Well, we've got ten days for this year to be finished. So if the SEC wants to do such, they better get started already. It's difficult to tell when these ETFs will meet an approval because of the way they are dragging their feet, but according to this news I got https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/sec-could-make-crypto-history-in-new-year-with-first-spot-bitcoin-etf-approval, it looks as if majority of fin companies that applied might get their Christmas package in January.
 If this gets done, it would only mean that the SEC have finally decided to give in to the numerous requests and finally cryptocurrency will receive mainstream adoption in the US.