Gensler accused crypto exchanges of trading against their customers.<\/p>\n
The Ethereum community may be waiting longer than initially expected for spot Ether ETFs to enter the market.<\/p>\n
In a June 6 appearance<\/a> on CNBC, Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said it will \u201ctake some time\u201d for the agency to greenlight spot Ether ETF applicants\u2019 S-1 registration statements.<\/p>\n The S-1 forms\u2019 passage is the final obstacle standing in the way of the funds going live after the SEC approved the prospective funds\u2019 19b-4 filings<\/a> on May 23. However, Gensler gave no indication that the S-1 filings would ultimately be knocked back.<\/p>\n \u201cEthereum [futures] had been traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange\u2026 for three plus years, and the staff looked at that closely,\u201d Gensler said. \u201cThe underlying exchange-traded products still need to go through a process to have the disclosure about that, and that will take some time, but they are working on that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Gensler comments suggest that some analysts may have been overly optimistic in predicting that the spot Ether ETFs could launch within a matter of weeks. Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, recently predicted<\/a> that the funds could debut sometime around early July. <\/p>\n By contrast, Nate Geraci, co-founder of the ETF Institute, posted<\/a> that it could take up to three months for the spot Ether ETFs to begin trading.<\/p>\n The SEC\u2019s abrupt preliminary approval of spot Ether ETFs came as a shock to analysts and traders last month.<\/p>\n For several months, onlookers anticipated that the funds would be rejected, citing a lack of cooperation<\/a> from the SEC when meeting with applicants in the months leading up to the May deadline.<\/p>\n The SEC has notoriously pursued a regulation-by-enforcement<\/a> campaign targeting the web3 industry since Gensler’s appointment in 2021, with the agency also appearing determined to classify Ether as a securities asset<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n However, Gensler has far from warmed to the web3 industry since approving the Ethereum ETFs’ 19b-4 filings, with the SEC chairperson criticizing the broader digital asset markets for failing to maintain adequate disclosure and transparency.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, without prejudging anyone, these tokens\u2026 have not given you the disclosures that you not only need to make your investment decisions, but are also required by the law,\u201d Gensler told CNBC.<\/p>\n Gensler went on to accuse cryptocurrency exchanges of failing to abide by the same regulations expected of platforms facilitating trade in mainstream assets, even accusing digital asset venues of actively trading against their users.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat President Roosevelt did was he created [the SEC] so that you, the investors, get disclosure\u2026 and secondly, that exchanges\u2026 get properly regulated to protect against fraud and manipulation,” Gensler said. \u201cThese crypto exchanges are doing things we would never allow The New York Stock Exchange to do \u2014 our laws don\u2019t allow you to trade against your customers.\u201d<\/p>\n The SEC has brought charges against several leading cryptocurrency exchanges, including Coinbase<\/a>, Binance<\/a>, and Kraken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gensler accused crypto exchanges of trading against their customers. The Ethereum community may be waiting longer than initially expected for spot Ether ETFs to enter the market. In a June 6 appearance on CNBC, Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said it will \u201ctake some time\u201d for the agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-318015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318018,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318015\/revisions\/318018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}