Nashville-based asset supervisor Canary Capital filed an S-1 kind for a Litecoin (LTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the US Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) on Oct. 15.
Canary’s submitting is the primary utility for a Litecoin-linked spot ETF within the US and comes lower than per week after the asset supervisor’s XRP ETF submitting on Oct. 8.
Canary Capital CEO and founder Steven McClurg was beforehand Valkyrie Investments chief funding officer, having co-founded the asset supervisor together with Leah Wald.
Completely different from Solana ETF filings
Alex Thorn, head of analysis at Galaxy Digital, informed CryptoSlate that Litecoin is usually thought-about to have been a “honest launch,” that means there was no pre-mine or token sale.
Moreover, as a result of Litecoin relies on a proof-of-work consensus mannequin, there was no providing of LTC by any entity to public or personal buyers. Thorn added:
“The SEC hasn’t acknowledged its place on the matter, however it’s unlikely that Litecoin may very well be thought-about to have been provided as a safety since there was no providing in any respect. Thus, issuers ought to theoretically have the identical pathway to launch spot-based Litecoin ETFs in america as they did for Bitcoin.”
In response to Thorn, the identical can’t be mentioned about spot Solana ETFs for the reason that blockchain relies on a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm and carried out a token sale.
Thorn acknowledged that this makes the preliminary launch truth sample of Solana totally different from Bitcoin and Litecoin. Moreover, the SEC presently alleges in its lawsuit towards Coinbase that SOL is a “crypto asset safety.”
Thorn mentioned:
“[This] is why some analysts have recommended that SOL ETF filings are bets on a Trump victory in November, as a change within the SEC’s method to classifying crypto belongings as securities would probably be required earlier than the company would approve the itemizing of SOL ETFs.”
Market dominated by Grayscale
In response to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, ETPs like CoinShares’ LITE in Switzerland and ETC Group’s ELTC in Germany already maintain Litecoin. In the meantime, the US market is presently solely tapped by the Grayscale Litecoin Belief (LTCN).
In response to a CoinShares report, the LTC funds provided in Europe maintain $11.5 million in mixed belongings below administration (AUM), which represents lower than 10% of the overall AUM of Litecoin-related ETPs globally.
In the meantime, LTCN has $127.4 million in AUM, which makes up the remaining 93% of the cash invested in Litecoin-related ETPs orldwide.
