Grayscale has amended its regulatory filings seeking to transition. Ethereum Trust It will be converted to a spot exchange traded fund (ETF).
The company’s March 15 amendment strengthens its initial submission in several ways. This update supports the argument that shared monitoring within the CME ETH market is sufficient to protect against fraud and manipulation in the spot ETH market.
Grayscale’s latest revision includes a correlation analysis conducted by Coinbase as evidence of sufficient market correlation. Coinbase found that the CME ETH futures market has maintained a “consistently high correlation” with the spot Ethereum market for roughly the past three years.
This ratio is higher than the correlation the SEC found between the CME Bitcoin futures market and the spot Bitcoin market.
Grayscale’s amendment also expands the creation and redemption of ETF shares. Specifically, this section only discusses cash generation and repayment. Therefore, it is stated that authorized participants cannot purchase, hold, transfer or receive ETH.
According to the filing, Grayscale Ethereum Trust currently has $11.8 billion in assets under management (AUM), instead of $4.8 billion in AUM. Converting the fund to an ETF would create more than $1.73 billion in value, instead of the $1.6 billion previously estimated.
Grayscale ETF Supporters
Craig Salmgrayscale The Chief Legal Officer acknowledged the filing and highlighted the widely anticipated appeal of a spot Ethereum ETF. that wrote on Those investors “You want and are eligible to access Ethereum in the form of a spot Ethereum ETF.”
Salm added that the case for an Ethereum ETF is “just as strong as the case for a spot Bitcoin ETF.”
Before the spot Bitcoin ETF received approval in January of this year, market manipulation and creation/redemption methods were the main concerns. Grayscale’s latest amendment is very important because it addresses the same issues related to the Ethereum ETF.
Grayscale’s amendments come with reduced expectations of regulatory approval. Polymarket estimates the probability of Ethereum ETF approval by the end of May as 26% as of March 15.
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