Data as of .
GSOL vs OSOL: which tracked its coin?
GSOL closed unchanged on more than a twentieth of its trading days, so its difference from Solana is not comparable with OSOL’s.
The same coin, two trusts
GSOL and OSOL hold the same asset. Both are 1933 Act trusts holding Solana through a custodian, so neither has a portfolio to compare: the whole of each fund is one line. GSOL and OSOL closed unchanged on more than a twentieth of its trading days, so its distance from Solana is a quote nobody moved rather than a cost a holder paid, and ETFIQ neither prints it nor ranks it. OSOL has 304 more days of record than GSOL, and a longer record is a longer window over which a cost can show itself.
Performance, window by window
| Window | Total return | The coin over the same days | Difference, percentage points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GSOL | OSOL | GSOL | OSOL | GSOL | OSOL | |
| 1 month | +35.4% | 0.0% | +35.6% | +35.6% | not comparable | not comparable |
| 3 months | +55.2% | +156.3% | +53.4% | +53.4% | not comparable | not comparable |
| 6 months | −44.5% | +105.0% | −47.2% | +16.1% | not comparable | not comparable |
| 1 year | −63.0% | −8.0% | −55.2% | −55.2% | not comparable | not comparable |
| Since each listed | +75.5% | +257.3% | +358.7% | +166.2% | not comparable | not comparable |
| GSOL Grayscale Solana Staking ETF Holds Solana through a custodian, listed Apr 27, 2023, quoted thinly | OSOL Osprey Solana Trust Holds Solana through a custodian, listed Jun 27, 2022, quoted thinly | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsor | Grayscale | Osprey |
| Holds | Solana | Solana |
| Net assets | $101m, balance sheet of Jun 30, 2026 | not read |
| Sponsor’s fee | 0.19% | 2.50% |
| Fee waiver | none | none |
| Staking | the filings say it does | the filings say it does |
| Listed | Apr 27, 2023 | Jun 27, 2022 |
| Days since listing | 1,233 days | 1,537 days |
| Days it has traded | 704 | 1,056 |
| Days it closed unchanged | 49 | 204 |
| Quoted | thinly, and not ranked against funds that trade daily | thinly, and not ranked against funds that trade daily |
| Fund returned, 1 year or since launch | −63.0% | −8.0% |
| The coin over the same days | −55.2% | −55.2% |
| Difference, percentage points | not comparable | not comparable |
| Fund returned since it listed | +75.5% | +257.3% |
| Difference since it listed | not comparable | not comparable |
| Price | $7.73 | $2.2804 |
GSOL in plain words
GSOL holds Solana through a custodian and trades on an exchange, so a holder gets the coin’s return inside a brokerage account rather than a wallet. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, Solana moved −55.2% and GSOL returned −63.0%. That leaves it not comparable. That difference is the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin, all of it together. It is the only figure on this page the sponsor does not publish itself. GSOL closed unchanged on 49 of its 704 trading days. A price that does not move is a price nobody traded at, so its difference against Solana describes the days somebody did trade rather than the fund, and ETFIQ does not rank it against funds that trade every day. Solana is a proof of stake chain, so a fund holding it can stake. GSOL’s own filings say it does (424B3, Aug 7, 2026). Over the window ETFIQ measures it did not finish ahead of Solana’s own price, so whatever it earned did not cover its costs. A spot trust is not a registered investment company. It files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT, and its holding is one line: the Solana it custodies.
OSOL in plain words
OSOL holds Solana through a custodian and trades on an exchange, so a holder gets the coin’s return inside a brokerage account rather than a wallet. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, Solana moved −55.2% and OSOL returned −8.0%. OSOL closed unchanged on 204 of its 1056 trading days. OSOL’s own filings say it does (S-1, Oct 22, 2025).
Questions people ask
- Can GSOL and OSOL be compared on tracking?
- GSOL and OSOL closed unchanged on more than a twentieth of their trading days. A price that does not move is a price nobody traded at, so the difference from Solana describes the days somebody did trade rather than the fund, and ETFIQ publishes it nowhere and ranks it against nothing.
- Do GSOL or OSOL pay a staking yield?
- Solana is a proof of stake chain, so staking is possible. Whether either trust stakes, and what the sponsor keeps of it, is a term in its own filings and is read from those rather than assumed.
- What is the difference between GSOL and OSOL?
- Both hold Solana through a custodian and both trade on an exchange, so what separates them is what each costs a holder over time. GSOL is sponsored by Grayscale and listed Apr 27, 2023; OSOL by Osprey, listed Jun 27, 2022.
- Which is cheaper, GSOL or OSOL?
- GSOL charges 0.19% a year and OSOL charges 2.50%, so GSOL is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
Other comparisons
Where these figures came from
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Cite this page. ETFIQ, GSOL against OSOL, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/crypto/GSOL-OSOL Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.