European digital asset supervisor CoinShares continues to actively broaden its physically-backed cryptocurrency exchange-traded product providing w
European digital asset supervisor CoinShares continues to actively broaden its physically-backed cryptocurrency exchange-traded product providing with a brand new Litecoin (LTC) ETP.
In keeping with an April 6 announcement, CoinShares has launched its CoinShares Bodily Litecoin.
Listed below the ticker image LITE, every unit of the Litecoin ETP is backed with 0.2 LTC ($45) at launch, offering buyers with passive publicity to the Litecoin community’s native asset. The brand new funding product might be initially listed on Switzerland’s regulated crypto trade Swiss SIX trade with a base price of 1.50%, CoinShares mentioned. LITE is now listed on Bloomberg, with a gap worth of $44.5.
Litecoin is a significant altcoin and a fork of the Bitcoin codebase that was initially positioned as a “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” Created by former Google and Coinbase engineer Charlie Lee in 2011, Litecoin is almost an identical in technical particulars to Bitcoin, that includes some core variations like smaller block instances. Litecoin targets a 2.5 minute block time versus Bitcoin’s 10 minutes. Litecoin is now one of many world’s largest cryptocurrencies, currentl ranked the ninth largest coin by market capitalization at $15 billion.
The CoinShares Bodily Litecoin is the third crypto ETP product launched in 2021 on CoinShares’ institutional-grade ETP platform, CoinShares Bodily. After debuting physically-backed Bitcoin (BTC) ETP on the platform in January, CoinShares rolled out the same product for Ether (ETH) in February.
In keeping with the announcement, CoinShares now has over $four billion in belongings below administration, with Bitcoin accounting for over 60%. “LITE is the subsequent step on a path to bringing a extra complete and diversified providing of ETPs to market,” CoinShares chief income officer Frank Spiteri mentioned.
The crypto ETP business has seen some fast improvement in Europe. In March, Deutsche Borse’s digital buying and selling platform Xetra introduced the launch of its first Ether-based ETPs by European ETP issuers like ETC Group and 21Shares. In February, 21Shares launched the world’s first Polkadot ETP on the Swiss SIX trade.