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VAVX VanEck Avalanche ETF
A spot Avalanche trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.VanEck0.20% fee$12mSince Jan 26, 2026SEC filings ↗Every VanEck fund ETFIQ covers
Since listing to Sep 30, 2026, VAVX returned −4.2% against Avalanche’s −6.7%, 2.5 percentage points ahead.
−4.2%
Total return, time since it listed
−6.7%
Avalanche over the same days
+2.5 pts
Difference against Avalanche, in percentage points
172
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?
96.1% to 105.7% across 25
That is the share of the 25 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.
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
74.07th of 25
VAVX kept 102.7% of what holding Avalanche gave over the same days.
share of the coin's growth it kept102.7% · 74th pct
| Window | The fund | Avalanche | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2026 | +51.8% | +51.2% | +0.6 pts |
| 3M Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026 | +65.1% | +64.1% | +1.0 pts |
| 6M Apr 1 – Sep 30, 2026 | +21.3% | +19.7% | +1.5 pts |
| Since it listed Jan 26 – Sep 30, 2026 | −4.2% | −6.7% | +2.5 pts |
VAVX over each window to Sep 30, 2026. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation. Source: ETFIQ.
Head to head
In plain words
Over the time since it listed to Sep 30, 2026, Avalanche moved −6.7% and VAVX returned −4.2%. That leaves it 2.5 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. VAVX charges 0.20% a year and finished 2.5% 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 2.5% ahead of Avalanche’s own price over the same days, against +1.8% 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.
SponsorVanEck
HoldsAvalanche
Sponsor’s fee (10-Q)0.20%
Fee waiverthe 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, as of Jun 30, 2026)$12m
Stakingthe filings say the trust stakes
Listed sinceJan 26, 2026
Days traded172
Days it closed unchanged0
Quotedon an exchange, every trading day
Price$22.7813
VAVX (VanEck Avalanche ETF), crypto ETFs fields as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask about VAVX
- Does VAVX track Avalanche?
- Over the time since it listed to Sep 30, 2026 it returned −4.2% against Avalanche’s −6.7%, which leaves it 2.5 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 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.
Sources and dates
Prices, VAVX and AvalanchePrices, Tiingo end of day ↗
Net assets, $12mSEC 10-Q balance sheet · Jun 30, 2026
All fund filingsFilings on SEC EDGAR ↗
IssuerVanEck website ↗
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Cite this page
ETFIQ, VAVX, crypto ETFs, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vavx
ETFIQ. (Sep 30, 2026). VAVX, crypto ETFs. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/vavx
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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 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.
VAVX, Crypto ETFs, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 30, 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.