Grayscale’s BCH, LTC, ETC Trusts Now One Step Closer to Becoming ETFs
On Friday, Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager in terms of assets under management (AUM), revealed that three trusts have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in order to become SEC reporting companies. The three trusts include individual crypto asset products such as the bitcoin cash trust, the litecoin trust, and the ethereum classic trust, which will join three other Grayscale trusts that are already SEC reporting companies. Grayscale’s BCH, LTC, ETC Trusts to Join Three Other Products as SEC Reporting Companies....
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