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SEC Approves Cboe BZX Listing of Volatility Shares 3x Bitcoin ETF

The SEC has approved Cboe BZX to list a 3x Bitcoin ETF from Volatility Shares, which tracks three times the daily move of a Bitcoin futures benchmark. The fund targets a 3% gain before fees when Bitcoin futures rise 1%, and a 3% loss when they fall 1%. The ETF holds Bitcoin futures, not spot Bitcoin, and cannot trade until its registration statement takes effect.

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The approval matters less for the product itself than for what it signals about the SEC's comfort with leveraged crypto exposure in an ETF wrapper. Because the fund holds futures rather than spot Bitcoin, it sidesteps the custody questions that stalled spot products, and its daily-reset structure means compounding can diverge sharply from headline Bitcoin moves over time. Whether demand for amplified futures exposure builds, and whether this opens the door to comparable filings, is the open question.

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