Refiled Applications, Other Bitcoin ETFs, and Coinbase Will Be Fidelity’s Monitoring Partner, Say
When resubmitting its spot bitcoin exchange-traded (ETF) fund applications for a number of prospective bitcoin ETF issuers on Friday, Cboe’s BZX Exchange identified cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase as the market for its surveillance-sharing agreement.In recent weeks, Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck, ARK Invest, Galaxy/Invesco, and BlackRock have submitted applications for spot bitcoin ETFs in an effort to establish a product that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has consistently denied.The other businesses are collaborating with Cboe, while BlackRock registered with Nasdaq. According to the Wall Street Journal, the SEC informed Nasdaq and Cboe on Friday that their applications were “inadequate” because they failed to identify the market that the fund sponsors are collaborating with on their surveillance-sharing arrangements.In its resubmitted applications, Cboe identified Coinbase as its partner for these surveillance-sharing arrangements, noting that the Coinbase platform “represents a substantial portion of U.S.-based and USD denominated Bitcoin trading.” “The Spot BTC SSA [surveillance-sharing agreement] is expected to have the hallmarks of a surveillance-sharing agreement between two members of the ISG,