Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001999371-25-011381
Chunk: 13

Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 13
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odian”)
on behalf of the Fund. The Bitcoin Custodian will keep custody of all of the Fund’s bitcoin in a multi-layer, multi-party
cold storage or similarly secure technology. The Bitcoin Custodian is responsible for safekeeping passwords, keys or phrases that
allow transfers of digital assets (“Security Factors”) safe, secure and confidential. 100% of the private keys will
be held in cold storage. The Bitcoin Custodian will establish the Bitcoin Accounts on the Bitcoin Network solely for the Fund.
The Bitcoin Custodian will follow valid instructions given by the Sponsor to use the Fund’s Security Factors to effect transfers
to and from the Bitcoin Accounts. The Fund’s bitcoin will be held in segregated wallets and will not be commingled with
the assets of other customers. The Bitcoin Custodian has an insurance policy that covers, at least partially, risks such as the
loss of client assets held in cold storage, including from employee collusion or fraud, physical loss including theft, damage
of key material, security breach or hack, and fraudulent transfer.

Marketing
Agent

The
Fund employs Foreside Fund Services, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foreside Financial Group, LLC (d/b/a ACA Group) as the
marketing agent for the Fund (the “Marketing Agent”). The Marketing Agent Agreement among the Marketing Agent and
the Trust calls for the Marketing Agent to work with the Custodian in connection with the receipt and processing of orders for
Creation Baskets and Redemption Baskets and the review and approval of all Fund sales literature and advertising material. The
Marketing Agent’s principal business address is Three Canal Plaza, Suite 100, Portland, Maine 04101. The Marketing Agent
is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA.

Support
Agent

The
Administrator also assists the Fund and the Sponsor with certain functions and duties relating to administration and marketing,
which include the following: marketing and sales strategy and marketing related services.

Digital
Asset Adviser

Hashdex
Asset Management Ltd. (“Hashdex” or the “Digital Asset Adviser”) is a Cayman Islands investment manager
(and an exempt reporting advisor under SEC rules) that specializes in, among other things, the management, research, investment
analysis and other investment support services of funds and ETFs with investment strategies involving bitcoin and other crypto
assets. As Digital Asset Adviser, Hashdex is responsible for providing the Sponsor and the Administrator with research and analysis
regarding bitcoin and bitcoin markets for use in the operation