Hashdex to launch Solana ETF in Brazil

Hashdex, a recognized participant within the crypto asset administration house, will launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that gives traders with publicity to Solana (SOL), as proven within the database of Brazil’s Securities and Alternate Fee (CVM), which has accredited the product.

The ETF, referred to as the “Hashdex Nasdaq Solana Index Fund,” remains to be in its pre-operational part, the CVM database exhibits. Which means the fund is within the technique of finalizing its setup earlier than being absolutely operational and open to traders.

The ETF will likely be managed by Hashdex in collaboration with BTG Pactual, a significant native funding financial institution.

Hashdex, with property over $962 million, has been energetic within the crypto ETF market since its founding in 2018. In 2021, Hashdex launched the world’s first crypto index ETF, the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI). The agency can also be behind Brazil’s first ETF primarily based on a crypto index.

Along with merchandise tied to the Nasdaq Crypto Index, Hashdex has expanded its choices to incorporate crypto property like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The agency lately filed for a pioneering twin Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF with the US Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC).

The approval follows the acceptance of the nation’s first Solana ETF by QR Asset on August 8. Whereas Brazil exhibits rising curiosity in diversified crypto investments, the US is extra hesitant regardless of latest progress with spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.

In June, VanEck and 21Shares filed for spot Solana ETFs within the US, aiming to checklist on the Cboe BZX Alternate regardless of Solana’s classification as a safety by the SEC.

Nonetheless, sources conversant in the state of affairs lately instructed The Block that the SEC had rejected Cboe’s 19b-4 filings for Solana ETFs of VanEck and 21Shares. That was possible the rationale behind the elimination of those filings from the Cboe.

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