---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-109236"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NCIQ"
cik: "0002031069"
company_name: "Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF"
filed_at: "2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T21:50:02.934034+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index ETF extends sponsor fee cut to 0.25% through 2026; enables in-kind creations

## Summary
- Sponsor fee temporarily reduced to 0.25% per annum through Dec 31, 2026; standard 0.50% resumes after.
- Fourth Amended and Restated Trust Agreement adopted to allow in-kind creation and redemption of baskets.
- Nasdaq filed rule change on Sept 22, 2025 to permit reliance on generic listing standards for in-kind operations.
- Authorized Participants may create/redeem with crypto assets; Coinbase may serve as prime execution agent.
- If in-kind order fails, alternative cash settlement method available per Trust procedures.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-109236
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NCIQ
- cik: 0002031069
- company_name: Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF
- filed_at: 2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2031069/000121390025109236/0001213900-25-109236-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2031069/000121390025109236/ea0263596-8k_hashdex.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-109236.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-109236.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF: Fourth Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to allow for in-kind creation and redemption transactions (effective 2025-11-12).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-12
  source text: The Trust Agreement made changes to the Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to reflect necessary changes in order to allow for in-kind creation and redemption transactions.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2031069/000121390025109236/0001213900-25-109236-index.htm

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