Denver-based funding agency Kelly Strategic Administration has filed for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) providing publicity to Ethereum (ETH) futures contracts.
The transfer comes simply three months after VanEck and ProShares immediately withdrew their ETH futures ETF purposes on the identical day in August.
Based on a Nov. 29 filing with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC), the Kelly Ethereum Ether Technique ETF will put money into cash-settled Ether futures contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile Alternate (CME).
Bloomberg’s Senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas famous on Twitter right this moment that Kelly’s Ether ETF could have a slim 20% probability of getting approval, as he questioned whether or not the “SEC is prepared for this new step.”
In Balchunas’ view, he thinks that SEC chairman Gary Gensler is “not mentally prepared” to approve something aside from a Bitcoin (BTC) futures ETF at this stage:
“In the course of the Bitcoin futures submitting course of in Aug, VanEck and ProShares filed for Ether ETFs too. SEC advised them to withdraw them. It is now 3 months (and three profitable Bitcoin ETF futures ETF launches) later.”
Balchunas added that if the rumors have been true that the SEC advised VanEck and ProShares to withdraw their respective Ether ETF filings as they offered publicity to crypto belongings aside from BTC, Kelly’s ETF would have a 1% probability of approval.
Simply had fast chat with @JSeyff and our early, tough odds of approval of this ETF is about 20% until this @twobitidiot rumor is right, then we might obv go approach decrease like 1% (altho we nonetheless see a number of ETFs holding $ETHE) https://t.co/Ba4yRMsGS6
— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) November 29, 2021
Researcher Jason Lowery commented “I’d be shocked if SEC accepted an ETH ETF b/c it tacitly alerts acceptance of ETH as not being an unregistered safety.”
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The SEC has accepted a number of BTC futures ETFs within the latter half of 2021, however it seems that the regulatory physique is presently not keen to log out on any kind of fund that gives publicity to crypto outdoors of CME BTC futures contracts.
Earlier this month, Anna Paglia the worldwide head of ETFs and listed methods at Invesco highlighted as such, as she defined that her agency’s choice to drag its BTC Futures ETF was that the SEC solely approves Bitcoin ETFs with 100% publicity to Bitcoin futures.
Invesco’s ETF was aiming to supply a mixture of futures swaps, bodily Bitcoin, and personal funds within the Bitcoin trade.
