QSOL vs SSK: Tracking, Returns & Fees
Over the window both share, QSOL finished 1.6 percentage points ahead of Solana and SSK 2.3 ahead. Net assets: $6m on Oct 20, 2026 for Invesco Galaxy Solana ETF, and $92m on Oct 19, 2026 for REX-Osprey SOL + Staking ETF.
QSOL costs 0.50 points a year less; SSK is 14.8 times larger.
| QSOL | SSK | |
|---|---|---|
| Expense ratio | 0.25% | 0.75% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 19, 2026 | $6m | $92m |
| Total return, 1 year | not published | −40.6% |
| What it tracks | Solana | Solana |
| Holdings in common | not published | |
| Against Solana, same days | 1.5% ahead of | 5.8% ahead of |
| Other funds holding Solana | +3.4%, 9 funds | +2.8%, 9 funds |
| Reports to the SEC on | 10-K, not N-PORT | |
QSOL since launch: fund −13.74%, Solana −15.19%, 1.46 pts ahead of Solana. 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
QSOL and SSK are both exposed to Solana. SSK is a registered investment company whose monthly N-PORT lists what it holds. QSOL is a 1933 Act trust holding Solana through a custodian. Over the days each has traded, QSOL finished 1.5 percentage points ahead of Solana and SSK 5.8% ahead once both returns are compounded, but the two windows are not the same days, so neither figure is set against the other here. That gap is the fee, the custody, the creation and redemption friction and the market’s pricing of the shares, compounded into one figure. SSK has 166 more days of record than QSOL, 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 | QSOL | SSK | QSOL | SSK | QSOL | SSK |
| 1 month | −7.2% | −7.1% | −7.1% | −7.1% | −0.1 pts | 0.0 pts |
| 3 months | +37.2% | +37.4% | +36.2% | +36.2% | +1.0 pts | +1.2 pts |
| 6 months | +27.0% | +27.7% | +25.3% | +25.3% | +1.6 pts | +2.3 pts |
| 1 year | – | −40.6% | – | −43.9% | – | +5.8% of its growth |
| Since each listed Not the same days: QSOL Dec 2025 · SSK Jul 2025 | −13.7% | −32.5% | −15.2% | −30.7% | +1.5 pts | −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 QSOL
QSOL 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 time since launch to Oct 20, 2026, Solana moved −15.2% and QSOL returned −13.7%. That leaves it 1.5 percentage points ahead. 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. QSOL charges 0.25% a year and finished 1.5% ahead of Solana, which a fee cannot do on its own. Solana is a proof of stake chain, so a fund holding it can stake. What the prices show is that it finished 1.5% ahead of Solana’s own price over the same days, against +3.4% for the other 9 funds holding Solana. After a fee, an in-kind ETP ahead of the asset it holds got there by staking. 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.
QSOL’s own filings say it does (10-Q, 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.
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
- Which tracked Solana more closely, QSOL or SSK?
- Over the days each has traded, QSOL finished 1.5 percentage points ahead of Solana and SSK 5.8% ahead once both returns are compounded. Those are not set against each other here, because the two windows are not the same days, so neither is nearer its coin than the other on this page. Each difference carries 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.
- Do QSOL 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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