Digital asset supervisor Bitwise has filed to checklist a spot Close to exchange-traded fund with the US Securities and Trade Fee, including to a rising checklist of altcoins at the moment vying to win regulatory approval.
The Bitwise Close to (NEAR) ETF will monitor the value actions of the NEAR token, minus bills, by way of a standard brokerage, Bitwise’s Might 6 registration assertion shows.
Bitwise named Coinbase Custody because the proposed custodian of the Bitwise NEAR ETF. The administration price, ticker and inventory trade it seeks to checklist on weren’t named but.
Bitwise should additionally file a 19b-4 submitting with the SEC to kickstart the regulator’s approval course of for the fund. The crypto native asset supervisor indicated it might make such a submitting when it registered a belief linked to the NEAR ETF in Delaware on April 28.
NEAR joins a pile of spot crypto ETFs on the SEC’s desk
The SEC now has a minimum of a dozen spot crypto ETFs to evaluation in 2025, together with functions for Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Cardano (ADA), Hedera (HBAR), Polkadot (DOT), Chainlink (LINK), Avalanche (AVAX), Aptos (APT) and Sui (SUI).
Bitwise already has functions out for a spot DOGE, SOL, and XRP ETFs, and likewise has an authorized spot Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) ETF, that are listed on the NYSE Arca and have attracted a mixed $2.35 billion in web inflows since launching final 12 months.
NEAR — the token powering the layer-1 Near blockchain — is the forty fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap at $2.73 billion, CoinGecko data exhibits.
The Close to blockchain was as soon as touted as an Ethereum killer and is taken into account by its proponents as an answer to the “blockchain trilemma” — the problem of attaining all three crucial elements of blockchain performance: safety, scalability and decentralization.
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By means of Nightshade sharding, Close to can course of as much as 100,000 transactions per second and is secured by 265 energetic validators, Nearblocks.io data exhibits.
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