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Grayscale Investments is urging the U.S. SEC to forestall what it phrases an “unfairly discriminatory and prejudicial first-mover benefit,” for potential Bitcoin ETF issuers:
1/ Yesterday @Grayscale despatched a remark letter to $GBTC and different spot #bitcoin ETF recordsdata restating that the SEC is able to approve all spot bitcoin ETFs *now*, and likewise commenting on the just lately proposed SSAs. This thread clarifies some high-level factors of the letter:
— Craig Salm (@CraigSalm) July 28, 2023
Grayscale, which is presently in a authorized dispute with the SEC following the regulator’s refusal to permit the conversion of its Bitcoin Belief to an ETF, outlined its stance in a letter penned by a authorized consultant:
“As a disclosure-based regulator, the SEC shouldn’t decide winners and losers; as an alternative, the SEC should proceed to supply issuers with suggestions or steering constantly and equitably.”
This improvement comes after functions by BlackRock, Valkyrie, Invesco and others launched a Spot Bitcoin ETF software to the SEC, which seems to have spurred further functions upon the SEC rejection.
In an SEC submitting, Nasdaq just lately disclosed that it reached phrases for a surveillance-sharing settlement with Coinbase regarding the itemizing of BlackRock’s proposed ETF. Different exchanges, comparable to Cboe, have included related language of their proposals.
Grayscale’s Chief Authorized Officer, Craig Salm, opined that the SEC is now able to approve Bitcoin ETPs because it had beforehand given the nod to Bitcoin futures ETFs.
3/ That is nice. As a result of it means spot #bitcoin ETFs may be authorised *at the moment* even earlier than the proposed SSAs with spot bitcoin markets are prepared — which is able to take time to truly enter into, construct out the tech, achieve regulators’ approval and so forth.
— Craig Salm (@CraigSalm) July 28, 2023
Grayscale is advocating for the simultaneous approval of all Bitcoin ETF proposals, fearing that solely sanctioning the newest candidates would counsel a drastic shift within the SEC’s software of regulatory requirements:
“Though Grayscale strongly helps a Fee strategy that will facilitate approval of all spot bitcoin ETP proposals, approving solely the above-referenced proposals would replicate a optimistic however sudden and important change within the Fee’s software of the related statutory commonplace.”
