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United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler suggested to lawmakers that the regulator could sign off on the final approvals for listing and trading shares of spot Ether (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price">ETH</a>) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) within three months.
In a June 13 hearing of the Senate Banking Committee discussing U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2025 budget requests for the SEC, Gensler <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2025-budget-requests-for-the-us-securities-and-exchange-commission-and-the-commodity-futures-trading-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">said</a> he expected the commission to approve S-1 registration statements for asset managers “sometime over the course of this summer.” On May 23, the SEC <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-spot-ether-etf-approved">approved 19b-4 filings</a> from eight companies, but the applications require S-1 approvals before the ETFs can begin trading on U.S. exchanges.
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Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty questioned Gensler on why the commission hadn’t “fully approved Ether ETFs,” claiming the SEC chair was not prioritizing a “constructive set of rules of the road for the crypto industry.” Though Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Rostin Behmam said Ether was a commodity in response to Senator Hagerty, Gensler did not directly answer the question but pivoted to Ether ETFs.&nbsp;
“The Ethereum exchange-traded product of filings that were in front of us from stock exchanges — I think there were eight or nine of them — were all jointly approved,” said Gensler. “Individual issuers still are working through the registration process that’s working smoothly, and I would envision sometime over the course of this summer...”
<h2 id="final-ether-etf-approval-could-take-weeks">Final Ether ETF approval could take weeks</h2>
The SEC chair <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ether-etf-approvals-sec-time-gary-gensler">said in a June 5 interview</a> that final spot Ether ETF approvals would “take some time” after greenlighting 19b-4 filings. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas suggested that <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ether-etf-launch-june-possible-blackrock-amended-s-1">launching the Ether products</a> on U.S. exchanges in June was possible but predicted final SEC approvals by July 4.
“July was and is a complete guess,” <a href="https://x.com/JSeyff/status/1801274737995166160" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">said</a> ETF analyst James Seyffart on X in response to Gensler’s comments. “But I was more confident in saying that ETH ETFs will launch at some point this summer. That was sort of a given.”
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-approves-ether-etf-without-gensler-vote">Spot Ether ETFs approved, but Gary Gensler didn’t vote for them — Here’s why</a>
On Jan. 10, the SEC approved 194-b filings for spot Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price">BTC</a>) ETFs. The investment vehicles <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/spot-bitcoin-etf-trading-tomorrow-bloomberg-analyst">began trading on Jan. 11</a> as the SEC signed off on the effective S-1 prospectuses. 
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust was one of the first ETFs to begin trading on the Nasdaq. The SEC has signed off on the asset manager’s 19b-4 filing — in addition to applications from Fidelity, Grayscale, Bitwise, VanEck, Ark, Invesco Galaxy and Franklin Templeton — but it’s unclear which company will have the first bite at the apple once the S-1 registration statements go through.
Magazine: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/godzilla-vs-kong-can-sec-prevail-against-crypto-legal-firepower/">Godzilla vs. Kong: SEC faces fierce battle against crypto’s legal firepower</a>

SEC chair sees spot Ether ETF S-1 approvals sometime in summer 2024

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