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TDOT 21shares Polkadot Staking ETF
A spot Polkadot trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.21Shares0.30% fee$12mFirst traded Mar 6, 2026Fund page at the issuer ↗SEC filings ↗Every 21Shares fund ETFIQ covers
Since launch to Oct 9, 2026, TDOT returned −18.2% against Polkadot’s −19.2%, 1.1 percentage points ahead.
−18.2%
Total return, since launch
−19.2%
Polkadot over the same days
+1.1 pts
Difference against Polkadot, in percentage points
148
Days it has traded
Where every fund in this set sits
How much of what holding the coin gave did a holder of the fund keep?
99.1% to 105.4% across 24
That is the share of the 24 spot crypto ETPs listed less than a year sitting at or below TDOT.
A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another category's.
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
56.311th of 24
TDOT kept 101.3% of what holding Polkadot gave over the same days.
share of the coin's growth it kept101.3% · 56th pct
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| Window | The fund | Polkadot | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 9 – Oct 9, 2026 | +7.6% | +7.6% | 0.0 pts |
| 3M Jul 10 – Oct 9, 2026 | +38.3% | +38.0% | +0.3 pts |
| 6M Apr 10 – Oct 9, 2026 | −7.9% | −8.7% | +0.8 pts |
| Since launch Mar 6 – Oct 9, 2026 | −18.2% | −19.2% | +1.1 pts |
Source: ETFIQ.
Head to head
Funds near this one
In plain words
TDOT’s own filings say it does (424B3, Aug 14, 2026).
Summary
Over the time since launch to Oct 9, 2026, Polkadot moved −19.2% and TDOT returned −18.2%. That leaves it 1.1 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. TDOT charges 0.30% a year and finished 1.1% ahead of Polkadot, which a fee cannot do on its own. Polkadot is a proof of stake chain, so a fund holding it can stake. What the prices show is that it finished 1.1% ahead of Polkadot’s own price over the same days. 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 Polkadot it custodies.
Sponsor21Shares
HoldsPolkadot
Sponsor’s fee (424B3)0.30%
Net assets (issuer page, as of Oct 9, 2026)$12m
Stakingthe filings say the trust stakes
First tradedMar 6, 2026
Days traded148
Days it closed unchanged0
Quotedon an exchange, every trading day
Price$14.461
Against Polkadot, same days1.1% ahead of
Reports to the SEC on10-K, not N-PORT
How this is computed
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask about TDOT
- Does TDOT track Polkadot?
- Over the time since launch to Oct 9, 2026 it returned −18.2% against Polkadot’s −19.2%, which leaves it 1.1 percentage points ahead. 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 TDOT stake?
- Polkadot 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 TDOT?
- 21shares Polkadot Staking ETF, a spot Polkadot trust sponsored by 21Shares, first traded Mar 6, 2026. It holds the coin through a custodian rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it.
Sources and dates
Prices, TDOT and PolkadotPrices, Tiingo end of day ↗
Net assets, $12mIssuer page · Oct 9, 2026
All fund filingsFilings on SEC EDGAR ↗
Issuer21Shares page for TDOT ↗
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ETFIQ, TDOT, crypto ETFs, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/tdot
ETFIQ. (Oct 9, 2026). TDOT, crypto ETFs. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/tdot
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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 in this category; the others are measured where they belong.
Sponsor
Who runs the fund. Most spot crypto ETFs are 1933 Act trusts rather than registered investment companies, so they have a sponsor rather than an adviser, and file 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.
TDOT, Crypto ETFs, ETFIQ, data as of Oct 9, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, is not a fund issuer, broker-dealer or investment adviser, and makes no recommendations.