Well now, Matt Hougan, the Big Chief Investment Whiz at Bitwise, reckons the Securities and Exchange Commission (or SEC, for them alphabet folks) is fixin’ to roll out “generic listing standards” for them fancy crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs). He says this might just throw open the barn doors and let a whole herd of new spot offerings stampede in come October.
Bitwise Bigwig Says SEC’s New Rules Could Chop Red Tape Like a Hot Knife Through Butter and Fill Crypto Menus Faster Than You Can Say “Dogecoin”
Hougan’s memo swings the pendulum from that slowpoke, case-by-case approval shuffle to a slick 75-day greenlight route-so long as your crypto’s got futures trading on some U.S. regulated rodeos like CME, Cboe, or the Coinbase Derivatives Exchange.
This crafty recipe might let spot ETPs mosey out for solana, Solana, XRP, chainlink, cardano, avalanche, polkadot, hedera, dogecoin, shiba inu, litecoin, and the ever-famous bitcoin cash. Ol’ Matt says it’s sorta like the 2019 “ETF Rule” that turned ETF launches from a slog through molasses into a well-oiled assembly line.
Before that gem of a rule, they were knocking out about 117 launches a year; after, it shot up to a whopping 370 or so, with a posse of new issuers riding in. But before you go counting your chickens or bitcoins, Matt warns-opening the floodgates don’t always mean the money will rush in like a river after a storm.
Take those spot ethereum ETPs in June 2024-they only started pulling in real assets a few months later, once folks got all hot and bothered over stablecoins and tokenization. Hougan’s got a point-they say products don’t whip up demand; they mosey in only when demand’s already hollerin’.
What these “generic standards” really do is take the stickiness outta the gettin’-there. It’s like buyin’ a stock ticker instead of wranglin’ wallets and exchanges-making it easier for the big money folks to hop on board when the crypto trail looks promising. Plus, seeing those crypto tickers rubbing elbows with your Grandma’s trusty funds might just make crypto seem a mite less like witchcraft.
Matt paints this here regulatory turn as a coming-of-age tale, not the happy-ever-after. As futures listings grow, so’ll the all-you-can-eat buffet of ETPs-blue-chip heroes to downright silly meme coins. But don’t forget, the real fireworks depend on the grand puppeteers of the economy: rates, liquidity, and whether crypto’s fancy ideas ever step off the page and into the wild, wild world.
For now, tip your hats to the pregame: these pending rules might just set the table for a ruckus at year-end, but the scoreboard’s gonna depend on how the economy’s dance plays out-and whether crypto can turn talk into action, or just keep spinning tall tales. 🚀🤠
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2025-09-17 01:49