Two new altcoin exchange-traded funds are anticipated to launch in the US this week, monitoring XRP and Dogecoin, as regulators heat as much as crypto funding merchandise.
The REX-Osprey XRP ETF is coming this week, the fund issuer said on Monday. Buying and selling underneath the ticker XRPR, will probably be the primary US ETF to ship buyers spot publicity to the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
REX and Osprey have cleared the Securities and Trade Fee’s 75-day evaluate window and are anticipated to start buying and selling on Friday, barring any additional delays, which aren’t anticipated.
The product is about to launch underneath the Funding Firm Act of 1940, which supplies a less complicated approval path than the Securities Act of 1933 used for spot Bitcoin ETFs.
Not like merchandise that immediately maintain the underlying asset, this 1940 Act construction permits the fund to launch robotically 75 days after submitting except the SEC objects.
This will likely be “one other good litmus check for ‘33 Act spot XRP ETF demand,” Nova Dius President Nate Geraci said, including that futures-based XRP ETFs are already nearing $1 billion in belongings.
Dogecoin fund launch imminent
The XRP (XRP) fund will not be the one altcoin ETF slated for launch this week.
“As of now, the Doge ETF DOJE is slated for a Thursday launch,” mentioned Bloomberg’s ETF professional Eric Balchunas on Monday.
REX-Osprey Dogecoin (DOGE) ETF additionally gained approval underneath the 1940 Act, a framework sometimes used for mutual funds and diversified ETFs. It’ll even be the primary memecoin ETF in the US.
REX-Osprey launched the primary Solana staking ETF (SSK) in July. Nevertheless, curiosity within the fund has been lackluster with simply $274 million in belongings underneath administration because it launched, and fewer than $25 million in inflows over the previous 5 buying and selling days, according to Farside Buyers.
In late August, REX-Osprey additionally filed for a BNB (BNB) staking ETF.
A slew of altcoin ETFs within the pipeline
In the meantime, greater than 90 crypto exchange-traded merchandise are ready for SEC approval as of the top of August, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart.
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On Tuesday, he observed that Canary Capital had up to date the prospectus submitting for his or her Litecoin ETF, which is due for ultimate resolution by the SEC within the first week of October.
Bitwise additionally filed a prospectus for a spot Avalanche (AVAX) ETF on Monday. The solely different two issuers with energetic filings for an Avalanche ETF are VanEck and Grayscale, mentioned Seyffart.
Nevertheless, the SEC delayed its choices on Bitwise’s proposed Dogecoin ETF and Grayscale’s Hedera ETF, setting a brand new deadline of Nov. 12.
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