US funding agency Canary Capital has filed with the Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) to launch a brand new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that may mix cryptocurrency and NFTs in a single funding product.

The proposed fund Canary PENGU ETF, would come with the $PENGU token—issued on the Solana blockchain—and digital property from the Ethereum-based Pudgy Penguins NFT assortment, marking the primary identified try to incorporate NFTs in a regulated ETF in the USA.

The SEC submitting was submitted on Thursday, but it surely doesn’t present a timeline for evaluation or approval.

What’s an ETF?

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a monetary product that tracks the efficiency of a particular asset or group of property.

ETFs are traded on inventory exchanges and could be purchased and bought like particular person shares. They’re usually used to offer buyers entry to particular sectors, commodities, or indexes with out requiring them to instantly buy or handle the underlying property.

Within the context of cryptocurrency, ETFs can present publicity to digital tokens with out requiring buyers to deal with wallets, exchanges, or custody instantly.

Why is that this important?

If permitted, this could be the primary ETF within the US to incorporate NFTs as a part of its portfolio. Earlier digital asset ETFs—resembling these monitoring Bitcoin or Ethereum—have solely included fungible tokens.

NFTs are inherently completely different from cryptocurrencies as a consequence of their distinctive nature and variable pricing. Together with them in a regulated funding fund presents novel challenges, together with how to worth, retailer, and audit such property. The SEC has but to subject particular steerage on NFT-based ETFs.

Different companies, together with VanEck and Bitwise, have submitted proposals for ETFs tied to cryptocurrencies like Solana, Litecoin, and XRP.