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First Spot LINK ETF Enters US Market
Grayscale Investments listed its Grayscale Chainlink Belief ETF with the ticker image GLNK on NYSE Arca, a subsidiary of the NYSE Group.
The ETF offers buyers regulated entry to Chainlink by way of conventional brokerage accounts. It’s the primary ETF in the US monitoring LINK, and it’s underneath the Funding Firm Act of 1940.
Chainlink operates as an oracle community that connects blockchains to exterior information and is broadly adopted by nationwide governments, main decentralized finance protocols, and prime monetary establishments.
“Chainlink’s decentralized oracle community is setting the market customary for verifiable information and cross-chain connectivity that underpins tokenization and DeFi throughout public blockchains,” Inkoo Kang, the senior vp of ETFs at Grayscale, posited in a press release. “With GLNK, buyers can achieve publicity to this foundational infrastructure within the acquainted ETP wrapper.”
 
Like a number of different of the asset supervisor’s ETFs, the Grayscale Chainlink Belief will likely be a conversion of the agency’s present non-public placement LINK belief into an ETF construction, 5 years after it was established in 2020.
Professional-crypto SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, taking the helm this 12 months, has seen the floodgates open for crypto-focused ETFs within the US, with funds tied to property like Solana, Ripple’s XRP, and Dogecoin all getting accepted for buying and selling.
Bitwise is one other issuer that has a spot Chainlink ETF within the works.
LINK is at present the 19th-largest crypto by market cap, in keeping with CoinGecko data. The token rose 12.5% during the last 24 hours on the ETF information, buying and selling fingers at $13.39 as of press time. LINK, nevertheless, stays 74.6% away from its historic all-time excessive of $52.70, which was set again in Could 2021.
