The world’s largest digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments, has partnered with America’s oldest bank BNY Mellon. As a result, the banking giant will provide the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust with fund accounting and administration starting later this year. The announcement from Grayscale states that as of October 1st, 2021, BNY Mellon will become an official partner with several services oriented towards the company’s largest fund. Namely, the oldest US bank will “provide the...
Read More »SkyBridge Capital’s Bitcoin ETF: The SEC Delays the Decision to August
After the US regulator postponed its decision about VanEck’s BTC ETF attempt, the watchdog has done the same with the application filed by Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital. CryptoPotato reported earlier this year when the global investment company based in NYC, SkyBridge Capital, filed with the SEC to launch a Bitcoin ETF. Should the product be approved, its service provider will be America’s oldest bank – BNY Mellon. Although the watchdog had until July 11th to make...
Read More »Institutional Demand Persists: The Purpose Bitcoin ETF Now Holds 22,500 BTC
The demand for the Purpose Bitcoin ETF has resumed after the mid-May decrease. Consequently, the company’s product has increased the bitcoins it holds by almost 30% in less than two months. Purpose BTC ETF Holds Almost 22.5K Coins CryptoPotato reported earlier this year when Canada’s Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) approved a filing by the financial services company – Purpose Investments – to launch an exchange-traded fund tracking the performance of the primary...
Read More »The SEC Should Have Approved a Bitcoin ETF Already, Says Hester Peirce
Hester Peirce, also known as the “crypto mom,” believes the agency she works at – the Securities and Exchange Commission – should have greenlighted a BTC ETF years ago. She argued that the SEC’s rationale keeps growing weaker. In an interview with CNBC, Peirce commented on the hot topic of Bitcoin ETF in the US and whether the country’s regulator will eventually approve such a product. She said this is “probably the biggest, the most-often-asked question I get.” But, with the...
Read More »VanEck’s CEO Urges the SEC to Approve a Bitcoin ETF Due to High Customer Demand
Jan van Eck, the CEO of the giant investment manager, VanEck, has asserted that the firm’s customers have a growing appetite for a Bitcoin ETF. This comes amid the company’s frequent attempt to have an exchange-traded product approved in the US. During a recent interview with CNBC, van Eck spoke about the company’s plans to enter the cryptocurrency space through an exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of bitcoin. The firm has already filed for a few such ETFs. It...
Read More »VanEck’s Bitcoin ETF Application Further Delayed by the SEC
The global investment manager VanEck would have to wait more to receive the SEC’s answer about its Bitcoin ETF application from earlier this year. The Commission’s second delay seeks other interested parties to weigh in on whether such a product will be sustainable. After withdrawing its previous attempts, VanEck filed another application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in March this year to release a Bitcoin ETF. The agency initially delayed the decision back...
Read More »The SEC Is Again Looking at Bitcoin ETF Applications
We are back at it again, folks. The bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) game is in play all over again in the United States as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now reviewing bitcoin ETF applications submitted by companies such as Fidelity and Sky Bridge Capital, led by Anthony Scaramucci. There Are Still Questions Surrounding a Bitcoin ETF The big question is not whether these products are good or useful in some way, but rather if the SEC finally has...
Read More »The SEC Is Still Scared of a Bitcoin ETF
Many analysts thought that with so much competition stemming from regions like Canada, the United States would give in sometime this year and submit to a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), but now it looks like that will not be the case. A Bitcoin ETF May Not Arrive This Year After All The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has always been relatively stubborn when it comes to permitting bitcoin-based products and services, and despite many new ideas and...
Read More »Grayscale oder Galaxy Digital: Wer bringt den ersten Bitcoin ETF?
Bitcoin ETFs sind aktuell wieder in aller Munde. Nun liebäugeln die großen Krypto-Vermögensverwalter Grayscale und Galaxy Digital mit einer Überführung der hauseigenen Bitcoin-Einlagen in einen ETF. Grayscale plant ersten Bitcoin ETF Galaxy Digital von Mike Novogratz hat Mitte April bei den U.S.-Regulatoren SEC einen Bitcoin ETF beantragt. Eine Genehmigung vorausgesetzt, soll der ETF an der NYSE Arca gehandelt werden, wobei der Bloomberg Galaxy Bitcoin als...
Read More »Canada’s First Bitcoin ETF Has Truly Exploded
Not too long ago, Canada – the United States’ neighbor to the north – introduced its respective continent to the first ever bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). The product has experienced solid popularity in this short period and is now valued at more than $1 billion in total assets. A Bitcoin ETF Is Truly as Popular as They Said It Would Be This past year’s cryptocurrency boom has arguably caused many people to swiftly jump into the cryptocurrency space. It has...
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