The USA Securities and Alternate Fee has delayed its resolution on Grayscale’s proposed spot ETFs for Avalanche and Cardano, extending the evaluate interval to fifteen July 2025.
A Could 28 press launch from the Fee stated it was applicable to designate an extended interval to think about the proposed rule change. The SEC made the designation underneath Part 19(b)(2) of the Securities Alternate Act of 1934, which permits for extensions past the preliminary 45-day evaluate window.
Nasdaq filed the Avalanche ETF proposal on 27 March 2025 and seeks to checklist and commerce shares of the Grayscale Avalanche Belief underneath Nasdaq Rule 5711(d), which governs Commodity-Based mostly Belief Shares.
The proposed rule change was revealed within the Federal Register on 16 February 2025, triggering the statutory evaluate timeline. The unique 45-day resolution deadline was set for 31 Could 2025.
Individually, Grayscale’s Cardano ETF proposal was submitted via NYSE Arca on 10 February 2025, and plans to transform the present Grayscale Cardano Belief right into a spot ETF.
An amended model of the submitting was submitted on 20 February and later revealed for public touch upon 28 February, formally initiating a 240-day evaluate window that ends on 22 October 2025.
With the delay now confirmed, the subsequent key date within the approval course of for each ETFs is 15 July 2025, when the Fee should both approve, reject, or provoke proceedings to additional consider the proposals.
Public feedback stay open throughout this time, with the SEC actively soliciting suggestions on the functions.
No altcoin ETF has secured approval up to now, which reaffirms the SEC’s measured strategy towards crypto merchandise past Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Beneath its new management, the Fee has prolonged evaluate intervals for a number of different cryptocurrency-based ETFs, together with these for Solana, XRP, and Ethereum staking merchandise.
Earlier this month, the SEC postponed choices on 4 Solana ETF filings from Bitwise, 21Shares, VanEck, and Canary, stating it will “institute proceedings” to evaluate whether or not these proposals met regulatory requirements.
Analysts recommend that these delays are a part of the SEC’s commonplace evaluate course of for modern monetary merchandise, corresponding to crypto ETFs.
Bloomberg ETF professional James Seyffart has beforehand defined that the regulator typically takes the total 240 days to guage such filings, indicating that ultimate choices on many of those ETFs could not happen earlier than October 2025.
