Crypto ETF list: every fund, ticker and fee

This page is a reference, not an argument. If you want a view on which of these funds suits which kind of buyer, that is on the comparison page. Here we set out what exists, what it charges and where it trades — with the date the numbers were checked, because a stale fund size is worse than none at all.

How to read this list

Four columns do most of the work and it is worth knowing what each one is actually telling you.

Fee is the sponsor's annual charge, deducted from fund assets rather than billed to you. It is not the whole cost of ownership — see fees and expense ratios — but it is the part that is contractual and predictable.

Size is a proxy for liquidity. A larger fund generally means tighter spreads, more authorised participants competing on the arbitrage, and a lower chance of the sponsor deciding the product is not worth running. It is not a quality signal in itself.

Listed on is the exchange that admitted the shares. It rarely affects a retail buyer, but it disambiguates tickers.

Custodian is the name most comparison tables leave out and the one we would look at hardest. It tells you where the actual coins are, and how much genuine diversification you get from owning two different funds.

Spot bitcoin ETFs

Eleven funds listed on 11 January 2024, the day after the SEC's approval order. Two things have happened since: fees at the bottom of the range have stayed remarkably stable while assets concentrated dramatically at the top, and one fund has left the market entirely.

The shape of that table is the story of the category. IBIT holds more than three times the assets of every other fund on the list combined, not because it is structurally different but because it arrived with BlackRock's distribution behind it. GBTC's continued size at 1.50% — six to ten times what its competitors charge — is not a mystery either: a great many holders came in before 2024 at much lower cost bases, and selling to switch would crystallise a capital gain larger than years of fee savings.

Spot ether ETFs

Ether funds launched in July 2024 and were initially required to leave staking out entirely. That changed: the SEC subsequently cleared staking structures, and the category split into funds that hold ether passively and funds that stake it and pass a payout through.

The staking question is the one genuinely interesting thing about this sub-category. Grayscale's ETHE became the first US crypto ETP to distribute a staking payout to shareholders on 5 January 2026. BlackRock followed on 12 March 2026 with ETHB, a separate fund that stakes its ether and pays monthly, running alongside the original non-staking ETHA. A fund that holds ether without staking it is, in effect, choosing to leave the protocol payout on the table in exchange for simplicity and liquidity. Whether that is the right call depends on how much the payout is worth net of the operational risk, which is a judgement the sponsors have made differently.

Single-asset altcoin ETFs

The September 2025 generic listing standards are the reason this section exists. Before them, every new crypto ETP needed its own rule change filing and a nine-month clock. Afterwards, exchanges could list qualifying products under a standing rule, and issuers went straight to the S-1. The SEC asked several issuers to withdraw pending 19b-4 filings precisely because they were no longer needed.

Multi-asset index funds

Two products dominate this small category, and both arrived by converting an existing closed-end trust rather than launching cold.

Both charge considerably more than a single-asset bitcoin fund, and the reason is worth stating plainly: you are paying for index construction, rebalancing and the operational work of custodying five or ten different assets. Whether that is worth 0.59% or 0.75% when bitcoin is roughly 72% of the basket anyway is a fair question, and we take a view on it on the index funds page.

Funds that closed

Hashdex's DEFI, one of the original eleven January 2024 listings, was liquidated in August 2026. It is a useful reminder that the launch cohort is not permanent. In a category where one fund holds roughly half the assets, the funds at the bottom of the table are operating at a scale where the economics are marginal for the sponsor.

If a fund you hold announces liquidation, the mechanics are undramatic: trading stops on a stated date, the assets are sold, and you receive cash at net asset value. The problem is not the process, it is that you did not choose the timing. For a UK investor holding the equivalent note outside a wrapper, that is a disposal for capital gains purposes on a date set by someone else.

What a UK investor sees instead

Search any of the tickers above in a UK retail brokerage account and you will get no result, or a result you cannot trade. What you will find instead is the London-listed note equivalent, usually from the same issuer: IB1T rather than IBIT for BlackRock, BTC1 and BTCE for Bitwise, CBTC for 21Shares.

The exposure is materially similar and, in 2026, the fees on the London lines are generally lower than their American counterparts — Bitwise at 0.05% and 21Shares at 0.10% undercut every fund in the bitcoin table above. That is a genuinely unusual outcome and a direct product of several issuers landing in the same newly reachable market at once. The full list and the structural caveats are on the UK page.