Hong Kong has formally accepted its first Solana spot exchange-traded fund (ETF), marking the third crypto spot ETF accepted by town after Bitcoin and Ethereum.
On Wednesday, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Fee (SFC) granted approval for the China Asset Administration (Hong Kong) Solana ETF, which might be listed on the Hong Kong Inventory Alternate, according to a report by the Hong Kong Financial Instances.
The product will embrace each RMB counters and USD counters, that means it may be traded and settled in each currencies. Every buying and selling unit will encompass 100 shares, with a minimal funding of round $100. The fund is predicted to debut on Oct. 27.
The ETF’s digital asset buying and selling platform might be operated by OSL Alternate, whereas OSL Digital Securities will function the sub-custodian. ChinaAMC has set a administration charge of 0.99%, with custody and administrative charges capped at 1% of the sub-fund’s internet asset worth, leading to an estimated annual expense ratio of 1.99%.
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Hong Kong strengthens lead in crypto ETFs
ChinaAMC (Hong Kong) is already identified for launching Asia’s first Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) spot ETFs, each of which were approved earlier this year.
Hong Kong’s approval of spot Solana (SOL) ETFs comes amid related strikes by different jurisdictions. Final yr, Brazil became the first country to formally debut buying and selling of its spot Solana ETF on the Brazilian inventory alternate, forward of all the opposite world jurisdictions.
In April, spot Solana ETFs also launched in Canada. On the time, the Ontario Securities Fee (OSC) greenlighted asset managers Objective, Evolve, CI and 3iQ to situation ETFs holding Solana.
Extra lately, Kazakhstan launched its first spot Bitcoin ETF, the Fonte Bitcoin Alternate Traded Fund (BETF), on the Astana Worldwide Alternate, with BitGo serving because the regulated crypto custodian.
In the meantime, the USA stays notably behind, with no confirmed Solana spot ETF accepted or launched to this point.
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Bitwise chief funding officer Matt Hougan believes Solana is poised to become the first blockchain for stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization, calling it “the brand new Wall Road.”
Talking with the Solana Basis’s Akshay BD earlier this month, Hougan stated conventional finance gamers see Bitcoin as too summary, however acknowledge the large potential of stablecoins to remodel funds and tokenization to revolutionize markets for shares, bonds, commodities and actual property.
Hougan defined that when institutional traders consider blockchain infrastructure, Solana’s velocity, throughput and transaction finality make it particularly interesting.
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