Valkyrie Digital Belongings Information for Bitcoin ETF

Valkyrie Digital Belongings filed an application on Friday for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), turning into the second firm to take action in a month.

In response to Dallas-registered Valkyrie Digital Belongings, the Valkyrie Bitcoin Belief can be listed on the New York Inventory Trade and Coinbase Custody Belief Firm, LLC would function the custodian for the proposed ETF.

Leah Wald, CEO of Valkyrie Digital Belongings, instructed CoinDesk, “Our government crew has beforehand launched a number of ETFs, publicly traded funds, and ETPs, together with bitcoin funds.”

Wald explains the crew behind the ETF consists of, “Steven McClurg and John Key who’ve collectively labored on over 100 esoteric and novel offers which have handed regulatory scrutiny.”

Whereas an ETF is seen as advantageous as a result of it trades on the inventory market in a lot the identical manner as shares in well-liked corporations similar to Apple and Microsoft, over time the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee has rejected bitcoin ETF proposals resulting from issues about market volatility and trade manipulation. 

Nonetheless, there’ve been indicators the SEC is warming to the thought. In October 2020, then-Chairman Jay Clayton, who many noticed as lukewarm towards crypto, mentioned the company was nonetheless open to contemplating ETF proposals.

Now, with a brand new administration inflicting a altering of the guard on the SEC, it’s broadly hoped by crypto advocates that such an ETF will likely be permitted in 2021. Clayton stepped down formally final month and was changed by Gary Gensler, who’s broadly seen as being extra pro-crypto than is his predecessor.

Additionally including to optimism is that this month’s departure of Dalia Blass, the director of the SEC’s division of funding administration. Blass was the creator of a 2018 letter inside the SEC expressing issues that the bitcoin market was not massive sufficient or liquid sufficient to be prepared for an exchange-traded product.