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Morgan Stanley Files Staking ETFs for ETH and SOL at 0.14% Fee
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In Morgan Stanley ETF news, the asset manager filed amended S-1 registration statements with the SEC on June 18, 2026, for spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, both priced at a 0.14% annual sponsor fee, undercutting every existing US competitor in both categories.
Key facts
- In Morgan Stanley ETF news, the asset manager filed amended S-1 registration statements with the SEC on June 18, 2026, for spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, both priced at a 0.14% annual sponsor fee
- This news dropped as Bitcoin surged +1.5% on the day following news that Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 520 Bitcoin for $35M, prompting a positive market reaction
- At 14 basis points (one basis point equals 0.01 percentage point), Morgan Stanley undercuts every existing US spot ETH and SOL product
- Morgan Stanley’s filings direct 95% of those staking rewards back to fund shareholders, with the remaining 5% allocated to named infrastructure providers: Figment Inc, Galaxy Blockchain
Summary
What Morgan Stanley ETF Filed and How the Fee Math Works. The central tension this filing forces into the open is that fee pressure that reshaped the Bitcoin ETF market is now arriving simultaneously in ETH and SOL, and incumbent issuers like Grayscale and Franklin Templeton either cut costs or get left behind on price. This news dropped as Bitcoin surged +1.5% on the day following news that Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 520 Bitcoin for $35M, prompting a positive market reaction. Franklin Templeton has filed for two new bitcoin-linked ETFs: the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF and the Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF.