Grayscale Advisors Files for New Ethereum Futures ETF
Grayscale Advisors has filed for a new Ethereum futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The ETF, managed by Grayscale Advisors, aims to maintain its holdings in Ether futures contracts.
Posted 10 months ago in Ethereum
Digital currency investment company Grayscale is the latest firm to file for a new Ethereum futures’ exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Grayscale on Sept. 19 officially proposed to list and trade shares of the Grayscale Ethereum Futures Trust (ETH) ETF under the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Arca Rule 8.200-E.
The proposal is pursuant to the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and rule change submitted by NYSE to the SEC. The ETF is managed by Grayscale Advisors, also referred to as the “sponsor” in the filing. “The Sponsor is in the process of becoming registered as a commodity pool operator with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is in the process of becoming a member of the National Futures Association,” the document reads.
It also states that Grayscale Advisors has engaged Videnct Advisory as subadviser, to serve as the trust’s commodity trading adviser. The Grayscale Ethereum Futures Trust seeks to maintain its holdings in Ether futures contracts with a “roughly constant expiration profile,” the filing reads, adding that it will “never carry futures positions all the way to cash settlement.” The nature of the Ether futures contracts in the ETF will not require the trust to use an Ether custodian, the filing reads.
The news comes a few weeks after the digital asset management firm Valkyrie also filed for an Ether futures ETF with the SEC in mid-August, following a dozen of other firms filing for ETH futures ETFs. On Aug. 17, Bloomberg reported that the SEC was set to allow the first ETFs based on Ether futures, spurring a lot of optimism on the Ethereum market.
Last month Grayscale scored a major, though partial, victory against the SEC in its efforts to convert its over-the-counter Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a listed Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The SEC had rejected its GBTC application, after which Grayscale sued. The appeals court ordered that Grayscale’s petition for review be granted and the SEC’s order to deny the GBTC listing application be vacated. This victory, despite not guaranteeing the eventual listing of a Grayscale spot Bitcoin ETF, was still greeted with enthusiasm by the community.
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Last updated 9/20/2023, 9:27:59 AM
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