
On 6th February, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest options exchange in the world, submitted multiple 19b-4 applications to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking approval to list and trade spot XRP ETFs issued by Bitwise, 21Shares, Canary, and WisdomTree.
All four applicants rely on Ripple XRP's partial victory in the years-long legal battle with the SEC on whether XRP should be classified as a security under Federal law.