REX Shares spot Solana staking exchange-traded fund (ETF) is poised to turn into the primary SOL ETF to start buying and selling in the USA, doubtlessly as early as this week.
Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas mentioned on June 28 that the corporate’s newest submitting with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) signifies it is able to go stay.
He wrote:
“Rex additionally filed an up to date prospectus, which completely crammed in. Add all of it up and it seems as if all programs go for imminent launch.”
Moreover, he shared a screenshot of an inside electronic mail suggesting the SEC’s feedback have been addressed. He mentioned:
“So they’re good to launch, it seems like. Wow.”
The proposed ETF, often known as the REX-Osprey Solana staking ETF, is designed to trace Solana’s market efficiency whereas producing further yield via onchain staking rewards.
If authorized, it might enable conventional buyers to realize publicity to staking earnings with out straight holding or managing digital property themselves.
ETF Retailer president Nate Geraci highlighted that REX Shares used an unconventional company construction for the fund, a C-corporation underneath the Funding Firm Act of 1940, generally often known as the “40 Act construction.”
This design sidesteps regulatory hurdles which have stalled different crypto staking ETF proposals underneath the usual 19b-4 submitting course of.
He wrote:
“Appears like [the SEC is] snug pushing ahead with their artistic ‘40 Act construction.”
Geraci beforehand referred to as this strategy a “regulatory end-around” that avoids the ETF rule’s restrictions on direct staking methods.
Bloomberg senior ETF analyst James Seyffart echoed Geraci, noting that the construction is “very uncommon within the ETF world,” giving REX Shares an edge as different suppliers proceed ready for SEC choices on related merchandise.
In a press release on Friday, REX Shares confirmed the product is “coming quickly,” calling it the “first-ever staked crypto ETF” within the U.S.
The agency additional acknowledged:
“A brand new period of yield-generating crypto publicity is right here.”
Staking ETFs have been broadly anticipated as the subsequent frontier in crypto funding merchandise. In March, BlackRock’s head of digital property, Robbie Mitchnick, described the agency’s Ethereum ETF as a “great success” however acknowledged it was “much less excellent” with out staking.
The SEC has not but issued a proper announcement or launch date for the REX-Osprey Solana staking ETF.
