The US financial institution, Morgan Stanley, is trying to provide publicity to bitcoin (BTC) via an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
On March 17, 2026, the agency filed with the US Securities and Change Fee (SEC) the second modification to its S-1 type for the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Beliefa spot bitcoin ETF that, if authorised by the regulator, would listing on the NYSE Arca below the image MSBT.
The target of the ETF is to copy the efficiency of bitcoin, taking as a reference the “CoinDesk Bitcoin Benchmark 4PM NY Settlement Fee”, an index calculated from the move of operations executed in the primary spot bitcoin change homes.
Custody of the bitcoin might be shared between Coinbase Custody Belief Firm y The Financial institution of New York Mellon (BNY)each working below chilly storage requirements with a number of layers of safety. The belongings might be segregated from the custodians’ personal belongings.
Contributors licensed to create and redeem share baskets – blocks of 10,000 shares – embody: Virtu Americas, Jane Avenue Capital y Macquarie Capital.
On the time of the S-1 submitting, the reference worth of bitcoin was roughly $71,186. For the preliminary launch, Morgan Stanley plans to buy seed baskets for a complete of 1 million {dollars}equal to 50,000 shares.
With this transfer, Morgan Stanley reinforces its dedication to digital belongings inside the provide of conventional funding merchandise for the US market.
Moreover, joins the competitors with giants that already handle spot bitcoin ETFs como BlackRock, Constancy, Grayscale, Bitwise, ARK21 Shares, ProShares, VanEck y Franklin Templeton, entre otros.
As CriptoNoticias has reported, BlackRock, with its iShares Bitcoin Belief ETF (IBIT), dominates the bitcoin funding fund raceeach by way of buying and selling quantity (1,750 million {dollars} within the final day) and belongings below administration (56,000 million {dollars}).
