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BlackRock has submitted an 8-A registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a yield-bearing bitcoin exchange-traded fund, a procedural filing that typically precedes a security going live on an exchange.
Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas interpreted the move as a near-final signal, saying he expects the product to begin trading next week.
What an 8-A Filing Actually Means An 8-A is the form an issuer files to register a class of securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 — it is a required step before shares can trade on a national exchange, and it is not filed casually.
Seeing one appear does not lock in a specific launch date, but it narrows the window considerably.
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