Ultimate Guide: Morgan Stanley Adds Ethereum Staking Etf Filing To Growing Crypto...

The investment banking giant is seeking to capture additional yield from the proposed ETF’s Ether holdings via staking, as institutional investors launch more regulated crypto funds.

Morgan Stanley has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF), adding to a growing list of crypto products from the investment banking giant.

The US investment bank filed an S-1 form to establish the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust, an ETF that seeks to buy, hold and track the price of spot Ether (ETH), according to a Tuesday filing with the SEC.

The filing states that the fund will not seek to “speculatively sell” Ether to realize additional returns, but it plans to engage third-party staking services providers to stake an undisclosed amount of their holdings for additional passive yield.

The filing is Morgan Stanley’s third cryptocurrency ETF filing, after the bank made two similar filings on Tuesday, one for a Bitcoin (BTC) ETF and another for a Solana (SOL) ETF.

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Morgan Stanley Investment Management was listed as the sponsor of the ETF, while CSC Delaware Trust Company appears as the Delaware trustee. The fund’s custodians and exchange were not yet described in the S-1 filing.

The filing signals deeper crypto ambitions from Morgan Stanley, which reportedly enabled its financial advisers to recommend crypto funds starting in October 2024, to clients with individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and 401(k)s.

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Subject to the SEC’s approval, the new fund could add another meaningful source of demand for Ether, considering that spot Ether ETFs have been resilient despite the record October market crash.

Source: CoinTelegraph