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SEC has approved the Convert of Grayscale Crypto Trust to ETF


Asset manager Grayscale received approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday to convert the digital large cap of funds to a funds exchanged by the exchange (ETF).

The fund is made up of five largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization featured in CoinDesk five indexes.

Excessive 80.2% of weight funds are Bitcoin (BTC), followed by Ether (ETH) at 11.3%, while Solana (Sol) costs approximately 2.7% of funds, XRP (XRP) regulates more than 4.8%, and Cardano’s (ADA) (ADA) (ADA) weighs 0.81% in funding.

Investors have long been achieved Arbitrage opportunities for Grayscale crypto trusts.

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The US SEC has approved the converting of large-caps of Grayscale Crypto to an ETF. Source: Sec

These spreading windows are mostly due to the time of lock-up of crypto trusts of the Grayscale and the absence of in-kind redemption. However, arbitration opportunities have been reduced since Grayscale began converting private digital assets to be trusted to ETFs. Its Tuesday Letter Read:

“The goal of investing funds is for the value of shares to demonstrate the amount of digital fund -holder assets, ‘Fund components’ defined by defining their index prices and weightings within the fund, lower fund costs and other responsibilities.”

Grayscale was a pioneer of crypto investment vehicles and exposed investors to digital assets without the technical challenges of Crypto’s handling directly. Converting the trustees of its crypto to the exchanges exchanged by the exchange indicates the end of a period of time and the maturation of the industry.

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Grayscale took the conversion battle with the courts and won

In June 2022, Grayscale petitioned the court for the right to I -Convert Bitcoin’s trust in an ETF After the SEC rejects its application.

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Inflows for Bitcoin ETF, including Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, since June 12, 2025. Source: Farside Investor

The legal battle It took about a year, and in August 2023 a US judge decided that the SEC was “unreasonable and annoying” in its denial of the conversion request and Grayscale’s petition was granted.

Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust now trading as an ETF and regulates a cost ratio of 1.5%It makes it the most expensive Bitcoin ETF in the market and the highest Grossing BTC investment vehicle.

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