TSOL vs VSOL: which tracked its coin?
Against Solana, TSOL finished −2.3% and VSOL −1.9%, once both returns are compounded. 21Shares Solana Staking ETF and VanEck Solana ETF.
TSOL since launch: fund −10.03%, Solana −13.79%, 3.76 pts ahead of Solana.
VSOL since launch: fund −6.40%, Solana −9.79%, 3.39 pts ahead of Solana.
A percentile among the 25 spot crypto ETPs listed less than a year. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All crypto ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →
The same coin, two trusts
TSOL and VSOL 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. Over the days each has traded, TSOL finished 3.8 percentage points ahead of Solana and VSOL 3.4 percentage points ahead, 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.
Performance, window by window
| Total return | The coin over the same days | Difference, percentage points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | TSOL | VSOL | TSOL | VSOL | TSOL | VSOL |
| 1 month | +13.2% | +13.3% | +14.6% | +14.6% | −1.4 pts | −1.3 pts |
| 3 months | +54.4% | +53.8% | +52.6% | +52.6% | +1.9 pts | +1.3 pts |
| 6 months | +42.1% | +42.6% | +45.4% | +45.4% | −2.3% of its growth | −2.8 pts |
| Since each listed TSOL Nov 2025 · VSOL Nov 2025 | −10.0% | −6.4% | −13.8% | −9.8% | +3.8 pts | +3.4 pts |
TSOL and VSOL over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
TSOL and VSOL on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
TSOL in plain words
TSOL 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 it listed to Sep 30, 2026, Solana moved −13.8% and TSOL returned −10.0%. That leaves it 3.8 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. TSOL charges 0.21% a year and finished 3.8% 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. TSOL’s own filings say it does (424B3, Aug 13, 2026). What the prices show is that it finished 3.8% ahead of Solana’s own price over the same days, against +3.0% for the other 7 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.
VSOL in plain words
VSOL 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 it listed to Sep 30, 2026, Solana moved −9.8% and VSOL returned −6.4%. That leaves it 3.4 percentage points ahead. VSOL charges 0.30% a year and finished 3.4% ahead of Solana, which a fee cannot do on its own. VSOL’s own filings say it does (10-Q, Aug 13, 2026). What the prices show is that it finished 3.4% ahead of Solana’s own price over the same days, against +3.0% for the other 7 funds holding Solana.
Questions people ask
- Which tracked Solana more closely, TSOL or VSOL?
- Over the days each has traded, TSOL finished 3.8 percentage points ahead of Solana and VSOL 3.4 percentage points ahead. 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 TSOL or VSOL 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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