VolatilityShares files for 30 basketball ETFs, one per NBA franchise

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Eric Balchunas @ericbalchunas Quote post

VolatilityShares just filed for 30 ETFs tied to pro basketball teams, and the missing league and team names point to a FutureSports deal with the NBA and CME still being negotiated. Sports team futures are becoming a real ETF asset class.

New filing for Basketball ETFs from VolShares (just in time for Sixers dominance!) notable that the names don’t incl “NBA” or team name which makes me think the filing is placeholders waiting for FutureSports to do official deal w league and CME. Nice catch from Jeff. https://t.co/9qca8NsxbQ https://t.co/wzXTDI09Kw [Quoted @syouth1]: Here come the basketball ETFs: VolatilityShares has filed to register 30 ETFs tied to the 30 'mens professional basketball teams' that seem to correspond to the 30 NBA franchises. Interesting actual team names not referenced, nor is 'NBA'. https://t.co/ugDkxoLEIp
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VolatilityShares has filed to register 30 ETFs tied to what it describes as the 30 mens professional basketball teams, a structure that maps directly onto the NBA's current franchise count. Conspicuously absent from the filings are the league's name and any actual team names, which Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Eric Balchunas read as a signal that the products are placeholder registrations rather than finished instruments.

Balchunas's interpretation is that the filings are waiting on FutureSports to complete an official deal with both the NBA and CME before the funds can be named and launched. A formal commercial and derivatives infrastructure still needs to fall into place before any of the 30 funds can trade.

Jeffrey Ptak, who first spotted the filings, flagged the same detail about the missing branding. The omission is the clearest evidence available that the legal and licensing groundwork is not yet finished.

If the FutureSports arrangement does close, sports-franchise futures would join a growing category of event-driven and alternative-asset ETFs that have found regulatory traction in recent years. Thirty funds at once would be a notable expansion of that category in a single filing batch.

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