outpaces buy pressure.
What It Means for Bitcoin Investors
The key takeaway for Bitcoin investors is caution. Even large institutional or whale-driven inflows can’t guarantee price gains when selling pressure persists. As long as this trend continues, Bitcoin could remain range-bound, frustrating bullish predictions based solely on capital inflow data.
For now, on-chain analysts and retail investors alike may need to look beyond DATs and consider more nuanced indicators—such as miner behavior, long-term holder activity, and macroeconomic sentiment—to assess Bitcoin’s real momentum.
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