Digital asset supervisor Bitwise has filed to checklist a spot Close to exchange-traded fund with the US Securities and Change Fee, including to a rising checklist of altcoins at the moment vying to win regulatory approval.
The Bitwise Close to (NEAR) ETF will observe the worth actions of the NEAR token, minus bills, via a standard brokerage, Bitwise’s Might 6 registration assertion exhibits.
Bitwise named Coinbase Custody because the proposed custodian of the Bitwise NEAR ETF. The administration charge, 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 will 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 overview 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 in addition 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 yr.
NEAR — the token powering the layer-1 Close to blockchain — is the forty fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap at $2.73 billion, CoinGecko information 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 vital features of blockchain efficiency: safety, scalability and decentralization.
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By Nightshade sharding, Close to can course of as much as 100,000 transactions per second and is secured by 265 lively validators, Nearblocks.io information exhibits.
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