“Spot commodities and currency markets for which it has previously approved spot ETPs are generally unregulated and that the Commission relied on underlying futures market as the regulated market of significant size that formed the basis for approving the series of Currency and Commodity-Based Trust Shares, including gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, and other commodities and currencies,” VanEck noted in its filing.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/01/vaneck-files-new-application-for-spot-bitcoin-etf/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines