{"id":4982,"date":"2025-01-02T03:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2025-01-02T03:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T03:16:49","slug":"sec-commissioner-predicts-early-improvements-for-crypto-etfs-under-new-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"SEC Commissioner predicts early improvements for crypto ETFs under new leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crypto exchange-traded funds (ETF) changes, such as in-kind redemptions and staking permission for Ethereum (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">ETH<\/a>) products, are likely to happen \u201cearly on\u201d under a new US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEC Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/hester-peirce\/\">Hester Peirce<\/a> shared during an<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/coinage_media\/status\/1870084709503643873\">interview<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Coinage that these matters may arrive for a regulator review as soon as Paul Atkins takes the role of chairperson. She added:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m open to reconsidering both in-kind [redemptions] and staking to think about, again, how can you allow people to design the products in a way that is most useful to the investors in those products.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peirce, commonly known as the \u201cCrypto Mom \u201d due to her pro-crypto stance, also said it is \u201ceasier\u201d to approve such changes when the majority of Commissioners want things \u201cto go through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloomberg senior ETF analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/eric-balchunas\/\">Eric Balchunas<\/a> labeled Peirce\u2019s brief remarks as \u201c<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1870093842927493300\">great<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1870093156546482532\">highlighting her interest<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in making publicly traded crypto products more useful to investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balchunas stated that discussions may occur regarding these changes, but the most important thing is the \u201cSEC gods\u201d being interested in them. As a result, the regulator will work out the legal basis for the improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, he reiterated his optimism about the new SEC administration, highlighting his<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bloomberg-analysts-expects-wave-of-crypto-etfs-next-year-but-some-hurdles-remain\/\">recent prediction<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that a \u201cwave\u201d of crypto ETFs is a likely scenario for next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Accelerated development<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Balchunas and his fellow Bloomberg ETF analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/james-seyffart\/\">James Seyffart<\/a> predicted that new crypto ETF approvals will occur next year. Yet, the developments are happening at an accelerated pace.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC recently approved the hybrid ETFs filed by Hashdex and Franklin Templeton, which will track Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">BTC<\/a>) and ETH simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Despite happening earlier than predicted by the analysts, the green light is in tandem with their prediction, which expected these products to be the first ones shipped to the market.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prediction, the next ETFs to follow are Litecoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/litecoin\/\">LTC<\/a>) and Hedera (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/hedera\/\">HBAR<\/a>). At the same time, Solana (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/solana\/\">SOL<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/xrp\/\">XRP<\/a> funds might have to wait until their regulatory status becomes clearer.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/sec-commissioner-predicts-early-improvements-for-crypto-etfs-under-new-leadership\/\">SEC Commissioner predicts early improvements for crypto ETFs under new leadership<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/\">CryptoSlate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto exchange-traded funds (ETF) changes, such as in-kind redemptions and staking permission for Ethereum (ETH) products, are likely to happen \u201cearly on\u201d under a new US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) administration. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce shared during an interview for Coinage that these matters may arrive for a regulator review as soon as Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}