{"id":308924,"date":"2021-07-27T04:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T01:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/goldman-sachs-new-defi-etf-is-anything-but\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T04:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T01:09:39","slug":"goldman-sachs-new-defi-etf-is-anything-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/goldman-sachs-new-defi-etf-is-anything-but\/","title":{"rendered":"# Goldman Sach’s new ‘DeFi’ ETF is anything but"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# Goldman Sach’s new ‘DeFi’ ETF is anything but <\/strong>”
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The proposed fund<\/a>, dubbed the Goldman Sachs Innovate DeFi and Blockchain Equity ETF, strives to track the Decentralized Finance and Blockchain Index from German financial indices provider, Solactive.<\/p>\n

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets into securities, stocks, and depository receipts featured in the index.<\/p>\n

The filing asserts the index seeks to offer exposure to firms aligned with two key narratives: \u201cthe implementation of blockchain technology<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cthe digitalization of finance.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of July 23, the top stocks included in Solactive\u2019s decentralized finance index<\/a> included Nokia, Facebook<\/a>, Google, Accenture, and Fujitsu \u2014 each of which represented between roughly six and seven percent of the index.<\/p>\n

The likes of PayPal, Microsoft, Visa, and Overstock comprise smaller shares of the index, with Solactive also tracking China\u2019s Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu among the 20 assets in its DeFi index.<\/p>\n

Fans of crypto-native DeFi index products are likely to be disapp<\/a>ointed by the methodology underpinning Solactive\u2019s index, which requires a company to be listed on a regulated stock exchange, boast a market cap of more than $500 million, and have a daily average volume of at least $500 million for the past six months.<\/p>\n

Solactive\u2019s index is recalculated and rebalanced quarterly on the third Friday of each February, May, August, and November.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/em><\/strong>Finding the sweet spot: Traditional financial institutions ready for DeFi<\/em><\/p>\n

Goldman\u2019s filing comes as institutions are increasingly taking note of the DeFi sector, with leading crypto asset manager, Grayscale, announcing plans to launch a decentralized finance fund last week.<\/p>\n

Grayscale\u2019s DeFi fund would offer institutions exposure to \u201cblue-chip\u201d tokens of the DeFi sector, including the governance tokens of leading protocols such as Uniswap and Aave.<\/p>\n

Top DeFi money market, Aave, is also seeking to target institutional capital, launching a permissioned pool for institutions earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Major investment bank, Goldman Sachs, has submitted an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering exposure to public companies associated with the decentralized finance sector.<\/p>\n