An XRP-focused exchange-traded fund is extra more likely to obtain approval than different just lately proposed spot funds monitoring different main altcoins, market analysis agency Kaiko stated in a report launched Monday.Â
XRP’s front-runner place comes due to the underlying token’s excessive liquidity, stated Kaiko. Spot quantity for XRP on American exchanges just lately hit its highest stage since earlier than a long-running lawsuit in 2020 led to delistings, Kaiko famous in its report. XRP is the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
Kaiko added that the SEC’s prior approval of a fund giving buyers publicity to the coin additionally labored in XRP’s favor. U.S. asset supervisor Teucrium Funding Advisors launched a 2x leveraged XRP ETF earlier this month.
“It is arduous to argue towards permitting a spot product when there’s already an energetic ETF like this, which is very levered and extra dangerous than a vanilla spot ETF,” Kaiko’s Adam Morgan McCarthy advised Decrypt.Â
Bitwise, Grayscale, 21Shares, CoinShares, and Canary Capital have all utilized to listing spot XRP funds. The functions and others for ETFs based mostly on Solana, Litecoin, Cardano, and Dogecoin, amongst different tokens, replicate issuers’ rising efforts to handle demand for crypto funding merchandise. Kaiko reported {that a} Solana-based fund was the subsequent more than likely after an XRP ETF to obtain a regulatory greenlight.Â
XRP is a digital coin created by the founders of fintech firm Ripple. The SEC sued Ripple on the finish of 2020, alleging that its workforce offered unregistered securities within the type of XRP.Â
The coin’s worth nosedived—particularly throughout the brutal bear market. However the coin has since made a comeback after Ripple partially received its lawsuit with the SEC. A decide in 2023 dominated that programmatic gross sales of XRP on cryptocurrency exchanges to retail buyers didn’t qualify as securities.
Ripple—and the crypto trade as an entire—interpreted the choice as a win, regardless of the decide additionally ruling that $728 million price of tokens for institutional gross sales constituted unregistered securities gross sales.
The fintech firm final month agreed to pay a $50 million effective to finish the SEC investigation.

XRP was just lately buying and selling at $2.12, up greater than 15% over the previous week, though it’s properly off its all-time excessive of file of $3.40 per coin from 2018, in keeping with crypto knowledge supplier CoinGecko. XRP almost matched that all-time peak again in January.
The SEC final yr authorized Bitcoin ETFs, which have been wildly profitable, producing greater than $39 billion in internet inflows, in keeping with U.Ok. asset supervisor Farside Buyers. A number of months later, the regulator authorized Ethereum funds, which have not been met with the identical quantity of investor enthusiasm.
Edited by James Rubin
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