GBTC Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF
A spot Bitcoin trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, GBTC returned −33.5% against Bitcoin’s −33.2%, 0.36 of a percentage point behind.
Key facts
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
14.621st of 24
GBTC kept 99.5% of what holding Bitcoin gave over the same days.
How much of what holding the coin gave did a holder of the fund keep?
That is the share of the 24 spot crypto ETPs with a full year sitting at or below GBTC. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
13th of 13 spot Bitcoin ETFs by where they finished against the coin
Period by period
| Window | The fund | Bitcoin | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | +21.9% | +21.8% | +0.1 pts |
| 3 months | +21.1% | +21.5% | −0.4 pts |
| 6 months | +7.8% | +8.8% | −1.1 pts |
| 1 year | −33.5% | −33.2% | −0.4 pts |
| Since it listed | +649.0% | +1008.7% | −32.4% of its growth |
In plain words
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, Bitcoin moved −33.2% and GBTC returned −33.5%. That leaves it 0.36 of a percentage point behind. 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. GBTC charges 1.50% a year and finished 0.4% behind Bitcoin, so the fee is more than the whole difference. 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 Bitcoin it custodies.
| Sponsor | Grayscale |
|---|---|
| Holds | Bitcoin |
| Sponsor’s fee (10-Q) | 1.50% |
| Net assets (10-Q balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026) | $8.1bn |
| Staking | the chain has none, so no fund holding it can pay a staking yield |
| Listed since | Jan 2, 2020 |
| Days traded | 1,682 |
| Days it closed unchanged | 12 |
| Quoted | on an exchange, every trading day |
| Price | $59.77 |
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- Does GBTC track Bitcoin?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned −33.5% against Bitcoin’s −33.2%, which leaves it 0.36 of a percentage point behind. That difference carries the fee, the custody cost and the market’s pricing of the shares, and ETFIQ computes it from the fund’s own closes and the coin’s own closes over the same two dates.
- Does GBTC stake?
- Bitcoin is a proof of work chain, so there is nothing to stake and no fund holding it can pay a staking yield.
- What is GBTC?
- Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF, a spot Bitcoin trust sponsored by Grayscale, listed Jan 2, 2020. It holds the coin through a custodian rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it.
The words on this page
- Tracking difference
- The fund’s total return minus the coin’s over exactly the same days, in percentage points. The fee, the custody cost, the creation and redemption friction and whatever the market paid for the shares, all of it, in one number.
- Spot
- The fund holds the coin itself, through a custodian, rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it. Only spot funds are on this desk; the others are measured where they belong.
- Sponsor
- Who runs the trust. A spot crypto ETF is a 1933 Act trust rather than a registered investment company, so it has a sponsor rather than an adviser, and files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT.
- Thinly quoted
- A fund whose price sat unchanged on more than one trading day in twenty. Its quoted return is what somebody paid on the days anyone traded, which is not the same thing as what the fund did, so ETFIQ shows it and does not rank it against funds that trade.
- Staking
- Only proof of stake coins can be staked, so it exists for ether and Solana funds and cannot exist for a bitcoin one. Where a fund stakes, the yield and the sponsor’s share of it are terms in its own filings.
Every term used here, defined in full on the crypto ETFs vocabulary page.
Where these figures came from
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