VanEck's CEO and others are not feeling optimistic that the SEC will greenlight spot Ethereum ETFs, CNBC reports.
Firms that gained the Sec urities and Exchange Commission's approval for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund are not feeling very confident that the agency will greenlight proposals for an ether product, according to reporting from CNBC.
VanEck CEO Jan van Eck told CNBC in an interview posted on Tuesday that he expected the VanEck Ethereum ETF to be rejected in May – the first deadline approaching for when the SEC will decide whether to allow those products to pass. “The way the legal process goes is the regulators will give you comments on your application, and that happened for weeks and weeks before the bitcoin ETFs — and right now, pins are dropping as far as ethereum is concerned,” van Eck told CNBC.
Big-name firms, including Fidelity and BlackRock, have applied for a spot ether ETF over the last few months. Optimism gained steam after the SEC approved 11 spot bitcoin ETFs in January, but has since dwindled over the past few weeks. CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti also told CNBC he was pessimistic about the chances of getting the go-ahead from the SEC. Mognetti said he didn't expect approvals at all this year.Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas lowered his estimate last month of the chances of a spot Ethereum ETF approval by May from about 70% to 30%. The cycle for a spot Ethereum ETF felt like the opposite of when spot bitcoin ETFs were approved, Balchunas had said.
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