{"url":"https://etfiq.com/questions/do-crypto-etfs-pay-staking-rewards","section":"questions","title":"Do crypto ETFs pay staking rewards? | ETFIQ","description":"Only the ones holding a proof of stake coin can, which is why no bitcoin fund ever will. ETFIQ does not take a sponsor\u2019s word for it.","as_of":"Oct 27, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Do crypto ETFs pay staking rewards?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Only the ones holding a proof of stake coin can, which is why no bitcoin fund ever will. Of the 56 spot crypto ETFs ETFIQ covers, 31 hold a coin that can be staked at all, 26 say in their own filings that they stake it, and 18 of those finished ahead of the price of the coin they hold, which is what staking looks like from outside the fund."}}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"ETFIQ","item":"https://etfiq.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Questions","item":"https://etfiq.com/questions/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Do crypto ETFs pay staking rewards?","item":"https://etfiq.com/questions/do-crypto-etfs-pay-staking-rewards"}]},{"@type":"WebPage","name":"Do crypto ETFs pay staking rewards?","description":"Only the ones holding a proof of stake coin can, which is why no bitcoin fund ever will. ETFIQ does not take a sponsor\u2019s word for it.","url":"https://etfiq.com/questions/do-crypto-etfs-pay-staking-rewards","dateModified":"2026-10-27","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":4956,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Questions / Do crypto ETFs pay staking rewards? \n \n Answered from ETFIQ data as of Oct 27, 2026 .\n Do crypto ETFs pay staking rewards?\n Only the ones holding a proof of stake coin can, which is why no bitcoin fund ever will. Of the 56 spot crypto ETFs ETFIQ covers, 31 hold a coin that can be staked at all, 26 say in their own filings that they stake it, and 18 of those finished ahead of the price of the coin they hold, which is what staking looks like from outside the fund.\n ETFIQ does not take a sponsor\u2019s word for it. A fund that charges a fee cannot beat the price of what it holds unless it earned something else, and on these chains staking is the only thing to earn. So the site prints three answers that can disagree: what the chain allows, what the trust\u2019s filings say, and what the prices did. Where they disagree, the page says so. Today they do not: every fund measurably ahead of its coin also says in its filings that it stakes.\n Staking exists on a proof of stake chain, where holders lock coin to secure the network and are paid for it. Bitcoin is proof of work. There is nothing to stake, and there never will be, so a bitcoin ETF has no staking yield.\n Where a fund holds a stakeable coin, three things decide what reaches a holder: whether the fund stakes at all, what share of the reward the sponsor keeps, and what the network pays, which moves. Those are terms in the trust\u2019s own filings, not a market number. ETFIQ reads them from the filings and dates them. It does not publish a staking yield it cannot point to a document for.\n A staking fund is not the same as staking the coin yourself. The fund holds the coin through a custodian and its shares stay liquid. Doing it directly means custody and, on some chains, a lock-up. The yields are comparable. The arrangements are not.\n On ETFIQ today\n Ticker Fund Holds Can it be staked? Its filings say Against the coin \n BAVA Bitwise Avalanche ETF Avalanche Yes, proof of stake it stakes +1.9 pts \n GAVA Grayscale Avalanche Staking ETF Avalanche Yes, proof of stake it stakes +1.3 pts \n VAVX VanEck Avalanche ETF Avalanche Yes, proof of stake it stakes +1.8 pts \n CRDD Cardano ETF Cardano Yes, proof of stake no clear answer read \u22127.9% \n CHNL Chainlink ETF Chainlink Yes, proof of stake no clear answer read +1.2 pts \n CLNK Bitwise Chainlink ETF Chainlink Yes, proof of stake it stakes +0.6 pts \n GLNK Grayscale Chainlink Trust ETF Chainlink Yes, proof of stake it stakes not comparable \n EETH ProShares Ether ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake no clear answer read \u22122.9% \n ETH Grayscale Ethereum Staking Mini ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it stakes +0.9 pts \n ETHA iShares Ethereum Trust ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it does not stake \u22120.2 pts \n ETHB iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it stakes +0.6 pts \n ETHE Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it stakes \u22120.5 pts \n ETHV VanEck Ethereum ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it does not stake \u22120.2 pts \n ETHW Bitwise Ethereum ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it does not stake \u22120.2 pts \n EZET Franklin Ethereum Trust Ether Yes, proof of stake it does not stake \u22120.2 pts \n FETH Fidelity Ethereum Fund Ether Yes, proof of stake it stakes \u22120.1 pts \n MSSE Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust Ether Yes, proof of stake it stakes +0.1 pts \n QETH Invesco Galaxy Ethereum ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it does not stake \u22120.2 pts \n TETH 21Shares Ethereum Staking ETF Ether Yes, proof of stake it stakes +0.2 pts \n HBR Canary HBAR ETF Hedera Yes, proof of stake it stakes \u22120.3 pts \n TDOT 21shares Polkadot Staking ETF Polkadot Yes, proof of stake it stakes +0.7 pts \n BSOL Bitwise Solana Staking ETF Solana Yes, proof of stake it stakes +5.8% \n FSOL Fidelity Solana Fund Solana Yes, proof of stake it stakes +4.0% \n GSOL Grayscale Solana Staking ETF Solana Yes, proof of stake it stakes not comparable \n \n Where to next\n Every spot crypto ETF The vocabulary Sources\n SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say Links are sources, not endorsements.\n ETFIQ is an independent publisher and makes no recommendations. 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