The fund invests in a combination of spot solana, other solana funds, and liquid staking tokens such as the popular JitoSOL.
Rex Shares Rolls out First Solana Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) in the U.S. With Staking
ETF provider Rex Shares and crypto investment firm Osprey Funds have launched the first spot solana ( SOL) ETF in the U.S. with onchain staking rewards. But the approval was a little quirky. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) essentially allowed the fund to launch on Friday, June 27 by indicating it had “no further comments” regarding the Rex-Osprey application.
(The Rex-Osprey Solana + Staking ETF (SSK) made its debut in the U.S. on Wednesday / Yahoo Finance)
The Rex-Osprey SOL and Staking ETF (SSK) primarily invests in spot staked solana, but 40% of its assets will be allocated to exchange-traded products that also invest in staked SOL, according to a press release provided to Bitcoin.com. A small allocation will be also be made to solana liquid staking tokens such as JitoSOL. Jito is a Solana liquid staking protocol similar to Ethereum’s Lido, but Jito incorporates maximal extractable value (MEV) which involves validators arranging transactions in the most profitable sequences to increase reward levels.
The curious nature of the SEC’s response is likely because SSK, differs from typical ETFs, and is organized as a “C corporation,” which means it’s taxed separately from its owners and allows staking proceeds to pass through to investors.
“Unlike most ETFs, the Fund will not be taxed as a regulated investment company for U.S. federal income tax purposes because of its limited number of holdings,” the filing documentation states. “Rather it will be taxed as a regular subchapter C corporation which means taxable income generally must be recognized at both the Fund level and shareholder level.”
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