Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset-management firm trying so as to add XRP and Cardano exchange-traded funds to its choices, is now beginning down the route for an ETF investing in Polkadot’s DOT token as effectively.
Nasdaq has filed a proper Type 19b-4 request with the U.S. Securities and Change Fee (SEC) to record and commerce shares of the Grayscale Polkadot Belief (DOT). The submitting begins a 45-day evaluate interval for the regulator to acknowledge the submitting. The regulator can approve, or disapprove the applying or prolong the evaluate interval.
In current weeks, Grayscale, which already presents bitcoin and ether ETFs, has filed with the SEC to transform its XRP Belief into an exchange-traded fund, and filed to record a spot Cardano ETF. These filings come because the SEC pivots to a extra pleasant method to the digital asset business below the Trump administration, having just lately dropped quite a few crypto-related investigations, together with in opposition to Robinhood and non-fungible token market OpenSea.
Grayscale has by no means provided a standalone Polkadot product. The submitting sees it be a part of crypto asset supervisor 21Shares, which late final month filed to record a spot Polkadot ETF with the SEC as effectively.
Polkadot’s DOT is on the time of writing buying and selling at $4.4 after dropping 6.7% of its worth within the final 24-hour interval amid a wider cryptocurrency market downturn.
