---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-097488"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TETH"
cik: "0001992508"
company_name: "21Shares Ethereum ETF"
filed_at: "2025-10-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:21:47.772816+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# 21Shares Ethereum ETF (TETH) introduces staking and 12-month fee waiver

## Summary
- Sponsor fee (0.21% TER) fully waived for 12 months starting October 9, 2025.
- Coinbase Crypto selected as staking services provider; agreement initial term two years with auto-renewal.
- Sponsor receives 25% of gross staking consideration; trust retains remainder.
- Trust will stake a portion of its ether to participate in Ethereum network validation and earn yield.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-097488
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TETH
- cik: 0001992508
- company_name: 21Shares Ethereum ETF
- filed_at: 2025-10-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1992508/000121390025097488/0001213900-25-097488-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1992508/000121390025097488/ea0260519-8k_21shares.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-097488
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-097488.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-097488.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  21Shares Ethereum ETF: Amended Trust Agreement to allow staking of ether (effective 2025-10-08).
  - Effective: 2025-10-08
  source text: On October 8, 2025, the Sponsor and CSC Delaware Trust Company, the Trustee of the Trust, entered into a Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”) to allow for staking of the Trust’s ether.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1992508/000121390025097488/0001213900-25-097488-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.