The Chicago Board Options Exchange filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 11 to enable staking for the Fidelity Ethereum ETF.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has filed a 19b-4 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enable staking for the Fidelity Investment spot Ethereum Fund.
The filing, published Saturday, March 11, shows that Cboe BZX Exchange proposed to "amend the Fidelity Ethereum Fund to permit staking of ether held by the Trust." The proposal is now pending approval from the SEC.
The 19b-4 form also showed that Cboe hopes the initiative will enable the fund to effectively stake its Ethereum holdings so that investors can make more returns. The filing noted that the proposed rule change would allow Fidelity’s FETH fund to "’s or a portion of the Trust’s ether through one or more trusted staking providers" once approved. It also acknowledged that any rewards generated by staking would be "treated as income."
The exchange noted that the Fidelity Ethereum Fund would be among the first ETFs in the U.S. to incorporate staking once approved by the regulators. The firm believes that it could offer investors a way to earn staking rewards without managing the technical aspects themselves.
"The Trust will be permitted to use a portion of the Trust's assets to pay any administrative expenses incurred in connection with the maintenance of the common trust institution or the Trust's interest in the common trust institution,liabilities of the Trust other than the Trust's obligations to the ETF to redeem ETF shares in accordance with the provisions of the ETF's prospectus." the filing read in part.
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