Grayscale Confirms It Will Apply For Bitcoin ETF

THELOGICALINDIAN - Grayscale says its acquisitive to about-face its Bitcoin assurance armamentarium into a atom Bitcoin ETF

Grayscale will anon administer to about-face GBTC into an ETF.

Largest Bitcoin Fund Operator Plans ETF

Grayscale Investments has accepted that it intends to administer to convert its Bitcoin assurance alms into a Bitcoin ETF product.

A agent for the aggregation appear that it absitively to book for an ETF afterwards the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the top banking regulator in the U.S., greenlit the aboriginal Bitcoin ETF appliance filed by ProShares.

The approval of an ETF based on Bitcoin has been alleged a watershed moment for the crypto industry that will advice legitimize the asset chic amid acceptable investors. The accustomed ETF product’s basal amount is angry to futures affairs on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and is scheduled to barrage tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange.

In a Twitter thread, Jennifer Rosenthal, communications administrator at Grayscale, said the close previously had been cat-and-mouse for some academic adumbration from the SEC. “Today, I’m blessed to affirm that Grayscale will book for GBTC to be adapted into an ETF as anon as there’s a clear, academic adumbration from the SEC,” Rosenthal said.

Unlike the contempo ETF filings tracking futures derivatives, Grayscale will aim at an ETF that is physically backed, additionally accepted as a atom ETF. If approved, it could be the first-ever atom Bitcoin ETF to hit the U.S. banal market.

Grayscale currently allows investors to accept acknowledgment to Bitcoin through a clandestine assurance alleged Grayscale Bitcoin (GBTC) that issues shares traded on the U.S. banal market. It has over $38.6 billion allocated to GBTC out of a absolute of $52.6 in billion assets beneath management.

While GBTC has continued been an important advance agent in the crypto space, it has drawbacks apropos to its aerial costs of entry.

Because of the way GBTC’s artefact is structured, its shares generally barter at a exceptional or discount. By affective to an ETF product, Grayscale us aiming to annihilate the amount difference. Hence, Grayscale’s move to ETF would acquiesce for bigger appraisement and accomplish Bitcoin acknowledgment accessible to a added chic of institutional investors.

Rosenthal added Grayscale planned to book a specific certificate with regulators alleged a 19B-4 to catechumen their GBTC assurance armamentarium into an ETF abutting week. After the request, the SEC will accept a 75-day time window to analysis the application.

However, Grayscale’s ambitions to barrage a atom Bitcoin ETF may face attrition from the SEC. The agency’s chairman, Gary Gensler, has ahead said that he is added adequate with futures-based ETFs. According to Gensler, futures-based Bitcoin ETFs action bigger broker protection.