Altcoin ETFs: Live vs Still Loading (2026)
The first wave already landed.
$SOL — Bitwise's BSOL kicked off the entire altcoin ETF era in October. Live and trading.
$XRP — REX-Osprey's XRPR was one of the biggest ETF launches of the year. $1.37B AUM and climbing.
$DOGE — First meme coin ETF in history. Live on NYSE.
$LTC — Canary Capital got this listed alongside the SOL wave. Live.
$HBAR — Quietly launched the same week as LTC. Live.
$LINK — Grayscale's GLNK launched first, Bitwise's CLNK followed weeks later. Two live LINK ETFs now competing for flow.
$AVAX — VanEck and Bitwise both launched spot AVAX products. Live with staking yield built in.
$DOT — 21Shares got the first US spot Polkadot ETF live with $11M seed capital.
$HYPE — Bitwise's BHYP went live May 15. First Hyperliquid ETF anywhere, staking included.
What's still in the queue.
$ADA — The cleanest story left. CME futures live since Feb 9, six-month clock hits Aug 9, SEC deadline Oct 23. Grayscale, VanEck, Bitwise, and Canary Capital all want in. T. Rowe Price already added ADA to its new active crypto ETF before the spot product even exists.
$AAVE, $SUI, $TAO, $NEAR, $ZEC, $STRK, $UNI, $ENA, $TRX, $CC — Bitwise filed all 11 in one shot on Dec 30, targeting a March 16 effective date as Strategy ETFs. Hybrid structure, 60% direct token exposure.
Status on each individual launch is still filtering through, but this is the biggest single batch ever filed.
$ONDO — 21Shares filed in July, amended in February. Still no approval despite Ondo Global Markets scaling past $700M TVL.
$CRO — Truth Social's Yorkville filed a staking-yield Cronos ETF, built on Crypto .com custody.
$SEI, $ICP, $RENDER, $FET, $INJ — Still sitting in the SEC queue, no confirmed dates.
The pattern is obvious now. File first, get the structure approved, and the next name just slots into the same framework.
Which one are you positioned for before the SEC catches up?
