ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF

C000246486 Fund Overview

ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF is a US ETF managed by EA Series Trust, categorised as United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Thematic Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US ETF
• Manager: EA Series Trust
• Category: United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Thematic Equity
• Assets under management: $5.15M
• 1-year return: 62.3%
• SEC CIK: 0001592900
• SEC series ID: S000083010
• Share class ID: C000246486

C000246486 Investment Objective and Strategy

ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by EA Series Trust.

Investment objective

The ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF (the Fund) seeks capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund. Under normal conditions, the Fund seeks to outperform the returns of bitcoin over a market cycle by dynamically allocating its assets between bitcoin futures contracts and ether futures contracts. The Fund will primarily obtain its exposure to bitcoin futures contracts and ether futures contracts through investments in the ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Futures Strategy ETF and/or the ARK 21Shares Active Ethereum Futures Strategy ETF (Active Bitcoin Futures ETF and Active Ethereum Futures ETF, together the Underlying ETFs), which are affiliated funds that are managed by the same investment team as the Fund. Allocations are determined based on the assessment of the Funds sub-adviser, 21Shares US LLC (the Sub-Adviser). ARK Investment Management LLC (ARK), the Funds sub-subadviser, provides non-discretionary advice to the Sub-Adviser related to the spot bitcoin market and spot ether market.

The Sub-Adviser may, in its sole discretion, consider the advice provided by ARK when making investment decisions for the Fund to the extent the Sub-Adviser deems necessary. The Sub-Adviser and ARK rely on their expertise in digital asset markets and long-run market expectations, and they may take into account a variety of factors including, but not limited to: Historical and expected correlations between bitcoin and ether; Fundamental analysis of the markets for bitcoin and ether as well as other markets that may impact the prices of bitcoin and ether; and Interest rates and other macroeconomic factors. The portfolio managers may employ both fundamental and quantitative tools to assess market conditions. The Fund considers a neutral weighting to be approximately the relative market capitalization of each asset.

The relative market capitalizations of bitcoin and ether are determined by multiplying the assets current price by the amount of each asset in circulation. As of September 30, 2024, the market capitalization weight of bitcoin and ether was 80% and 20%, respectively. The neutral allocation serves as a point of departure for evaluating the market and the extent to which the Funds actual allocations adhere to the neutral allocation may vary substantially from period-to-period based on the views of the portfolio managers. The Fund trades tactically to exploit short-term market dislocations or other profit opportunities related to the relative prices of bitcoin and ether or their futures. The Fund may also implement longer-term strategic tilts relative to the neutral weighting. Under normal conditions, the Fund invests more than 25% of its total assets in investments that provide exposure to (i) bitcoin and/or Bitcoin Futures and/or (ii) ether and/or Ether Futures.

In addition, under normal conditions, the Fund will allocate its remaining net assets to cash and cash equivalents, primarily U.S. government securities, such as U.S. Treasury instruments. There is no restriction on the duration or composition of the Funds holdings of government securities, which are designed to generate yield while also providing liquidity. The Fund may also invest in other investment companies for cash management purposes. Each Underlying ETF invests in Bitcoin Futures and Ether Futures (as defined below) through a subsidiary. Through each such subsidiary, the Active Bitcoin Futures ETF may invest in standardized, exchange-traded bitcoin futures contracts and the Active Ethereum Futures ETF may invest in standardized, exchange-traded ether futures contracts that are cash settled in U.S.

dollars and are traded on, or subject to the rules of, commodity exchanges registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (the CME) (Bitcoin Futures and Ether Futures, respectively and collectively, Crypto Asset Futures Exposure). What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital asset also referred to as a digital asset or a crypto asset. Bitcoin, as a digital asset, is a unit of account on the bitcoin network, an open source, decentralized peer-to-peer computer network, which is also known as the Bitcoin Blockchain. Bitcoin may be held as an investment, may be used to purchase goods and services, or may be exchanged for fiat currency (like U.S. dollars). No single entity owns or operates the bitcoin network and the value of bitcoin is not backed by any government, corporation or other central body.

Instead, the value of bitcoin is determined by supply and demand in markets created to facilitate trading and transactions in bitcoin. Because the source code for the bitcoin network is open-source, anyone can contribute to its development. Ownership and transaction records for bitcoin are protected by information technology known as cryptography, which is designed to protect the digital asset and only permits transactions to take place if certain conditions are satisfied. Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is an encryption scheme that uses two mathematically related, but not identical, keys - a public key and a private key. Unlike symmetric key algorithms that rely on one key to both encrypt and decrypt, each key performs a unique function. The public key is used to encrypt, and the private key is used to decrypt.

Transactions in bitcoin that occur on the network are also encrypted, which is designed to prevent anyone from creating counterfeit assets or from spending more money than is in their account. The ultimate supply of bitcoin is finite and limited to 21 million coins. The amount of bitcoin currently available continues to increase as new bitcoin supplies will be mined until the 21 million protocol cap is reached. The bitcoin network is operated by a decentralized group of participants who run computer software that validates and records transactions in bitcoin (miners), developers who propose changes and improvements to this software, and users who use the software. Periodically, the software used by the bitcoin network is modified, which can result in different versions of bitcoin (forks). Although the Fund does not invest directly in bitcoin, the value of Bitcoin Futures can be affected by forks.

What is Ether? Ether is a digital asset also known as a crypto asset. Ether, as a digital asset, is a unit of account on the Ethereum network, an open source, decentralized peer-to-peer computer network. The ethereum network is governed by a set of rules that are commonly referred to as the Ethereum protocol. Ether may be held as an investment, may be used to purchase goods and services, stored for future use, or may be exchanged for fiat currency (like U.S. dollars). No single entity owns or operates the Ethereum network and the value of ether is not backed by any government, corporation or other central body. Instead, the value of ether is determined, in part, by supply and demand in markets created to facilitate trading and transactions in ether. Ether is the second largest digital asset by market capitalization behind bitcoin.

Because the source code for the Ethereum network is open-source, anyone can contribute to its development. Ownership and transaction records for ether are protected by information technology known as cryptography, which is designed to protect the digital asset and only permits transactions to take place if certain conditions are satisfied. Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is an encryption scheme that uses two mathematically related, but not identical, keys - a public key and a private key. Unlike symmetric key algorithms that rely on one key to both encrypt and decrypt, each key performs a unique function. The public key is used to encrypt, and the private key is used to decrypt. The Ethereum network is operated by a decentralized group of participants who run computer software that validates and records transactions in ether (validators), developers who propose changes and improvements to the Ethereum protocol and the software that enforces the Ethereum protocol, and users who use the Ethereum software.

Periodically, the software used by the Ethereum network is modified, which can result in different versions of ether (forks). Although the Fund and Active Ethereum Futures ETF do not invest directly in ether, the value of Ether Futures can be affected by forks. For instance, in June 2016, the Ethereum community faced a divisive choice: whether to reverse a large hack (theft) of ether from a third-party project called The DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that was designed to act as a decentralized, investor-directed venture capital firm operating in the Ethereum ecosystem. While the hack didnt directly impact the Ethereum protocol itself, it harmed trust in the ecosystem. The majority of the ecosystem chose to reverse the hacked transactions and return the stolen ether to its original holders, while a minority believed that reversing the transactions was the incorrect course.

This led to a hard fork in the Ethereum Blockchain, with the smaller of the two communities taking the name Ethereum Classic and running a separate blockchain with its own native crypto asset. Additional forks of the Ethereum Blockchains are possible. A large-scale fork could introduce risk, uncertainty, or confusion into the Ethereum Blockchains, or could fraction the value of the main blockchain and its native crypto asset, which could significantly impact the value of ether, and thereby of the Ether Futures held by the Fund. What are Bitcoin Futures and Ether Futures? Bitcoin Futures and Ether Futures are futures contracts traded on a commodity exchange registered with the CFTC. Currently, the only Bitcoin Futures and Ether Futures contracts in which the Underlying ETFs will invest are traded on the CME.

The Fund and the Underlying ETFs may invest in standard Bitcoin and/or Ether Futures and in micro Ether Futures (collectively referred to herein as Bitcoin Futures or Ether Futures, as applicable). These futures contracts are agreements between two parties that are executed on a commodity futures exchange, and that are cleared and margined through a clearing house. These future contracts are cash-settled, which means that one party agrees to buy a fixed quantity of the underlying asset from another party at a future point in time at a price agreed at the initiation of the contract, but instead of taking physical delivery of the underlying asset at the later date, settlement occurs using cash. The contractual obligations of a buyer or seller of these futures contracts are generally satisfied by cash settlement at the end of the contract period or by making an offsetting sale or purchase of an identical futures contract before the designated date of delivery.

The Fund expects to gain Crypto Asset Futures Exposure by investing in the Underlying ETFs. Each Underlying ETF has a wholly-owned subsidiary of each Underlying ETF, organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands and for which Empowered Funds, LLC dba EA Advisers (the Adviser) serves as investment adviser, the Sub-Adviser serves as sub-adviser and ARK serves as sub-subadviser. Investing more than 25% of the Funds or each Underlying ETFs assets in the subsidiary could have adverse tax consequences for the Fund or the Underlying ETFs, respectively. See the section entitled Taxation in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI) for more information. There can be no assurance that the Fund or each Underlying ETF will be able to achieve or maintain its target bitcoin or ether exposure. References to investments by the Underlying ETFs should be read to mean investments by either the Underlying ETFs or the applicable subsidiaries.

Neither the Fund nor the Underlying ETFs invest directly in ether, bitcoin, or other digital assets, or maintain direct exposure to spot ether or bitcoin. Investors seeking direct exposure to the price of ether or bitcoin should consider an investment other than the Fund.

C000246486 Holdings

Top 3 holdings of ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000246486 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000246486 Performance

Total returns for C000246486 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000246486 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000246486, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 73.4%

C000246486 Costs and Fees

C000246486 costs about $100 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.00%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.00%
• Portfolio turnover: 64%
• Brokerage commissions: 7.51 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000246486 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2024-12, ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF had net outflows of $408.12K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000246486 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000246486 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-01-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-11-07
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-02-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-11-20
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-08-29
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-12-13

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.