The Monochrome Bitcoin ETF will begin trading by Tuesday on the Cboe Australia exchange.
The management fee for the ETF, which is denoted as IBTC, will be 0.98%. The fund is made available by the issuer, Monochrome Asset Management, to enable investors to access Bitcoin within a regulated environment.
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) controls this system, which guarantees investor protection and adherence to financial laws.
According to the company, investors can request withdrawals and have legal rights to their Bitcoin (BTC) in the fund. This is Australia’s first and only ETF that directly owns Bitcoin. Prior to the ASX, which also hopes to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs by the end of the year, Cboe will be the first exchange in Australia to offer a Bitcoin ETF.
The spot ETF is designed to replicate the prices on the Bitcoin market, be resistant to manipulation, and be approved by other market players. As the custodian of Bitcoin, Monochrome works with Gemini, an online cryptocurrency exchange.
Portfolio money is invested in a particular cryptocurrency by a spot crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks its price. These funds often track a certain cryptocurrency but are traded on open exchanges.
Crypto ETFs are available on ordinary stock markets like other funds, and investors can hold them in their typical brokerage accounts. The launch of this spot ETF is timely for the cryptocurrency market, particularly in light of current political and geopolitical developments.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved listing multiple spot Bitcoin ETFs on all U.S. registered national exchanges in early 2024. Hong Kong became the first city in Asia to embrace cryptocurrency as a primary investment when it conditionally approved its first spot, Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, in mid-April.
Additionally, the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21) was enacted by the US House of Representatives, letting the cryptocurrency business know that the US is open to the market.