The SEC just gave Cardano a 75-day shortcut to a spot ETF that took Bitcoin 240 days

CME’s Cardano futures went live on Feb. 9, and that date may matter more for ETFs than for trading. Under the SEC’s new generic listing standards for commodity-based trust shares, one of the clearest fast lanes for a spot crypto ETP is having regulated futures on a CFTC-supervised venue for at least six months. That turns Feb. 9 into a starting gun: if CME’s ADA futures remain listed and active, the earliest six-mont…