How Everyone Can Win From the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF Decision, Including the SEC

[ad_1] Should the SEC wish to challenge the federal judge’s conclusions in the Grayscale decision, the company’s application could simply be denied again for a different (or even an analogous) reason. That course of action becomes problematic quickly. The last thing any lawyer wants to do is upset a federal judge. That is a terrible idea, if […]

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WisdomTree and Invesco Galaxy Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Applications Delayed by SEC

[ad_1] Judge Neomi Rao, writing for the unanimous court, said the SEC’s denial of the application was inconsistent with the approval of a pair of bitcoin futures ETFs, and did not explain why it viewed these types of products differently given the underlying bitcoin market had a “99.9% correlation” between spot and futures market prices. […]

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BlackRock Bitcoin $BTC ETF Application Refiled, Naming Coinbase $COIN as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner

[ad_1] Several other pending applications, including one on behalf of BlackRock’s money-management rival, Fidelity, have since been updated to name Coinbase as the partner for the surveillance-sharing agreements. The sponsor of a bitcoin trust must enter a surveillance-sharing agreement with a regulated market of significant size to secure a go-ahead from regulators, based on a […]

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