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Accelerating Launch, VanEck and Grayscale Compact BNB ETF Amendments
The competition to launch the first altcoin spot-based Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) in the United States (US) has now entered a critical phase. According to the latest SEC documents on Friday (5/15), two giant asset managers, VanEck and Grayscale, simultaneously filed new amendments for their BNB ETF proposals. VanEck officially submitted Amendment No. 5 for the VanEck BNB ETF (VBNB) product, while Grayscale followed with Amendment No. 2 for the Grayscale BNB ETF (GBNB), both of which are planned to be listed on the Nasdaq exchange.
ETF analyst from Bloomberg Intelligence, James Seyffart, stated that this parallel movement indicates that both issuers are responding to intensive feedback from the SEC in order to pursue a launch soon. However, in their latest drafts, both VanEck and Grayscale agreed to exclude staking features in the initial launch to avoid regulatory uncertainties related to securities classification in the US. This tactical move is projected to smooth the way for BNB to become the next major cryptocurrency asset to receive the green light for spot ETFs after Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The surge in filing amendments for alternative products signals that US institutional liquidity is now preparing for aggressive diversification into the dApp ecosystem and layer-1 protocols beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.