Investment agency VanEck has filed a proposal for an Ethereum futures ETF with the SEC, adding to its stack of applications for crypto-related ETFs.
Investment agency VanEck has filed for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on Ethereum futures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In accordance with the submitting, VanEck’s fund will invest in ETH futures contracts, “pooled funding automobiles and exchange-traded merchandise that present publicity to ETH” whereas in a roundabout way investing in Ethereum or another digital belogings.
VanEck has already proposed an Ethereum ETF that might make investments immediately within the cryptocurrency, as have fellow hopefuls WisdomTree and Kryptoin.
But to date, the SEC has yet to approve any ETF that intends to take a position immediately in cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Bitcoin.
VanEck’s long road to a crypto ETF
Certainly, VanEck’s personal utility for a Bitcoin ETF has been repeatedly delayed by the SEC. The agency first proposed a Bitcoin ETF in 2018 earlier than withdrawing that application in September 2019.
VanEck’s most recent try at a Bitcoin ETF came in December 2020, becoming a member of various companies that filed purposes across the transition interval for the incoming Biden administration.
However, their hopes that Biden’s new SEC chair Gary Gensler can be more open to crypto funding merchandise (he as soon as taught a blockchain course at MIT) seem to have been roundly dashed.
Gensler has continued the cautious strategy taken by his predecessors, opining that he’d solely be open to approving a Bitcoin ETF beneath strict guidelines and never essentially one that gives direct Bitcoin publicity. Talking on the Aspen Security Discussion board earlier this month, Gensler stated that he “significantly seemed ahead to” the SEC’s assessment of “ETFs restricted to those CME-traded Bitcoin futures.
VanEck’s Ethereum futures ETF can be the primary within the U.S., although Canada has already permitted a trio of Ethereum ETFs from Function Investments, Evolve ETFs and CI World Asset Administration.
