Nasdaq has filed for approval of Grayscale's Spot Avalanche ETF.
The filing is a key step in the proposal process, which will be published in the Federal Register upon SEC acknowledgement.
Grayscale aims to convert its existing Avalanche Trust into a spot ETF, with the trust holding AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche blockchain network.
This filing follows a similar move by VanEck to launch the first spot Avalanche ETF, intensifying the competition between the two firms.