Circle Internet Group (ticker CRCL) went public on June 5, with its IPO priced at $31 per share. The stock surged nearly 200% shortly after listing, reaching around $115 per share, giving the company a market capitalization of about $25 billion. Circle powers USDC, the world's second-largest U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, with a market cap of approximately $61 billion. Following the IPO, ProShares and Bitwise have filed for ETFs based on CRCL stock. ProShares filed for a leveraged ETF, the ProShares Ultra CRCL fund, which aims to deliver twice the daily performance of Circle's Class A shares. Bitwise filed for the Bitwise CRCL Option Income Strategy ETF, which uses a covered call options strategy to generate income and limit downside risk. Both ETF filings have an effective date of August 20, 2025. USDC was created in 2018 through a collaboration between Circle and Coinbase, with Circle taking full control over USDC issuance and governance in 2023 after Coinbase acquired an equity stake in Circle.

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Less than one week on the public market, issuers have already filed for ETFs tracking the stock behind the world's second-largest stablecoin.The single-stock ETFs are based on peer-to-peer payments company Circle Internet Group (ticker CRCL), which began trading on June 5. Circle powers USDC, the world's second-largest U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin by market capitalization.The ProShares Ultra CRCL fund is a leveraged ETF tracking the daily performance of Class A common shares of Circle's stock. This means that the ETF should gain approximately twice as much as CRCL gains when CRCL rises on a given day.The Bitwise CRCL Option Income Strategy ETF is a covered call strategy, which is an options trading strategy where a trader sells a call option on a stock they already own. The strategy aims to generate income while potentially limiting downside risk.Each filing had an effective date of Aug. 20, 2025.Circle's IPO was priced at $31 per share and went live on the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday. It surged nearly 200% within minutes and currently trades around $115 per share. This gives Circle Internet Group a market cap of approximately $25 billion, according to Yahoo Finance.USDC's market cap sits around $61 billion, behind the Tether-issued USDT's $154 billion capUSDC was created in 2018, developed through a collaboration between Circle and Coinbase. In 2023, Circle announcedthat it would takefull control over USDC issuance and governance as part of a deal in which Coinbase acquired an equity stake in Circle.

After Circle's IPO, its stock price soared, and ProShares and Bitwise applied for ETFs based on CRCL.