One US BNB ETF exists: VanEck VBNB, Nasdaq, 28 May 2026, 0.39% fee, no staking, Anchorage custody. In 77 trading days it printed four non-zero flow days and about $1.1m net.
One US spot Polkadot ETF exists: 21Shares TDOT, Nasdaq, listed 6 March 2026 at 0.30%, staking 40–95% of its DOT. $9.5m of assets on 16 September 2026 and a 2.1bn DOT hard cap.
Eleven US spot ETH funds, fees from 0.14% to 2.50%, six of them staking. ETHA holds $8.6bn, ETHB pays out 82% of rewards monthly, and ETHE charges 16 times more than its own sibling.
30 US spot ETFs now hold 11 altcoins: 7 for Solana, 5 for XRP, 3 each for HYPE, DOGE, AVAX and SUI. Every ticker, issuer, listing date, staking status and fee, from 0.19% to 0.95%.
Three funds hold the same token at fees of 0.29%, 0.30% and 0.34%. The fee is the least interesting difference: staking arrangements, liquidity and how much of each fund is one seed investor matter more.
The ETF costs 0.29–0.34% plus a quarter of the staking reward. Holding the token yourself keeps the full 2.2% and unlocks fee discounts up to 40% — and requires a wallet, a seven-day unstaking queue and no retirement account.
HYPE ETF flows look strange next to Bitcoin: most days print zero, and one day in June accounted for 39% of everything ever raised. Here is how to read a flow series this small without drawing the wrong conclusion.
Three spot Hyperliquid ETFs listed in 2026: 21Shares THYP (12 May, 0.30%), Bitwise BHYP (15 May, 0.34%) and Grayscale HYPG (3 June, 0.29%). What they hold, why staking makes them different from a Bitcoin ETF, and how much money has actually arrived.
Europe listed a HYPE product nine months before the US did, and charges up to eight times more for it: 2.50% on the Swiss ETP against 0.29% in New York. Canada has nothing listed at all.
Buying BHYP, THYP or HYPG works like buying any share, with three wrinkles: the spread on a small fund costs more than the fee, the token trades 24/7 while the fund does not, and IRA access depends on your custodian.
All three US HYPE funds stake the tokens they hold — a structure the SEC refused Ethereum ETFs in 2024. Gross rewards ran 2.23% in August 2026, sponsors keep 25%, and the unstaking queue is the risk nobody prices.
Hyperliquid runs an on-chain order book with 0.07-second blocks and no gas on order placement. HYPE launched in November 2024 with no VC round, no private sale and a 31% airdrop, and around 97% of trading fees buy the token back.
A decade of denials, a vacated order, then an entire product category. The spot crypto ETF timeline with the real release numbers, from 2017 to the thirteen assets trading now.
Most EU guides quote one rate per country. The coin, a European bitcoin ETN and a US ETF share are three different tax regimes, and the famous 0% rules cover only one of them.
Capital Gains Tax on Bitcoin ETFs and ETPs for UK residents: 18% or 24% since the 2024 Budget, a £3,000 allowance, and why crypto ETNs left the stocks and shares ISA.
A spot Bitcoin ETF hands you a small taxable gain every year even if you never sell. Why that happens, what it costs in dollars, the 2026 rates, and how it all reaches Form 8949.
A self-directed crypto IRA holds real bitcoin and charges trading plus custody fees. A Bitcoin ETF in a normal IRA charges a published 0.15–0.25%. Here is how to compare them.
Strategy holds 846,000 BTC and trades below the market value of that bitcoin. That discount is not free money — $21bn of debt and preferred stock stands ahead of the common.
GLD, IAU, GLDM and SGOL against IBIT and FBTC on fee, size, custody and tax. Since the Bitcoin ETFs opened in January 2024, gold is up 118% and bitcoin 86%.
For investors who want both BTC and ETH exposure, the question is the split. Market-cap weighting says about 84/16 — and the old argument against ETH ETFs no longer holds.
A spot Bitcoin ETF gives you BTC, full stop. A crypto index ETF holds a basket — around three-quarters of which is bitcoin anyway. Here is when each makes sense.
A Bitcoin ETF gives you bitcoin. A mining stock gives you an operating business whose revenue happens to be denominated in bitcoin. They are not substitutes.
IBIT charges 0.25%; GBTC charges 1.50%. Switching saves $12,500 a year on a $1M position — unless the capital gains bill is bigger. Here is the math.
IBIT and FBTC charge the same 0.25% and give the same access. The differences that survive scrutiny are size, liquidity and custody. Here is the side-by-side.
Bitcoin's volatility makes Bitcoin ETFs unusually good tax-loss-harvesting candidates. Here is the mechanics, what the wash-sale rule actually says, and why its application here is unsettled.
A 9-point checklist for picking the right Bitcoin ETF — fee, custody, liquidity, tracking, broker access. Use it once and pick one fund.
What a Bitcoin ETF does inside a portfolio that funds living expenses: which retirement accounts can hold one, what bitcoin actually did since 2024 (47.7% volatility, a 53% fall), and why the order of returns matters more than the average.
The 1–5% bitcoin allocation is repeated everywhere. Here is what actually stands behind it, what the volatility really measures, and how to size the sleeve.
DCA is the default strategy for bitcoin accumulation through ETFs — but the math matters. We measured lump sum against DCA on every 12-month window since the ETFs launched.
Whether you can hold a Bitcoin ETF in your 401(k) depends on your plan, not your broker. Here is the landscape — and what changed in Washington in 2025.
Holding a Bitcoin ETF inside a Roth IRA is one of the most tax-efficient ways to accumulate bitcoin exposure. Here is the math, the mechanics, and the 2026 rules to know.
A practical comparison of US brokers for buying Bitcoin ETFs — Fidelity, Schwab, IBKR, Robinhood, and the last big holdout, which stopped holding out in December 2025.
A practical walkthrough of buying a Bitcoin ETF — choosing a broker, opening the right account, picking the fund, placing the order, and recording cost basis to stay tax-compliant.
BTCW is the smallest US spot Bitcoin ETF still trading — $136.5m of net assets at 30 June 2026 — at the same 0.25% fee as IBIT and FBTC. A solid product with nothing distinctive to sell.
HODL is the only US spot Bitcoin ETF that names Gemini Trust Company as its bitcoin custodian — with Coinbase as a second. Its investors also paid no sponsor fee at all from 25 November 2024 to 31 July 2026.
BTCO charges 0.25% — the same as IBIT and FBTC — and held $315.8m of net assets at 30 June 2026. Galaxy Digital is the fund's execution agent, not a sub-adviser. What the pairing actually buys you.
Franklin EZBC charges 0.19% — the cheapest of the eleven funds that launched in January 2024 — and held $334.7m of net assets at 30 June 2026. A small fund from a very large manager.
BITB is Bitwise's spot Bitcoin ETF — 0.20% fee, Coinbase custody, $2.13bn of net assets at 30 June 2026. The fifth-largest US spot Bitcoin ETF, run by a crypto-only manager.
ARKB carries the ARK name, but 21Shares US LLC is the sponsor and ARK Invest is only the sub-adviser. 0.21% fee, four custodians, $1.89bn — the sixth-largest US spot Bitcoin ETF.
GBTC is the legacy Bitcoin ETF — 1.50% fee, $8.1bn left after $27.8bn of outflows, the biggest closed-end-to-ETF conversion ever. Why it still exists and who still holds it.
FBTC is the second-largest spot Bitcoin ETF — $10.30bn at 30 June 2026 — and the only large fund holding no bitcoin at Coinbase. What in-house custody buys and where FBTC fits.
IBIT is the largest spot Bitcoin ETF in the world — 734,261 BTC and $43.4bn of net assets at 30 June 2026. A close look at fees, custody, liquidity and the risks of dominance.
Thirteen US spot Bitcoin ETFs, fees from 0.14% to 1.50%, and the last waiver gone since 31 July 2026. The full table, the cost in dollars, and when the spread matters more.
Spread, premium and closing drift measured across all twelve US spot Bitcoin ETFs, the GBTC discount that reached 48.9%, and what to check before you place an order.
Who the authorized participants are, how big a creation basket is at each US spot Bitcoin ETF, what changed when the SEC allowed in-kind orders on 29 July 2025, and what happens when creations stop.
ProShares' own annual report shows BITO compounding at −1.39% a year since 2021 while its bitcoin benchmark did +3.98%. Here is where the 5.37 points went, and why altcoins are repeating it.
A plumbing-level look at how a spot Bitcoin ETF holds its coins — which fund uses which custodian, how many now use two or more, and what "proof of reserves" does not verify.
Bitcoin ETFs and direct (spot) Bitcoin both give you BTC exposure, but they differ on custody, fees, taxes, trading hours and risk. A practical comparison with the numbers.