The US Securities and Exchanges Fee (SEC) has as soon as once more postponed its determination on spot ETF purposes from a number of companies, together with Blackrock (NYSE:), Invesco, Valkyrie, and Bitwise. The delay was introduced on Tuesday, following a congressional listening to the place SEC Chairman Gary Gensler confronted intense questioning.
Most of those companies had submitted their purposes for a spot Bitcoin ETF in June 2023. The primary determination to postpone the ETF was made in late August 2023. The SEC’s current assertion clarified that the initiation of proceedings doesn’t point out any conclusions concerning the points concerned.
The postponement got here a day after Gensler’s look at a US Congressional listening to on Wednesday, September twenty seventh. Gensler maintained his cautious stance on the crypto market through the listening to. He criticized crypto firms for his or her dealing with of buyer funds, suggesting that commingling of funds may result in poor outcomes.
Gensler’s feedback adopted the court docket listening to of Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of the now-bankrupt crypto trade FTX. The trade collapsed in November 2022 after experiences surfaced that its trade token – FTT constituted nearly all of its stability sheet. Throughout its chapter course of, allegations of funds commingling between Alameda and FTX additionally made headlines.
Whereas Gensler agreed that Bitcoin was not a safety, he shunned making a choice on its commodity standing. He additionally talked about that the fee is but to behave on the court docket’s order concerning its Grayscale determination. The crypto asset administration firm had tried to transform its GBTC right into a spot Bitcoin ETF, however this transfer was rejected by the SEC. The decide later deemed this rejection as “arbitrary and capricious”.
In the meantime, amid issues over a possible US authorities shutdown, Bitcoin worth has seen a rise during the last 24 hours. On-chain knowledge from Santiment reveals that Bitcoin wallets holding between 10 to 10,000 BTC at present have the very best quantity held in 2023, suggesting a excessive stage of confidence within the crypto asset market. Business observers speculate if this might be as a result of anticipated favorable developments round spot Bitcoin ETF approval in 2024.
The SEC’s delay on the filings from Blackrock and Bitwise was adopted by a delay on the Invesco submitting too on September 28, 2023. This makes it 4 filings delayed out of the seven purposes for spot ETF.
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