Jul 9, 2024
Jamie Hannah, Head of Investments & Capital Markets at VanEck Australia, weighs in on the launch of spot bitcoin ETF in Australia and whether the crypto regulatory framework in the country is ready for ETF products of other digital assets including ETH and SOL.
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Video transcriptAt the moment, I mean, it's really just Bitcoin and e if anything in Australia, which would be available, we only have Bitcoin. Um Certainly people are looking at Solana and a few others. Um So yeah, there's lots of questions around that. Um But at this stage, um the regulatory environment really isn't there to open it up to a, to a host of others. Verne itself runs AAA SERIES of um you know, non Bitcoin so on and some of the other um alt coins out of Europe um as an exchange traded note which people can access. So Ven E as a whole has options available. But in Australia, you know, we're, we're bound by our local regulations and so we have to operate within that framework.
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