Very often in my life I have seen wave analysis lead the news, and I strongly believe this is going to be one of those times. When you analyze that facts surrounding the possibility of the Direxion ETFs passing, and the statements made by the SEC such as:
"For example, existing or newly created bitcoin futures markets may achieve significant size, and an ETP listing exchange may be able to demonstrate in a proposed rule change that it will be able to address the risk of fraud and manipulation by sharing surveillance information with a regulated market of significant size related to bitcoin, as well as, where appropriate, with the spot markets underlying relevant bitcoin derivatives" -SEC, July 2018
And this is from the proposed prospectus of Direxion's NYSE-endorsed ETF:
"Unlike conventional ETFs, the Fund is “actively managed” and does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified futures contract. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a combination of financial instruments that are economically linked to the CME and CBOE bitcoin futures contracts which are priced utilizing the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (“BRR”) a standardized reference rate and spot price index and the Gemini Exchange Auction price from the Gemini Exchange, respectively. The BRR utilizes information from several bitcoin exchanges and trading platforms." -Direxion Bitcoin ETF Prospectus
This means that the Direxion ETF is actually based on the CME futures, which is a regulated and surveillanced market that is resistant to manipulation and fraud (according to the SEC), and futures are based on the Bitcoin Reference Rate, which is a specially calculated rate that is designed in specific to be resistant to manipulation and fraud, and based on regulated bitcoin markets. So this literally fits perfectly into what the SEC is looking for to comply with the Exchange Act and has a very high chance of passing.
The SEC even specifically says it's possible "existing" BTC futures products could be used in a future ETF, if it can be shown to have all the above qualities, and it will be shown to have that because they do, it's just a matter of time.