---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-060410"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETHE"
cik: "0001725210"
company_name: "Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF"
filed_at: "2024-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T23:22:39.635375+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grayscale Ethereum Trust appoints BNY Mellon as transfer agent, effective upon NYSE Arca uplisting

## Summary
- BNY Mellon appointed as transfer agent under agreement dated May 8, 2024, executed May 13, 2024.
- Agreement becomes effective only when Trust shares begin trading on NYSE Arca as an exchange-traded product.
- Services include issuance/redemption of shares, maintaining shareholder records, and reporting.
- Fees are sponsor-paid expenses; BNY Mellon also serves as Trust administrator.
- Indemnification and standard of care provisions included.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-060410
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETHE
- cik: 0001725210
- company_name: Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF
- filed_at: 2024-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1725210/000095017024060410/0000950170-24-060410-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1725210/000095017024060410/ethe-20240513.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-060410.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF entered into Transfer Agency and Service Agreement with The Bank of New York Mellon (effective 2024-05-13).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: The Bank of New York Mellon
  - Effective: 2024-05-13
  source text: On May 13, 2024, Grayscale Investments, LLC, the sponsor (the “Sponsor”) of Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETH) (the “Trust”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York corporation authorized to do a banking business (“BNY Mellon”), entered into a Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (the “Transfer Agency and Service Agreement”) engaging BNY Mellon to serve as the transfer agent for the Trust (the “Transfer Agent”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1725210/000095017024060410/0000950170-24-060410-index.htm

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