Grayscale ber SEC att godkänna alla Bitcoin ETF-applikationer samtidigt

• Grayscale har bett SEC att godkänna alla Bitcoin ETF-applikationer samtidigt. 
• Invesco, BlackRock, Valkyrie, VanEck, Wisdom, Fidelity, and ARK Invest’s applications were amended to include SSAs.
• Grayscale pointed out that the SSAs “would neither satisfy nor be necessary” under the SEC’s standards.
• Approving the ETFs would be “a positive but sudden and significant change” in the SEC’s application of its standard.

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Det ledande kapitalförvaltningsföretaget Grayscale för kryptovaluta har bett United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) att godkänna alla ansökningar om offentlig notering av en Bitcoin Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) i USA samtidigt. Företaget som leds av Michael Sonnenshein hävdar att detta kommer att förhindra en enda ETF från att ha en majoritet av investerare. 

Enligt a posta on July 27, Grayscale said that while it awaits the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals, for the conversion of its flagship product GBTC to a Bitcoin spot ETF, the firm’s legal team at Davis Polk submitted a comment letter to GBTC’s pending 19b-4 filing, as well as seven other spot bitcoin ETF filings with newly-proposed surveillance sharing agreements (SSAs).

“We remain encouraged by the increased momentum around spot bitcoin ETF filings. Not only does this underscore the continued maturation of the bitcoin spot market, but it also reinforces our long-held belief that American investors should have access to spot bitcoin ETFs in the US,” said the post from Grayscale.

Enligt tidigare rapporter har Bitcoin ETF-applikationerna från Invesco, BlackRock, Valkyrie, VanEck, Wisdom, Fidelity och ARK Invest nyligen ändrats för att inkludera övervakningsdelningsavtal med den ledande kryptobörsen i landet, Coinbase. Den enda offentliga handelsplattformen kommer att ansvara för att dela information om sina handelsböcker och annan information som SEC försöker få tillgång till. 

Interestingly, Grayscale pointed out that the SSAs “would neither satisfy nor be necessary” under the SEC’s standards because Coinbase is not registered as a securities platform with the SEC nor with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a futures exchange.

Grayscale further pointed out that approving the Bitcoin spot ETFs would be “a positive but sudden and significant change” in the SEC’s application of its standard and would “improperly grant an unfairly discriminatory and prejudicial first-mover advantage to these proposals.”

Finally, the crypto asset management company claimed that there are “nearly one million investors across all 50 states who own GBTC, and GBTC’s conversion to an ETF would return billions of dollars in value to these investors.” 

Som tidigare rapporterats av Bitnation tillkännagav Grayscale Investments en ny affärsgren som heter Grayscale Funds Trust, a Delaware statutory trust structure that will be responsible for scaling the firm’s business around the world and managing its line of products in-house.

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