{"id":60873,"date":"2022-05-02T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60873"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:52:27","slug":"samsung-asset-management-to-launch-asias-first-blockchain-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/samsung-asset-management-to-launch-asias-first-blockchain-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Asset Management to launch Asia\u2019s first blockchain ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Asset Management plans in the first half of 2022 to secure a listing for<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/chto-takoe-bitkoin-etf\/\"> ETF<\/a> focused on blockchain companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). The Korea Economic Daily reports.<\/p>\n<p>The catalyst for this decision may have been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kedglobal.com\/mergers-acquisitions\/newsView\/ked202204010025\">purchase<\/a> of a 20% stake in American ETF provider Amplify Holding for $30 million. Amplify Holding launched the Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (BLOC).<\/p>\n<p>The prospectus for the ETF <a href=\"https:\/\/amplifyetfs.com\/blok\/\">suggests<\/a> investments of at least 80% of <span data-descr=\"volume of assets under management\" class=\"old_tooltip\">AUM<\/span> in shares of blockchain companies such as Nvidia, Coinbase Global, CME, Galaxy Digital Holdings. It also includes Canadian-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs from Purpose and 3IQ Coinshares.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Asset product on HKEX is expected to replicate the BLOC structure.<\/p>\n<p>A listing of the instrument in South Korea is not expected due to regulatory constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this January, Torus Kling Blockchain and the International Stock Exchange of India <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/v-indii-zapustyat-pervyj-bitkoin-etf\/\">signed<\/a> a memorandum of understanding to launch a Bitcoin and Ethereum futures ETF.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog\u2019s news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Asset Management plans in the first half of 2022 to secure a listing for an ETF focused on blockchain companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). The Korea Economic Daily reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[832,1585,1211],"class_list":["post-60873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-hong-kong","tag-samsung","tag-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60875,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60873\/revisions\/60875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}