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Fidelity and Canary Capital roll out spot solana ETFs, joining Bitwise, Grayscale, and VanEck

The price of solana is trading around $140, more than 50% away from its all-time high set in January.

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The solana spot ETF colosseum continues to grow as competition heats up. Fidelity’s FSOL and Canary Capital’s SOLC began trading on Tuesday, with both funds also staking their token holdings to secure the solana blockchain. 

Fidelity is now “the biggest asset manager in this category with BlackRock sitting out,” per Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas.

The news coincides with a price increase for solana, with the token rising over 4% in the last 24 hours. That said, the cryptocurrency remains down over 26% in the last 30 days to trade around $140, a far cry from its all-time high of $293 set in January.

The nascent solana spot ETFs follow financial heavyweight VanEck debuting its solana ETF on Monday and Bitwise and Grayscale’s funds, which launched in late October. Notably, Bitwise and Grayscale’s funds have only recorded daily inflows since inception. 

“We are super excited to see the proliferation of ETFs on solana. This gives traditional markets investors additional avenues to access SOL exposure and ultimately serves to increasingly legitimize the solana ecosystem,” Parker White, the COO and CIO of solana treasury firm DeFi Development Corp., said.

White told Sherwood News that Fidelity’s newly launched ETF is a “strong vote of confidence” in solana. “There are a number of fixed costs that go into launching an ETF, so Fidelity is clearly bullish on the solana ecosystem to be willing to make that investment.”

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XRP ETFs have now crossed $1 billion in assets since the funds launched, according to SoSoValue, which shows total assets of $1.18 billion.

In September, the SEC approved generic listing standards, which paved the way for speedier listings and opened the floodgates for these products, and shortly after, Rex-Osprey launched the first spot XRP ETF available in the US.

Canary followed suit in November, launching an ETF trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker XRPC, which saw a record $58.5 million in trading volume on its first day. It’s the largest XRP ETF in the US, with $342 million in assets.

Grayscale, Bitwise, and Franklin Templeton also launched their own XRP ETFs in November. On December 11, 21Shares joined the XRP fund party.

It’s a noteworthy green shoot in the crypto space, as bitcoin and its ETFs have struggled, and XRP itself is down nearly 15% over the past month.

Jake Hanley, managing director and senior portfolio specialist at Teucrium Investment Advisors — which launched the first-ever XRP-based ETF in April, the 2x Long Daily XRP ETF — told Sherwood News that he is not surprised to see this level of interest in the XRP ETFs.

“We have long held that XRP and the Ripple ecosystem present a unique investment case among crypto assets. Crossing the $1 billion mark is yet another signal of the significant vote of confidence investors have in this increasingly important asset and ecosystem,” Hanley said.

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New bitcoin AfterDark ETF will be bitcoin at night, Treasurys by day

Tidal Trust II submitted form N-1A with the SEC to register a bitcoin ETF designed to systemically capture the cryptocurrency’s overnight return profile, a time window that delivered a significant portion of bitcoin’s upside last year.

The Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries AfterDark ETF provides long bitcoin exposure during US overnight hours, from the closing bell until the following morning’s market open, when the fund intends to unwind its positions, according to a document filed with the SEC on Tuesday. 

To gain that exposure, the ETF may use a number of methods, including bitcoin futures contracts, US-listed ETFs, or exchange-traded options on such bitcoin underlying funds. When the market is open and daytime trading is active, the fund’s portfolio will consist of US Treasury securities and other cash equivalents. 

In 2024, most of bitcoin’s gains occurred after-hours, senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported:

The AfterDark ETF filing comes as bitcoin crossed $94,000 on Tuesday, rising 4.5% in the last 24 hours. Even though spot bitcoin ETFs saw nearly $60.5 million in outflows on Monday, the investment vehicles have a cumulative net inflow of $57.6 billion, per SoSoValue.

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