Odaily Planet Daily News: Tim McCourt, senior managing director of CME, said that an important step has been taken for the launch of XRP ETF. CME has XRP reference rates and real-time indexes, which is the first step in building this ecosystem. It has more than 50 real-time prices and reference rates. This is crucial for product providers like Bitwise because they can at least point to a fully regulated benchmark. A week ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission received Canary Capital's XRP ETF application. Canary is the second provider to apply for XRP ETF after Bitwise Asset Management. (Cointelegraph)