Litecoin ETF Leads XRP and Other Altcoins in Approval Odds

Bloomberg ETF analysts James Seyffart and Eric Balchunas have launched their newest approval odds for spot altcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in 2025, with Litecoin rising because the strongest contender.

Seyffart believes that the Litecoin ETF has the very best chance of approval for the reason that U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) doesn’t classify it as a safety.

Why Litecoin Is Main the Pack

“Balchunas and I took a have a look at the filings for spot crypto ETFs. We’re placing out comparatively excessive odds of approval throughout the board,” Seyffart said in a February 10 X post. In accordance with the evaluation, the Litecoin ETF filings submitted by Canary Capital and Grayscale maintain a 90% probability of approval.

This projection follows the SEC’s latest acknowledgment of 19b-4 types for Litecoin ETFs. Balchunas beforehand famous that the altcoin’s product meets all regulatory necessities, making it unlikely that the monetary watchdog will reject the filings.

The analysts additionally attribute Litecoin’s robust place to its origins as a Bitcoin fork, sharing the identical proof-of-work consensus mechanism and having no pre-sale historical past. Behind it, Dogecoin ETF filings had been assigned a 75% approval chance, whereas Solana and XRP ETFs had been estimated to have a 70% and 65% probability, respectively.

Balchunas highlighted on Monday that the general outlook for altcoin ETFs has improved considerably since Trump’s election victory final November. Earlier than then, approval odds for all property besides Litecoin had been beneath 5%. He additional expects the present probabilities to rise as the method unfolds.

He additionally pointed out that their present evaluation focuses on 1933 Act filings, like BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF, however different buildings, corresponding to 40 Act futures-based ETFs or Cayman-subsidiary funds, may emerge.

XRP and Solana ETF Approvals

Nonetheless, uncertainties stay over Solana and XRP’s safety classifications, which may affect their approval processes. Seyffart noted that an XRP ETF is unlikely to be authorized till the SEC’s ongoing lawsuit in opposition to Ripple is resolved.

Whereas a court docket dominated in August 2023 that XRP isn’t a safety when traded on secondary markets, the SEC has since appealed the choice, arguing that Ripple violated securities legal guidelines when promoting the token to retail buyers.

Equally, Solana’s classification as a safety stays unclear, stopping the monetary watchdog from evaluating it beneath a “commodities ETF wrapper.”

Nonetheless, these choices had been made beneath the management of former SEC Chair Gary Gensler. The skilled identified that Commissioner Hester Peirce’s Crypto Job Pressure may reassess the classification of the 2 tokens as securities by the top of 2025.

As for the regulator’s assessment course of, he talked about that filings for each XRP and Dogecoin ETFs are anticipated to be acknowledged this week.