Morgan Stanley seeks Solana ETF with staking in SEC filing
Wall Street bank submits S-1s for Bitcoin and Solana trusts; Solana filing includes staking.
Morgan Stanley filed registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday for spot Bitcoin and Solana exchange-traded funds, including a staking feature in the Solana trust.
The firm submitted S-1s for the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust. The staking component would enable the Solana fund to participate in network validation to earn rewards, subject to the fund’s policies and service providers. The SEC posted the disclosures on Tuesday. The filings did not include a launch timeline.
If cleared, the funds would provide exchange-traded exposure to bitcoin and solana. The filings would place Morgan Stanley alongside existing crypto ETF issuers such as BlackRock and Fidelity. Morgan Stanley oversees about $6.4 trillion in assets.
U.S. regulators allowed spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024. Cumulative trading across U.S. spot crypto ETFs has surpassed $2 trillion. The market took more than a year to reach its first $1 trillion in volume and about eight months to add the second trillion. Assets in spot Bitcoin ETFs have risen above $123.5 billion, or roughly 6.6% of bitcoin’s market value, while bitcoin has traded below $100,000 in recent sessions.
The filing comes amid changes at the SEC. After President Donald Trump returned to office, the agency approved generic listing standards for cryptocurrency exchange-traded products in September 2025 on an accelerated basis. Those standards allow eligible funds to list without individual 19b-4 rule-change filings that previously could extend up to 240 days.
Morgan Stanley has been expanding its digital asset offerings. Last year the firm set a 4% allocation cap for “opportunistic” portfolios that include crypto and moved to open crypto access across all client accounts, including retirement plans.
As we covered previously, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs logged $697.25 million in net inflows on Monday – the biggest single-day total since early October-bringing the two-day start to 2026 to more than $1.16 billion after Friday’s $471 million. Inflows broadened beyond bitcoin: spot Ethereum ETFs added $168.13 million, and additional demand appeared for products tied to Solana, Ripple, Dogecoin, and Chainlink.
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