{"id":652014,"date":"2026-09-02T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/crypto-industry-urges-sec-to-avoid-blanket-novel-etf-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:52:49","slug":"crypto-industry-urges-sec-to-avoid-blanket-novel-etf-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/crypto-industry-urges-sec-to-avoid-blanket-novel-etf-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto industry urges SEC to avoid blanket novel ETF restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crypto<\/p>\n

Grayscale, a16z, and the CCI asked the SEC to preserve existing classification rules and avoid treating novel exchange-traded products as a single category, while proposing different routes to clearer and faster reviews.<\/p>\n

Crypto industry participants urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to avoid a blanket restriction on \u201cnovel\u201d exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and instead evaluate products based on their individual risk parameters.<\/p>\n

Venture capital firm a16z<\/a> asked the SEC to evaluate novel products according to their underlying characteristics, coordinate fund-registration and exchange-listing reviews and adopt more predictable timelines. Digital asset investment manager Grayscale<\/a> and the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI<\/a>) supported optional confidential pre-filing processes.<\/p>\n

All three opposed changing existing investment-company classifications in ways that could automatically sweep products holding non-securities into the Investment Company Act framework.<\/p>\n

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Grayscale, a16z, and the CCI asked the SEC to preserve existing classification rules and avoid treating novel exchange-traded products as a single category, while proposing different routes to clearer and faster reviews. Crypto industry participants urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to avoid a blanket restriction on \u201cnovel\u201d exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-652014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}