Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Retailer, has predicted that asset administration behemoth BlackRock will file for an XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) as soon as Ripple’s long-lasting authorized battle with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) is concluded.
Geraci has additionally predicted that BlackRock’s Solana ETF proposal might be filed any day from now. On high of that, he additionally sees the monetary titan dabbling into crypto index ETFs.
As reported by U.At present, funding behemoth Franklin Templeton turned the most important participant to enter the XRP ETF race earlier this week. The San Mateo, California-headquartered asset supervisor has greater than $1.5 trillion value of belongings.
Previous to this, solely smaller (primarily crypto-native) corporations submitted their XRP ETF functions. Earlier this week, the SEC has postponed making its choice on the filings from crypto asset supervisor Grayscale and different corporations.
As reported by U.At present, Samara Cohen, BlackRock’s chief data officer, said that it might be “some time” earlier than the monetary titan would launch extra cryptocurrency ETFs other than the Bitcoin and Ethereum ones.
In December, Jay Jacobs, the US head of thematic and lively ETFs at BlackRock, clarified that the $10 trillion asset supervisor is at the moment targeted on its current cryptocurrency choices, that means that it isn’t eager about exploring new altcoin ETFs.
Nonetheless, Geraci doesn’t imagine that BlackRock will merely enable opponents to launch ETFs baked on the 2 altcoins “with none type of combat.”