- The Cboe has applied with the SEC to list Fidelity's Wise Origin
Bitcoin ETF . - An exchange partner is necessary to file a Form 19b-4. Only then will the SEC review the application.
- Thus far, the agency has not approved any cryptocurrency ETFs in the US.
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Fidelity in March $4 to track the performance of bitcoin. The fund will hold bitcoin and value its shares based on prices from major cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase and Bitstamp, according to a $4.
Cboe's acknowledgment to be Fidelity's exchange partner moves the application process with the SEC, $4.
An exchange partner such as Cboe BZX Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange is necessary to file a Form 19b-4. Only then will the SEC review the application.
The agency will now have to respond with a decision to reject or accept the application within 45 days. The SEC has 240 days to evaluate the application in total.
The SEC in the past has rejected every cryptocurrency ETF that has applied, which now total to $4.
Most recently, asset manager VanEck $4. The VanEck Ethereum Trust would list shares on the Cboe, according to an $4.
VanEck and the Cboe are $4 on whether it can list a bitcoin ETF, which the asset manager applied for in March. The regulator $4 until at least July 17.
Still, experts believe that with the SEC's new chairman Gary Gensler, who used to be an $4 teaching blockchain technology, the US will soon have its first-ever cryptocurrency ETF.
"I feel like it's inevitable. It's no longer 'if' but 'when' and I think the question of when is probably in 2021. That's my prediction," Dante Perruccio, president international of Wave Financial, a US-regulated digital asset manager, $4.
In Canada, $4, the Purpose Bitcoin ETF, has been approved, as well as ethereum ETFs. Brazilian regulators have reportedly $4.
The surge in interest in cryptocurrency ETFs rides on the skyrocketing prices of cryptocurrencies. $4 this year has climbed 95% year to date, $4 380%, and $4 around 13,000%.
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