In addition, the company seeks to launch another ETF that combines gold and cryptocurrencies.
SBI has been involved in the bitcoin ecosystem and digital assets for more than 5 years.
SBI Holdings, a Tokyo Financial Services Company, filed a request to launch a combined Bitcoin (BTC) and XRP stock market (ETF) and XRP.
This “cryptoactive ETF”, as it is called in the profit report corresponding to the second quarter of 2025, is structured to follow the performance of Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency of Ripple Labs.
In this way, investors can access two digital assets at the same time through a single ETF.
In case of being approved by the Financial Services Agency of Japan, It would become the first quoted fund in the country’s stock market to include XRPwhich would increase the visibility of the asset and could unlock institutional capital flows.
But that’s not all. Is that the company revealed which also plans to launch a gold and cryptocurrency ETF.
The fund described in the proposal “Gold-Crypto-Assets (Digital Gold)” is made up of a strategic assignment of assets that allocates more than 51% of its portfolio to ETF of Gold, considered a refuge of traditional value, and up to 49% to ETF of digital assets, such as the Franklin Templeton fund of BTC.
The structure seeks to balance stability and risk, with diversified investment flows between assets of different risk profile, maintaining a gold preponderance (more than 51%) and lower exposure to other assets (less than 40%).
It should be noted that SBI Holdings has been involved in Bitcoin for more than five years and other digital assets. In November 2020, the firm launched a loan service in BTC, according to cryptootics.
More recently, in 2024, SBI associated with Metaplenet to provide support in transactions, storage and company BTC operations.
