What a coin costs in a brokerage account

Of the 49 spot crypto ETFs ETFIQ can measure on Oct 26, 2026, 38 finished within a point of the coin they hold, and the typical difference is 0.20%. That difference is the fee, the custody, the cost of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin. It is the only number on this desk the sponsor does not publish itself.

12 coins are represented across 54 exchange traded funds. A coin with several funds on it is where the difference is worth reading: the coin's own move is the same for all of them, so what separates the funds is what each one costs to hold. 2 trusts are quoted too thinly to compare, closing unchanged on more than one trading day in twenty. Their difference against the coin describes the days somebody traded rather than what the fund did, and they are published with that said rather than ranked. 38 fund-windows cannot state their gap by subtraction at all. Once either return has compounded, the difference of two returns is dominated by the compounding: $ETHE since January 2020 returned +627.8% against Ether's +1,854.4%, which subtracts to -1,227 points and means nothing. The compounded gap is -62.8%, and that is what the site prints for those windows.