Global cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP) person seen a important uptick successful 2023, reportedly outpacing the maturation of underlying assets, according to a study by integer plus level Fineqia.
Crypto-based ETPs issued by companies similar 21Shares, Grayscale and CoinShares recorded a 91% summation successful full assets nether absorption (AUM) from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, 2023, Fineqia reported.
The surge of crypto ETPs has outperformed the maturation of underlying integer assets by 30%, arsenic cryptocurrencies had comparatively slower maturation of astir 70% implicit the aforesaid period.
Fineqia’s survey included each presently issued a full of 168 crypto ETPs, based connected the ETP AUM information from sources similar 21Shares, Grayscale Investment, VanEck Associates and others.
“The probe includes each the products issued by 21Shares, Grayscale, CoinShares, ETC Group, VanEck, WisdomTree, and different issuers,” a spokesperson for Fineqia told Cointelegraph.
“The information is updated each archetypal concern time of the month, hence they explicit the information astatine the extremity of the erstwhile month,” Fineqia’s probe expert Matteo Greco stated. He added that the information is collected from authoritative sources and erstwhile not disposable connected the issuers’ websites from information aggregators. “All the information is stored into a spreadsheet and stacked each period starting from August 2022,” the expert noted.
Fineqia has attributed the quality betwixt the crypto ETP AUM surge and the surge of the crypto marketplace to Bitcoin’s (BTC) larger proportionality wrong integer plus ETPs compared with its stock successful the wide market. According to the study, Bitcoin accounts for 75% of the full crypto ETP AUM. On the different hand, Bitcoin’s stock of the crypto marketplace has been astir 50% implicit the past year, according to information from CoinGecko.
At the aforesaid time, Bitcoin has been 1 of the biggest gainers connected the crypto market, surging 104% during a play from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, 2023. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by marketplace cap, surged 50% implicit the aforesaid period, according to information from CoinGecko.

According to Fineqia, the crypto ETP AUM deed $38 cardinal successful October, surging 25% month-over-month and hitting its highest fig since May 2022. The full cryptocurrency marketplace capitalization besides roseate 17% successful October, surging from $1.15 trillion to $1.35 trillion.
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According to Fineqia CEO Bundeep Singh Rangar, the dynamics successful the crypto ETP marketplace and wide crypto markets are a awesome of the excitement astir a perchance coming spot Bitcoin exchange-traded money successful the United States. He said:
“The fume signals are retired for the precise apt and adjacent imminent support of Bitcoin Spot ETFs. The market’s simply responding to this affirmative signaling.”The quality comes as 12 spot Bitcoin ETF applications from firms similar 21Shares and WisdomTree await a determination by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In mid-November, the SEC delayed decisions connected approvals for different 3 spot Bitcoin ETF applications by companies similar Franklin Templeton, Hashdex and Global X.
On Nov. 15, Franklin Templeton and Hashdex — whose deadline was antecedently acceptable for Nov. 17 — saw their deadlines delayed by the SEC to Jan. 1, 2024. Global X, whose deadline was scheduled for Nov. 21, besides faced a hold arsenic expected, with the SEC asking the steadfast to taxable a rebuttal successful the adjacent 35 days oregon by Dec. 22.