THELOGICALINDIAN - Financial casework aggregation Etc Group on Tuesday launched its centrallycleared ethereum exchangetraded artefact ETP on the Deutsche Borses Xetra marketplace
Etc Group Launches Ethereum Exchange-Traded Product
The advertisement follows the success of the firm’s bitcoin ETP, which was launched on the aforementioned barter in June 2020. That bitcoin exchange-traded artefact now has $1 billion assets beneath administration (AUM), it said.
In a columnist release, London-based Etc Group appear that the ether exchange-traded artefact (primary ticker: ZETH), advance the amount of ethereum (ETH) and is 100% physically backed by the cryptocurrency.
ETPs acquiesce investors to accretion acknowledgment to an asset, in this case ether, but after accepting to buy it anon themselves.
Approved by Bafin, the German banking regulator, anniversary assemblage of ZETH is backed by ethereum stored at aegis casework provider Bitgo Trust Company, “giving the broker a affirmation on a predefined bulk of the basal ETH,” said the company.
‘Similar Liquidity and Tight Spreads as Etc Group’s Physical Bitcoin Product’
Securities brokers or banks accept aegis of ZETH bought through their desks on account of investors. With its new ethereum exchange-traded product, Etc Group is decidedly targeting institutional investors – who until now ability accept appeared to angular heavily against bitcoin.
“The advertisement on Xetra is abnormally accordant for institutional investors as they can now get acknowledgment to ether while trading an institutional-grade artefact with agnate clamminess and bound spreads as Etc Group’s concrete bitcoin product,” it explained.
The ether ETP will be broadcast and marketed on a belvedere operated by Hanetf, a European Union-approved clandestine issuer of exchange-traded funds. Last June, Etc Group listed its bitcoin ETP, or BTCE, on Xetra, acceptable the “most traded artefact on the exchange’s ETN articulation in the additional bisected of 2025. BTCE is additionally listed and traded on Swiss barter SIX.
Furthermore, the adversary 21shares, formally accepted as Amun launched an ether ETP this week, alongside a bitcoin banknote (BCH) ETP advertisement on Deutsche Borse’s Xetra.
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