Canary Capital Files for $PENGU and Pudgy Penguins NFTs ETF

US funding agency Canary Capital has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a brand new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that might 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 belongings from the Ethereum-based Pudgy Penguins NFT collection, marking the primary recognized try to incorporate NFTs in a regulated ETF in the USA.

The SEC submitting was submitted on Thursday, however it doesn’t present a timeline for assessment 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 belongings.

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

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

Why is that this vital?

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

NFTs are inherently completely different from cryptocurrencies on account of their distinctive nature and variable pricing. Together with them in a regulated funding fund presents novel challenges, together with methods to worth, retailer, and audit such belongings. The SEC has but to concern 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.