Wall Street Finally Catches Up: Solana Staking ETF Debuts Wednesday—Your Move, Bitcoin Maxis
Solana staking breaks into the mainstream—whether traditional finance is ready or not.
The first U.S.-listed Solana Staking ETF launches Wednesday, letting investors chase yield without the hassle of managing validators or dodging SEC lawsuits. Finally, institutional money gets a polished on-ramp to crypto’s most contentious passive income play.
Why It Matters
Staking rewards meet Wall Street’s compliance department—with predictable fees attached. The ETF wraps Solana’s notoriously volatile staking APY into a neat, SEC-approved package. Translation: Your grandma can now outperform hedge funds by blindly holding a ticker symbol.
The Fine Print
Expect expense ratios that’d make a DeFi degenerate laugh, plus the usual Wall Street caveats: “Past performance ≠ future results” (especially when your underlying asset drops 80% in a week). But for traders who think SOL’s recent rally has legs? This is the lazy investor’s backdoor to compounding rewards—no hardware headaches required.
Bottom Line
Another crypto innovation gets the vanilla ETF treatment—complete with bankers skimming cream off your staking yield. Welcome to financialization, where even disruptive tech ends up repackaged as a quarterly-fee product. Now watch retail FOMO in anyway.
Major Greenlight For Solana ETFs In the US
This ETF combines spot exposure to solana with the added benefit of staking yield. Investors will hold shares that reflect both the price of SOL and the rewards generated from staking activities on-chain.
Meanwhile, this makes it the first ETF in the US to distribute native staking income to shareholders.
Coming Soon: The First-Ever Staked Crypto ETF in the U.S.!
Introducing the REX-Osprey
SOL + Staking ETF, designed to track the performance of Solana while generating yield through on-chain staking.
SOL exposureStaking rewards
A new era of yield-generating crypto… pic.twitter.com/I8yIEqiI5R
Unlike traditional ETFs requiring lengthy SEC approval under exchange rules, the REX-Osprey product uses a unique regulatory structure.
It is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and operates through a C-corporation, allowing it to launch without a 19b-4 filing.
Also, this structure avoids direct engagement with the SEC on staking-related enforcement issues, which have held up several pending spot ETF applications.
Notably, REX Shares previously received informal confirmation from the SEC that there were no outstanding comments on its filing.
The ETF will be available to US investors and offer 24/5 liquidity, commission-free access (via certain platforms), and transparent reward distribution.
Looks like they believe comments have been resolved…
Crypto ETF summer commences. https://t.co/teeBl3jSTW
Unlike crypto exchange staking programs, investors retain full exposure through a regulated financial instrument.
This marks a major milestone for crypto asset management in the US. It demonstrates that staking-based yield can coexist with regulated ETF frameworks—something previously considered a gray area by regulators.
It also puts pressure on pending spot Solana ETF applicants like VanEck and 21Shares. Their filings, based on standard exchange-traded commodity trust structures, remain under SEC review and do not yet include staking components.
So, the REX-Osprey product may serve as a regulatory workaround model for others.
