🚨 SEC JUST DROPPED A QUIET BOMB ON CRYPTO ETFS
New proposed rule from NYSE Arca and the SEC is asking for public comments.
Translation: they're taking it seriously.
The rule would force crypto ETFs to hold at least 85% in "approved" crypto assets.
The named tokens: $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $XRP.
That's four. Not fifty. Not a hundred.
Everything else gets capped at 15% of the fund.
Here's the underdiscussed angle:
This creates a regulatory moat around the top four assets.
Institutions buying ETFs? They'll overwhelmingly flow into funds packed with approved tokens.
Altcoins outside the 85% rule become second-class holdings.
The filing also includes a 95% NAV exception for certain non-qualifying crypto but the bar is ridiculously high.
This is the SEC slowly building a wall.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are already over the fence. Solana and XRP just got a ladder.
Everything else? Looking in from outside.
Comments are open. But the direction is clear.
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