Another Round of Spot Bitcoin ETF Rejections Coming, According to BitGo CEO Mike Belshe – Here’s Why

The chief government of crypto custodian BitGo says that the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) will reject one other spherical of spot market Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETFs) purposes.

In a brand new interview on Bloomberg Tv, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe says that the duality of recent crypto corporations like Coinbase – which doubles as each a crypto alternate and custodian – will trigger the regulatory company to reject bids for BTC ETFs.

“We’re all excited in regards to the ETF. It’s positively getting nearer. We’re positively seeing indicators by way of the conversations that the candidates are having with the SEC. BitGo’s working with a bunch of those guys as effectively so I’m optimistic.

However I feel it’s fairly seemingly we now have one other spherical of ETF rejections earlier than we get the optimistic information, and it actually comes again right down to market construction. Gary Gensler’s made no secret at this level it’s important to separate exchanges from custody. The CFTC (Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee) market construction is already this manner – it’s important to separate exchanges from custody [in] the fairness’s markets.”

Belshe goes on to notice that the SEC will seemingly request that these companies be separated earlier than approving the purposes.

“Quite a lot of these purposes are with Coinbase custody. Coinbase, whereas I’m not making an attempt to say that they’re an FTX by any means, they’re taking over additionally type of that very same playbook. Along with being an alternate and a custodian, they lately acquired approval from an FCM (futures fee service provider), after all, they acquired a broker-dealer.

What this implies [is] there are loads of dangers in that entity that aren’t totally understood, and I feel that the SEC might fairly seemingly come again and say ‘Nope, you bought to separate out these items totally earlier than we’re going to maneuver ahead.’”

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