After well-nigh two years, Bitwise Nugget Management has once once more applied with the United States Securities and Substitution Commission to create a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

In a Thursday Twitter announcement from Bitwise principal investment officer Matt Hougan, the investment firm will be pursuing a Bitcoin (BTC) ETF with NYSE Arca that holds "actual BTC," and not derivatives or other indirect exposure to cryptocurrencies. Co-ordinate to Hougan, the Bitwise team has spent more than than two years analyzing the house's ability to "surveil and enforce" whatsoever attempts at manipulation and concluded that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, is a "regulated market of pregnant size" for the crypto market.

"The market has matured," said the Bitwise CIO. "An actual BTC ETF can now be approved."

The company's filing with the SEC shows it plans to register 1,000 shares of its Bitwise Bitcoin ETP Trust with a proposed maximum offering price of $25. The SEC filing states the company volition use the CME U.South. Reference Charge per unit as a price reference for Bitcoin in the trust.

Bitwise first practical for a Bitcoin ETF registration with the SEC in January 2022. The regulator rejected the proposal in October 2022, merely subsequently said information technology would be reviewing its decision. Bitwise withdrew its application the following twelvemonth afterwards the SEC essentially kept the proposal on standby. At the time, Hougan said Bitwise planned to refile "at an appropriate time" after the business firm had addressed some of the bureau'south concerns in the initial filing.

Though Bitwise has not refiled its application with the SEC for an exchange-traded fund with direct exposure to Bitcoin since that 2022 withdrawal, the company did launch a Crypto Industry Innovators ETF in May, which offers investors exposure to some of the biggest publicly listed firms operating in the blockchain and crypto industry. The fund was based on Bitwise's Crypto Industry Innovators thirty Index, which tracks top firms "engaged in actual, textile activeness in the crypto sector."

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Though SEC Gary Gensler has hinted that he would be more open to accepting ETFs based on crypto futures rather than through direct exposure, the U.Southward. regulatory agency has nevertheless to approve any application for a physically-backed BTC ETF. Last week, however, the SEC did approve an application for the Volt Crypto Industry Revolution and Tech ETF, which provides investors with access to companies with significant exposure to Bitcoin.