SEC Opens 60-Day Comment Window on Novel ETFs, With Crypto and Prediction Markets in Play

By Isaac • June 30, 2026 9:42 pm •

The Securities and Exchange Commission opened a public comment process on June 30, 2026, asking how ETFs built around innovative asset classes or novel investment strategies should be allowed to reach market.

Comments stay open for 60 days after the request is published in the Federal Register.

This is more than an approval of any single fund. It is the regulator building a record before it decides how the next wave of nontraditional ETFs gets cleared.

For crypto readers, that record is the whole game. Whether a spot crypto ETF, a digital-asset basket, or an event-contract product can use the faster ETF path may come down to what this comment file ultimately says.

The SEC