Crypto asset supervisor Bitwise has filed to record a spot Aptos exchange-traded fund within the US — a token created by a crew led by two former Fb (now Meta) workers in 2022.
Bitwise filed an S-1 registration assertion to record the Bitwise Aptos (APT) ETF on March 5, eight days after Bitwise indicated it could make such a submitting when it registered a belief linked to the Aptos ETF in Delaware on Feb. 28.
The Aptos submitting provides to the record of altcoins presently within the line to win the securities regulator’s approval.
Bitwise opted to not embrace a staking function for the proof-of-stake powered Aptos blockchain and listed Coinbase Custody because the proposed custodian of the spot Aptos ETF. It has but to specify which inventory change it could be listed on.
A proposed payment or ticker wasn’t included both. Bitwise may also must file a 19b-4 type for its Aptos ETF utility and for the SEC to acknowledge it earlier than the 240-day clock begins for the SEC to decide.
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The Aptos submitting marks Bitwise’s latest effort to expand from the spot Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) ETFs it presently has on provide. It has additionally just lately filed to record a spot Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP) and Dogecoin (DOGE) ETFs in current months.
Whereas Bitwise’s different US spot ETF filings have been aimed on the high tokens by market capitalization, Aptos seems to be an outlier, rating thirty sixth by market capitalization of $3.8 billion, according to CoinGecko.
Aptos was developed by Aptos Labs, an organization based by two former Fb workers, Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, in 2021.
It emerged as a possible “Solana killer” when it launched in October 2022 as a high-speed, low-cost layer-1 blockchain. Nevertheless, its market cap is presently solely one-nineteenth the dimensions of Solana’s, CoinGecko knowledge shows.
APT is up 14.4% over the past 24 hours to $6.25, CoinGecko knowledge shows.
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Aptos boasts the eleventh largest complete worth locked amongst blockchains at $1.03 billion, according to DefiLlama knowledge. Over $830 million of that consists of stablecoins.
Actual-world belongings corresponding to Franklin OnChain US Authorities Cash Fund (FOBXX) have additionally been tokenized on the Aptos blockchain.
Bitwise isn’t a stranger to Aptos, having launched an Aptos Staking ETP on Switzerland’s SIX Swiss Alternate in November that provides a 4.7% return on staking yield.
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