Company: HBAR
Filing Date: 2025-09-09
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0000950170-25-113803
Chunk: 34

Company: Grayscale Hedera Trust ETF
Filing Date: 2025-09-09
Form: S-1
Chunk 34
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2009. HBAR launched in 2018 and its development is ongoing. In general, digital asset networks, including the Hedera Network and related protocols represent a new and rapidly evolving industry that is subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to evaluate. For example, the realization of one or more of the following risks could materially adversely affect the value of the Shares:

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HBAR is only selectively accepted as a means of payment by retail and commercial outlets, and use of HBAR by consumers remains limited. Banks and other established financial institutions, whether voluntarily or in response to regulatory feedback, may refuse to process funds for HBAR transactions; process wire transfers to or from Digital Asset Trading Platforms, HBAR-related companies or service providers; or maintain accounts for persons or entities transacting in HBAR. As a result, the prices of HBAR are largely determined by speculators and validators, thus contributing to price volatility that makes retailers less likely to accept HBAR in the future.

Banks may not provide banking services, or may cut off banking services, to businesses that provide digital asset-related services or that accept digital assets as payment, which could dampen liquidity in the market and damage the public perception of digital assets generally or any one digital asset in particular, such as HBAR, and their or its utility as a payment system, which could decrease the price of digital assets generally or individually.

The prices of digital assets may be determined on a relatively small number of Digital Asset Trading Platforms by a relatively small number of market participants, many of whom are speculators or those intimately involved with the issuance of such digital assets, such as validators or developers, which could contribute to price volatility that makes retailers less likely to accept digital assets in the future.

Certain privacy-preserving features have been or are expected to be introduced to a number of digital asset networks. If any such features are introduced to the Hedera Network, any trading platforms or businesses that facilitate transactions in HBAR may be at an increased risk of criminal or civil lawsuits, or of having banking services cut off if there is a concern that these features interfere with the performance of anti-money laundering duties and economic sanctions checks.

Users, developers and validators may switch to or adopt certain digital asset networks or protocols at the expense of their engagement with other digital asset networks and protocols, which may negatively impact those networks and protocols, including the Hedera Network.

The Trust is not actively managed and will not have any formal strategy relating to the development of the Hedera Network

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