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Accelerating Launch, VanEck and Grayscale Compact BNB ETF Amendments
Competition to launch the first altcoin spot-based Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) in the United States (US) has now entered a critical phase. Based on the latest SEC documents released on Friday (15/5) local time, two major asset managers, VanEck and Grayscale, simultaneously filed new amendments for their BNB ETF proposals. VanEck officially submitted Amendment No. 5 for its VanEck BNB ETF (VBNB), 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 at Bloomberg Intelligence, James Seyffart, said that this parallel movement indicates that both issuers are responding to intense feedback from the SEC in order to pursue a launch in the near term. That said, in their latest drafts, both VanEck and Grayscale agree to exclude staking features from the initial launch to avoid regulatory uncertainty related to the classification of securities in the US. This tactical move is projected to clear the way for BNB to become the next major cryptocurrency asset to receive approval for spot ETFs after Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The surge in filings for these alternative products is a strong signal that US institutional liquidity is now preparing to aggressively diversify into the dApp ecosystem beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.