Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001999371-25-003118
Chunk: 49

Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: POS AM
Chunk 49
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 trading positions in futures contracts are typically required to be secured by the deposit of margin funds that represent only a small percentage of a futures contract’s entire market value. This feature creates the potential for commodity pools to “leverage” their assets by purchasing or selling futures contracts with an aggregate notional amount in excess of the commodity pool’s assets. While futures contracts are generally subject to leverage risk, NYSE Arca rule under which the Fund’s Shares will be listed and traded prevents the Fund from utilizing leverage.

Pricing anomalies in bitcoin and in the bitcoin futures market could cause losses.

Market fraud and/or manipulation and other fraudulent trading practices such as the intentional dissemination of false or misleading information (e.g., false rumors) can, among other things, lead to a disruption of the orderly functioning of markets, significant market volatility, and cause the value of bitcoin futures to fluctuate quickly and without warning. Depending on the timing of an investor’s purchases and sales of the Fund’s Shares, these pricing anomalies could cause the investor to incur losses.

Risks of government regulation.

The FINRA issued a notice on March 8, 2022 seeking comment on measures that could prevent or restrict investors from buying a broad range of public securities and products designated as “complex products” – which could include each Exchange Traded Product offered by the Sponsor. The ultimate impact, if any, of these measures remain unclear. However, if regulations are adopted, they could, among other things, prevent or restrict investors’ ability to buy the Fund.

Correlation Risk

Changes in the Fund’s NAV may not correlate well with changes in the price of the Benchmark and the spot price of bitcoin. If this were to occur, you may not be able to effectively use the Fund as a way to hedge against bitcoin related losses or as a way to indirectly invest in bitcoin.

The Sponsor endeavors to invest the Fund’s assets as fully as possible in bitcoin and Bitcoin Futures Contracts so that the changes in the NAV closely correlate with the changes in the Benchmark. However, changes in the Fund’s NAV may not correlate with the changes in the Benchmark for various reasons, including those set forth below.

The Fund incurs certain expenses in connection with its operations and holds most of its assets in income producing, short-term financial instruments for margin and other liquidity purposes and to meet redemptions that may be necessary on an ongoing basis. To the extent these expenses are not covered by the Management Fee, and income from short-term financial instruments may cause imperfect correlation between changes in the Fund’s NAV and changes in the