{"id":42115,"date":"2021-05-08T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42115"},"modified":"2025-08-30T21:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:46:28","slug":"vaneck-applies-to-sec-for-ethereum-based-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/vaneck-applies-to-sec-for-ethereum-based-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"VanEck applies to SEC for Ethereum-based ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment company VanEck has filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1860788\/000093041321001047\/c101690_s1.htm#c101690_risk1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">application<\/a> with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch an Ethereum-based exchange-traded fund (ETF).<\/p>\n<p>If the ETF launches, investors will gain access to the second-largest cryptocurrency via traditional exchanges. According to the document, VanEck Ethereum Trust shares will trade on Cboe BZX.<\/p>\n<p>On May 6, the price of Ethereum reached a new all-time high above $3,600.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Canadian regulators <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/canada-approves-worlds-first-ethereum-based-etfs\">approved the launch<\/a> of the world&#8217;s first Ethereum ETFs from Purpose Investments, CI Global Asset Management and Evolve Funds. On April 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/toronto-stock-exchange-begins-trading-ethereum-based-etfs\">the listing<\/a> of the financial instruments on the Toronto Stock Exchange occurred.<\/p>\n<p>On April 24, 3iQ Corp and CoinShares <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/canada-approves-ethereum-based-etf-from-3iq-corp-and-coinshares\">launched<\/a> another Ethereum ETF in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>On April 28, the SEC <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sec-delays-vanecks-bid-to-launch-a-bitcoin-etf-until-june-2021\">delayed consideration<\/a> of VanEck&#8217;s bid to launch a Bitcoin-based ETF until June 17.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, VanEck would launch the first Bitcoin ETF in the United States. The SEC is also reviewing applications from <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sec-begins-review-of-wisdomtrees-bid-to-launch-a-bitcoin-etf\">WisdomTree<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sec-begins-review-of-kryptoins-bid-to-launch-a-bitcoin-etf\">Kryptoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment company VanEck has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an Ethereum-based exchange-traded fund (ETF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,128,1211,783],"class_list":["post-42115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-sec","tag-stock-market","tag-vaneck"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42117,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42115\/revisions\/42117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}