Grayscale Court Victory Over SEC in Spot Bitcoin ETF Case Made Final
The SEC failed to appeal the court’s initial ruling in favor of Grayscale.
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The SEC failed to appeal the court’s initial ruling in favor of Grayscale.
The fund’s shares have traded at a discount to NAV since December 2021.
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The SEC has hours left to seek an appeal of the court order to erase the agency’s rejection of Grayscale’s trust-to-ETF conversion application.
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The SEC was last week ordered to review its prior rejection of the conversion of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), though not necessarily to approve it.
“The odds of a spot Bitcoin ETF launching this year are up to 65%, in our eyes, after a flurry of developments,” analysts James Seyffart and Eric Balchunas wrote. They previously assigned a 50% probability.
The discount has been narrowing on hopes the SEC might soon approve a spot bitcoin ETF.
The trust’s trading volume increased to $45 million in June.
Investors turned optimistic about Grayscale allowing redemptions in the future after BlackRock’s filing for spot bitcoin ETF last week, one analyst said.