SEC delays decision on Grayscale's Ethereum Futures Trust ETF, again
In a document filed late on Friday, the SEC said it would take until May 30, 2024, to decide whether to approve Grayscale’s Ethereum futures ETF. Separately, the crypto industry has been focused on a spot ether ETF which gives investors exposure to the cryptocurrency without needing to directly purchase or hold the asset.
In a document filed late on Friday, the SEC said it would take until May 30, 2024, to decide whether to approve of Grayscale's ether futures ETF.
"The Commission finds that it is appropriate to designate a longer period within which to issue an order approving or disapproving the proposed rule change so that it has sufficient time to consider the proposed rule change and the issues raised therein," the agency said in the filing.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said the delay was expected, in a post on X.
Seyffart has previously said that Grayscale is playing chess, not checkers as a way to get the SEC to eventually approve of a spot Ethereum ETF.
"I doubt Grayscale even intends to launch this. It's nothing but a trojan horse to get a 19b-4 order from the SEC," Seyffart said in November on X. "And watch them try to either approve and argue why this is different from spot. Or Deny and argue why 1933 act products are meaningfully different from 1940 act products. Both are bad for SEC IMO. Genius move IMO."
The agency previously delayed its time to consider Grayscale's ether futures ETF a few times — most recently in December when it asked for public comments.
Yet the SEC previously greenlit a batch of ether futures ETFs in October 2023, including from ProShares, VanEck and Bitwise.
Spot ether ETFs
The crypto industry has been focused on a spot ether ETF which gives investors exposure to the cryptocurrency without needing to directly purchase or hold the asset.
Leading financial institutions, such as Fidelity and BlackRock , have applied for the spot product over the past few months. Optimism for the SEC approving such a product has since dwindled over the past few weeks. Another Bloomberg ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, recently dropped his estimate of the chances of a spot Ethereum ETF approval by May from about 70 percent to 30 percent.
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