GSOL vs SSK: Tracking, Returns & Fees
GSOL closed unchanged on more than a twentieth of its trading days, so its difference from Solana is not comparable with SSK’s. Net assets: $101m on Jun 30, 2026 for Grayscale Solana Staking ETF, and $92m on Oct 19, 2026 for REX-Osprey SOL + Staking ETF.
GSOL costs 0.56 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.2 points.
| GSOL | SSK | |
|---|---|---|
| Expense ratio | 0.19% | 0.75% |
| Net assets, GSOL as of Jun 30, 2026 and SSK as of Oct 19, 2026 | $101m | $92m |
| Total return, 1 year | −43.8% | −40.6% |
| What it tracks | Solana | Solana |
| Holdings in common | not published | |
| Other funds holding Solana | +2.8%, 9 funds | |
| Reports to the SEC on | 10-K, not N-PORT | |
GSOL over 1 year: fund −43.78%, Solana −43.88%, thinly traded so not compared. Figures to Oct 20, 2026.
Figures to Oct 20, 2026.
SSK over 1 year: fund −40.64%, Solana −43.88%, 5.77% ahead of Solana, compounded. Figures to Oct 20, 2026.
Figures to Oct 20, 2026.
The same coin, two trusts
GSOL and SSK are both exposed to Solana. SSK is a registered investment company whose monthly N-PORT lists what it holds. GSOL is a 1933 Act trust holding Solana through a custodian. GSOL 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. GSOL has 797 more days of record than SSK, and a longer record is a longer window over which a cost can show itself.
Performance, window by window
| Total return | The coin over the same days | Difference, percentage points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | GSOL | SSK | GSOL | SSK | GSOL | SSK |
| 1 month | −7.0% | −7.1% | −7.1% | −7.1% | not comparable | 0.0 pts |
| 3 months | +37.8% | +37.4% | +36.2% | +36.2% | not comparable | +1.2 pts |
| 6 months | – | +27.7% | – | +25.3% | – | +2.3 pts |
| 1 year | −43.8% | −40.6% | −43.9% | −43.9% | not comparable | +5.8% of its growth |
| 3 years | +1.1% | – | +294.4% | – | not comparable | – |
| Since each listed Not the same days: GSOL Apr 2023 · SSK Jul 2025 | +83.0% | −32.5% | +374.7% | −30.7% | not comparable | −1.7 pts |
Source: ETFIQ. – means no data for this window, usually because the fund is younger than it. Open this comparison in the app →
On the same fields
As of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
About GSOL
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 Oct 20, 2026, Solana moved −43.9% and GSOL returned −43.8%. 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 50 of its 731 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. 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.
GSOL’s own filings say it does (424B3, Aug 7, 2026).
About SSK
SSK is a registered fund investing in Solana and trades on an exchange, so a holder gets exposure to the coin inside a brokerage account rather than a wallet. Over the year to Oct 20, 2026, Solana moved −43.9% and SSK returned −40.6%. That leaves it 5.8% ahead once both returns are compounded. Over a window this long the two returns cannot simply be subtracted. SSK’s own filings say it does (the fund’s registered name, ). What the prices show is that it finished 5.8% ahead of Solana’s own price over the same days, against +2.8% for the other 9 funds holding Solana. After a fee, an in-kind ETP ahead of the asset it holds got there by staking.
Doing it would read +3.2 pts, which is correct and describes nothing a holder can act on: what the figure above states is the gap between the two growth factors, so a fund that kept 106% of what holding the coin gave says exactly that. SSK is a registered investment company: it files a monthly N-PORT rather than a 10-K. Its N-PORT for Jul 31, 2026 puts 55.1% of its net assets in Coins held directly and 43.2% in CoinShares Solana Staking ETP.
Questions people ask
- Can GSOL and SSK be compared on tracking?
- GSOL closed unchanged on more than a twentieth of its 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 SSK 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.
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