VAVX VanEck Avalanche ETF
A spot Avalanche trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.
Since listing to Sep 11, 2026, VAVX returned −34.5% against Avalanche’s −36.3%, 2.9% ahead once both returns are compounded.
Key facts
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
76.87th of 28
VAVX kept 102.8% of what holding Avalanche 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 28 spot crypto ETPs listed less than a year sitting at or below VAVX. 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.
Period by period
| Window | The fund | Avalanche | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | +18.1% | +18.1% | −0.1 pts |
| 3 months | +14.8% | +13.5% | +1.2 pts |
| 6 months | −22.2% | −23.3% | +1.1 pts |
| Since it listed | −34.5% | −36.3% | +2.9% of its growth |
In plain words
Over the time since it listed to Sep 11, 2026, Avalanche moved −36.3% and VAVX returned −34.5%. That leaves it 2.9% ahead once both returns are compounded. Over a window this long the two returns cannot simply be subtracted. Doing it would read +1.8 pts, which is arithmetically 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 103% of what holding the coin gave says exactly that. 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. VAVX charges 0.20% a year and still finished 2.9% ahead of Avalanche, which a fee cannot do on its own. Avalanche is a proof of stake chain, so a fund holding it can stake. VAVX’s own filings say it does (10-Q, Aug 13, 2026). What the prices show is that it finished 2.9% ahead of Avalanche’s own price over the same days, against +1.6% for the other 2 funds holding Avalanche. 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 Avalanche it custodies.
| Sponsor | VanEck |
|---|---|
| Holds | Avalanche |
| Sponsor’s fee (10-Q) | 0.20% |
| Fee waiver | the whole fee, but it ended on Feb 28, 2026. The sponsor's fee above is what the trust charges now. |
| Net assets (10-Q balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026) | $12m |
| Staking | the filings say the trust stakes |
| Listed since | Jan 26, 2026 |
| Days traded | 159 |
| Days it closed unchanged | 0 |
| Quoted | on an exchange, every trading day |
| Price | $15.5742 |
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- Does VAVX track Avalanche?
- Over the time since it listed to Sep 11, 2026 it returned −34.5% against Avalanche’s −36.3%, which leaves it 2.9% ahead once both returns are compounded. 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 VAVX stake?
- Avalanche is a proof of stake chain, so staking is possible. Whether this fund 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 VAVX?
- VanEck Avalanche ETF, a spot Avalanche trust sponsored by VanEck, listed Jan 26, 2026. 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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