Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001387131-25-000058
Chunk: 53

Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 53
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 and other potential financial vehicles, possibly including securities backed by or linked to bitcoin and digital asset financial vehicles similar to the Fund. In addition, to the extent digital asset financial vehicles other than the Fund tracking the price of bitcoin are formed and represent a significant proportion of the demand for bitcoin, large purchases or redemptions of the securities of these digital asset financial vehicles, or private funds holding bitcoin, could negatively affect the Index and the portion of the Shares’ value that is tied to bitcoin.

Risks Related to the Custody of Bitcoin

Failure to safeguard and manage our digital assets could adversely impact the Fund’s business, operating results, and financial condition.

The Fund’s success and the success of its offerings requires significant public confidence in the Fund’s and its partners’ abilities to properly manage customers’ balances and handle large and growing transaction volumes and amounts of customer assets. In addition, the Fund is dependent on its partners’ operations, liquidity, and financial condition for the proper maintenance, use, and safekeeping of these customer assets. Any failure by the Fund or its partners to maintain the necessary controls or to manage customer digital assets and funds appropriately and in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements could result in reputational harm, significant financial losses, lead customers to discontinue or reduce their use of the Fund’s and its partners’ products, and result in significant penalties and fines and additional restrictions, which could adversely impact the Fund’s business, operating results, and financial condition.

The Bitcoin Custodian is responsible for the proper deposit, transfer, and custody of digital assets in multiple jurisdictions. The Bitcoin Custodian is required to safeguard customers’ assets using bank-level security standards. The Fund’s security technology is designed to prevent, detect, and mitigate inappropriate access to its systems, by internal or external threats. The Fund believes the Bitcoin Custodian has developed and maintained administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to comply with applicable legal requirements and industry standards. However, it is nevertheless possible that hackers, employees or service providers acting contrary to the Bitcoin Custodian’s policies, or others could circumvent these safeguards to improperly access the Fund’s systems or documents, or the systems or documents of its business partners, agents, or service providers, and improperly access, obtain, misuse digital assets and funds. The methods used to obtain unauthorized access, disable, or degrade service or sabotage systems are also constantly changing and evolving and may be difficult to anticipate or detect for long periods of time. Any security incident resulting in a compromise of customer assets could result in substantial costs to the Fund and require the Fund