SEC Urges Solana ETF Issuers to Re-File S-1s by July-End to Fast-Track Approvals

By José Oramas July 08, 2025 In ETF, SEC, Solana

The SEC wants Solana ETF issuers to revise and resubmit S-1 filings by July’s end, aiming for approvals before the October 10 deadline to avoid surprise launches.
This comes after the REX-Osprey SOL and Staking ETF quietly went live under a 1940 Act loophole, prompting regulators to speed up reviews to keep the market level.
Solana’s rising appeal has big firms eyeing it for corporate treasuries, with Cantor Fitzgerald predicting SOL could rival or surpass Ethereum in institutional adoption.

The SEC is pressing firms behind proposed Solana ETFs to tweak and resubmit their S-1 filings before July wraps up, according to a report from CoinDesk.

Officially, the agency has until October to make a call, but signs point to an accelerated timeline to avoid handing any one product an unexpected head start.

The push comes days after the REX-Osprey SOL and Staking ETF (SSK) cleared its final hurdle and went live, making it the first Solana staking fund to hit the US market, as Crypto News Australia reported. Because SSK was filed under the Investment Company Act of 1940, it got a procedural green light unless the SEC actively stopped it, a loophole that left the door open for a surprise launch.

SEC Under Pressure

Hence, with SSK already live, the Commission may feel it has little choice but to move faster to level the field before October’s official cutoff.

“I think that the SEC has some pressure to approve these quicker than waiting all the way to October, especially with that Rex Shares product that got approved last week,” one person familiar with the matter told CoinDesk.

Interestingly, the SEC recently hit the brakes on its approval of Grayscales’ basket crypto exchange-traded fund. It seems that one of the (potential) reasons for backtracking is the fact that two cryptocurrencies in the ETF (XRP and ADA) do not have their own ETFs. It seems the SEC might be going a little too fast.

Solana Increasingly Popular with Institutions

Solana is becoming more and more a darling for institutions, especially as the network grows in terms of developer count and activity.

Back in June, investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald claimed that more companies could start embracing SOL as a corporate treasury, mostly because businesses think that the asset could overtake Ethereum in the long-run, the firm said.