Solana-based meme coin Bonk (BONK) has begun buying and selling on Switzerland’s third-largest inventory trade, via a newly launched trade traded product, including one other regulated crypto providing to Europe’s increasing digital asset market.
Swiss-based crypto ETP issuer Bitcoin Capital issued the BONK ETP on SIX Swiss Change, permitting buyers to achieve publicity to the token via conventional brokerage accounts, in accordance to an announcement shared with Decrypt.
As a subsidiary of Swiss asset-management boutique FiCAS AG, Bitcoin Capital launched the world’s first actively managed Bitcoin ETP in 2020.
Switzerland’s regulatory framework and market infrastructure for admitting crypto ETPs made it the “most popular venue for the launching a BONK ETP,” Marcel Niederberger, Chief Govt Officer at Bitcoin Capital & FiCAS advised Decrypt.
“Europe, and particularly the SIX Swiss Change affords a extremely developed regulatory setting with constant supervisory practices,” he stated.
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“The product will attain each institutional and retail buyers via established dealer platforms,” Niederberger stated, noting that regulated ETP entry tends to enhance investor confidence and liquidity, with most inflows throughout Bitcoin Capital’s current merchandise nonetheless coming from institutional desks.
He anticipates “continued growth of regulated merchandise referencing BONK” subsequent 12 months, as maturing European infrastructure and rising urge for food for thematic digital property open the door to “extra ETPs and structured notes.”
BONK sits close to $0.0599, up 3.5% on the day, rating because the seventh-largest meme coin by market worth per CoinGecko information.
The Bonk itemizing follows a surge of meme coin merchandise coming into regulated markets primarily in the USA, dominated by Dogecoin (DOGE), the most important meme coin by market cap.
In September, the Rex-Osprey Dogecoin ETF turned the primary U.S. fund to hold DOGE, whereas asset supervisor Grayscale launched its spot GDOG product final week, producing roughly $1.4 million in first-day buying and selling quantity.
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REX Shares additionally filed for a BONK ETF in January, alongside different meme coin merchandise.
In the meantime, 21Shares unveiled a 2x leveraged Dogecoin ETF on the Nasdaq final week, whereas Bitwise’s Dogecoin ETF, BWOW, received approval from NYSE Arca on Tuesday for itemizing and registration.
