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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-093809"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETCG"
cik: "0001705181"
company_name: "Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust (ETC)"
filed_at: "2022-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T10:51:32.453317+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust reduces Sponsor's Fee from 3.0% to 2.5%

## Summary
- Sponsor's Fee cut from 3.0% to 2.5% of Digital Asset Holdings Fee Basis Amount, effective April 1, 2022.
- Sponsor will stop directing up to one-third of its fee to Ethereum Classic Network initiatives after April 2022.
- Barry Silbert resigned from the Ethereum Classic Cooperative board effective April 1, 2022.
- Fee reduction lowers expense ratio for trust shareholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-093809
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETCG
- cik: 0001705181
- company_name: Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust (ETC)
- filed_at: 2022-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705181/000119312522093809/0001193125-22-093809-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705181/000119312522093809/d235397d8k.htm

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