The inclusion of staking in filings for Ether ETFs could have been an indication that regulators want to keep a back door open for future scrutiny.
) exchange-traded funds s) is full of controversies and questions. To begin with, the crypto industry can’t even agree on whether the news constitutes an approval per se — the SEC is yet to clear the products for trading, after all.. At best, this is a sign that the product providers have come to a truce with the securities watchdog. More likely, though, it indicates the regulator’s wish to keep a back door open for further scrutiny.
This debate has been raging for a long while now, so the capitulation we saw from the SEC is certainly suspicious. It feels like the agency begrudgingly conceded defeat on the ETFs knowing that it still has another tool left in its arsenal. As such, it is certainly too early for Ethereum proponents to proclaim a full victory.At the very least, we would need to see the approval of the S-1 filings, which would allow the ETFs to actually trade.
Spot ETH ETF or not, most altcoins will remain highly speculative investments driven by sentiment and retail interest. In fact, even for Ethereum itself, institutional interest is not guaranteed like it was for Bitcoin. The same level of demand is simply not there for spot ETH ETFs as we’re seeing with Bitcoin ETFs. And, given the ongoing uncertainty around staking, institutional investors are likely to take an even more cautious approach.
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