News listFirst out the gate! VanEck launches America's first "BNB Spot ETF"
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First out the gate! VanEck launches America's first "BNB Spot ETF"

ORIGINAL搶頭香!VanEck 推出全美首檔「BNB 現貨 ETF」
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The U.S. crypto ETF market has reached another milestone. Asset management giant VanEck officially launched the "VanEck BNB ETF (ticker: VBNB)" on Thursday, becoming the first ETF in the United States to offer spot BNB exposure, marking Binance's ecosystem officially entering mainstream U.S. capital markets. This ETF will directly hold physical BNB, allowing investors to participate in BNB price movements through traditional brokerage accounts without needing to open their own crypto wallets or manage on-chain assets. VanEck was the first to file a spot BNB ETF application back in May 2025, and submitted the latest amended documents earlier this month. Another asset management firm, Grayscale, is currently also applying for its own spot BNB ETF in parallel. According to the fund's prospectus, VBNB adopts a "physically-backed" structure, with the actual BNB held in cold wallet custody by U.S.-regulated crypto custodian Anchorage Digital Bank; the fund management fee is set at 0.39%. Notably, amid lingering uncertainty in the U.S. regulatory environment, VanEck proactively removed the token staking feature from its proposal back in November last year; Grayscale's application documents adopted the same conservative strategy. However, both parties retained flexible clauses in their prospectuses, leaving open the possibility of incorporating staking yield mechanisms should regulations loosen in the future. As the native token of the BNB Chain ecosystem originally incubated by the world's largest crypto exchange Binance, BNB currently ranks as the 4th largest cryptocurrency globally, with a market cap of $88.3 billion. VanEck Senior Investment Analyst Patrick Bush stated that, compared with other major Layer 1 blockchain tokens, BNB has demonstrated relatively strong resilience against declines in this market cycle. He pointed out: BNB is one of the most actively used blockchains in the world today, processing over 14 million transactions per day, with more than 2.5 million daily active users. Patrick Bush also emphasized that the stablecoin supply within the BNB Chain ecosystem has now exceeded $16 billion, and the scale of on-chain real-world assets (RWA) has reached approximately $3.6 billion, reflecting that its on-chain activity still possesses considerable scale. Altcoin ETF War Escalates Across the Board VBNB is also VanEck's latest product as it continues expanding its crypto ETF portfolio in recent years. VanEck has already launched Bitcoin ETF (HODL), Ethereum ETF (ETHV), Solana ETF (VSOL), and Avalanche ETF (VAVX). Looking at the broader U.S. market, in addition to Bitcoin and Ethereum, a wave of altcoin ETF launches is sweeping in, with products for Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), Avalanche (AVAX), Dogecoin (DOGE), and others already emerging in the market. VanEck Head of Digital Asset Products Kyle DaCruz stated: Before today, BNB had been one of the few major crypto assets without a spot ETP launched in the United States. We are excited to break this status quo through the launch of VBNB, providing U.S. investors with a channel to directly participate in this digital network of significant economic value, within traditional exchanges.
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