A pair of finance firms — First Advisors and the Anthony Scaramucci-led SkyBridge Capital — have joined the growing chorus of companies trying to win approval for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the United States.
The prospectus for the First Trust SkyBridge Bitcoin ETF Trust was published on Friday. As noted in the document, “[t]he investment objective of the Trust is for the Common Shares to reflect the performance of bitcoin less the Trust’s liabilities and expenses.” First Advisors serve as the advisor to the trust, with SkyBridge as sub-advisor, per the filing.
The First Advisors/SkyBridge effort represents the fifth initiative of its kind to be filed in recent days. The two companies join NYDIG, Valkyrie, WisdomTree, and VanEck, though to date VanEck is the only application to be officially acknowledged by the SEC.
