US SEC will not appeal court decision on Grayscale’s spot Bitcoin ETF application: Report

• The SEC has determined to not enchantment the court docket’s judgment within the spot Bitcoin ETF Grayscale vs SEC case
• Which means that the fee must revisit its resolution on rejecting the appliance to covert GBTC to identify Bitcoin ETF

America Securities and Fee (SEC) has reportedly determined to steer clear of one other authorized battle with Grayscale Investments – a number one digital asset administration firm. In accordance with Reuters’ sources, the report comes hours earlier than the deadline to file for an enchantment closes. This implies the SEC shall be compelled to work with Grayscale on its spot Bitcoin ETF utility.

Curiously, this SEC transfer has had little to no impact on the worth of the king coin – Bitcoin [BTC]. In accordance with CoinMarketCap, at press time, Bitcoin was buying and selling at $26,802.61 with a market cap of over $523 billion.

Whereas the coin did breach the $27,000 after the information broke, it failed to carry this floor and has left no traces of great adjustments previously hour or previous day. Whereas, the seven-day chart confirmed a decline of practically 4%.

SEC versus Grayscale for a spot Bitcoin ETF

Traditionally, the SEC has been infamous for rejecting any and all functions for a spot Bitcoin ETF. And, this was no matter whether or not the submitting was made by a legacy fund supervisor. Nonetheless, the sport modified this 12 months when funding big – Blackrock utilized for a spot Bitcoin ETF. This transfer noticed a revival of curiosity with a number of different corporations submitting their utility as nicely.

Furthermore, the D.C. Circuit Court docket of Appeals judgment within the case of Grayscale versus SEC has given the market hope of lastly seeing an accredited spot BTC ETF. In August 2023, the decide dominated that the SEC’s resolution to reject Grayscale’s utility to transform its GBTC to a spot Bitcoin ETF was “arbitrary and capricious”. The decide additionally remarked that the SEC “lately accredited the buying and selling of two Bitcoin futures funds on nationwide exchanges however denied approval of Grayscale’s Bitcoin fund.”

Whereas the transfer to not enchantment does add renewed hope, the fee nonetheless holds the proper to reject the appliance once more. Nonetheless, Grayscale would as soon as once more oppose such a choice in court docket.

At the moment, other than Grayscale’s utility, the SEC sits on a number of spot Bitcoin ETF functions. This consists of the functions from Blackrock, Constancy, Valkyrie, and others. The fee has already delayed making a choice on these functions twice.