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Funding managers REX Shares and Osprey Funds submitted prospectuses for 21 exchange-traded funds, from ones holding Sui (SUI) to Bitcoin Money (BCH) to Hyperliquid (HYPE) and others with staking. Defiance ETFs LLC additionally sought the SEC’s sign-off for leveraged funds monitoring crypto, in addition to Tesla and Amazon.
“Issues are getting wild,” posited Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart in a Friday submit on the X social media platform.
The SEC is going through closing deadlines on over 16 ETF functions this month. In contrast to previous waves, many of those proposals transcend Bitcoin and Ether, focusing on quite a lot of main altcoins, together with Solana (SOL), Ripple’s XRP, Litecoin (LTC), and memecoin Dogecoin (DOGE), with closing deadlines scattered all through October.
The flood of crypto filings comes within the wake of a extra collaborative White Home since crypto-friendly President Donald Trump assumed workplace in January.
 
A New SEC Period
The SEC has postponed decisions on a number of crypto ETFs in the midst of 2025, setting new deadlines; nonetheless, the Fee has additionally taken steps towards dramatically simplifying the ETF approval course of.
The SEC accredited a set of generic itemizing requirements for commodity-based belief shares on Sept. 17 that might shorten the trail to introducing future spot crypto ETFs by decreasing the necessity for case-by-case rule adjustments that had lengthy delayed crypto’s path to mainstream monetary autos.
Seyffart stated on the time that the coverage change could be a optimistic transfer towards a “wave of spot crypto ETP launches within the coming weeks and months.”
Late final month, the SEC requested itemizing exchanges to withdraw their 19b-4 filings and re-submit underneath the Common Listing Standards — a procedural transfer that additional hinted the company was getting ready to approve new merchandise.
