A full of 12 plus managers person filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF with the U.S. SEC, with the archetypal model for support from the SEC opening connected Nov. 8.

With the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s archetypal model opening up for the support of a spot Bitcoin ETF, analysts person noted that adjacent if the SEC approves a spot Bitcoin ETF, it volition beryllium a period earlier the existent launch.
The expected hold successful motorboat pursuing a imaginable SEC support would beryllium owed to the two-step process successful launching an ETF. For an issuer to commencement a Bitcoin ETF, they indispensable get SEC support from the Trading and Markets part connected its 19b-4 filing and the Corporate Finance part connected the S-1 filing oregon prospectus.
The main absorption of Corporate Finance includes money operations details and hazard disclosures. To date, of the 12 Bitcoin ETF applications, 9 issuers person submitted revised prospectuses showing they person communicated with Corporate Finance. Market analysts judge the Bitcoin ETF motorboat whitethorn get delayed if the SEC approves the 19b-4 approvals earlier prospectus documents are signed off.
Bloomberg ETF expert James Seyffart notified that adjacent if 19b-4 is approved, S-1s support could instrumentality weeks oregon months betwixt support and launch.
What Scott said: There are TWO paths that request to beryllium completed for an ETF launch. Even if 19b-4 is approved, S-1s inactive request motion disconnected from part of Corp Fin. No motion that's done yet. Possible and adjacent apt that determination could beryllium weeks oregon adjacent months betwixt support & motorboat https://t.co/LZSdutmlT8 pic.twitter.com/7OLj5HjSDy
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) November 8, 2023There is an 8-day model for the SEC, starting connected Nov. 8 and ending connected Nov 17, to o.k. the archetypal spot Bitcoin ETF. Although marketplace pundits person accrued the chances of support to 90%, they judge support won't travel earlier aboriginal adjacent year.
New Research enactment from maine today. We inactive judge 90% accidental by Jan 10 for spot #Bitcoin ETF approvals. But if it comes earlier we are entering a model wherever a question of support orders for each the existent applicants *COULD* hap pic.twitter.com/u6dBva1ytD
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) November 8, 2023The SEC had earlier extended the deadline for remark connected the spot Bitcoin ETF until Nov. 8 for the remark period.
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The spot Bitcoin ETF contention successful the U.S. began erstwhile the world’s largest plus manager, BlackRock, filed its application. While Fidelity and a fewer different plus managers person besides filed for spot Bitcoin ETFs, astir faced rejections oregon withdrew their applications.
The 2023-24 cycle, however, has prompted galore marketplace pundits to foretell a imaginable support for the spot ETF giving it arsenic precocious arsenic 90% chance.