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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001838028-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HODL"
cik: "0001838028"
company_name: "VanEck Bitcoin ETF"
filed_at: "2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T03:56:29.522550+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# VanEck Bitcoin ETF changes index platforms; adds Bullish & Gemini

## Summary
- Effective Dec 2, 2024, Bitfinex and LMAX removed from MarketVector Bitcoin Benchmark Rate.
- Bullish and Gemini added as constituent trading platforms for the index.
- Current platform composition: Bitstamp, Bullish, Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken.
- Change affects the reference rate used by the VanEck Bitcoin ETF (HODL).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001838028-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HODL
- cik: 0001838028
- company_name: VanEck Bitcoin ETF
- filed_at: 2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838028/000183802825000008/0001838028-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1838028/000183802825000008/hodl-20250307.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001838028-25-000008.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001838028-25-000008.txt

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