Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001999371-25-003118
Chunk: 21

Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: POS AM
Chunk 21
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aders B.V., JSCT, LLC, XBTO International Ltd., DV Chain, LLC, GSR Markets Ltd. B2C2 USA, Inc. and Nonco LLC have been approved as LPs. Jane Street Capital, LLC, one of the Authorized Purchasers, is an affiliate of JSCT, LLC, one of the LPs. Current or future LPs may be affiliates or, or have material relationships with, the Fund’s current or future Authorized Purchasers.

The Fund and the LP will simultaneously exchange a futures position for a corresponding, economically offsetting position in physical bitcoin. Specifically, when the Sponsor intends to increase the Fund’s bitcoin holdings, the Fund will participate in an EFP transaction to sell futures contracts and buy physical bitcoin, while the LP participating in such transaction will buy futures contracts and sell physical bitcoin. Similarly, when the Sponsor seeks to decrease the Fund’s bitcoin holdings, the Fund will participate in an EFP transaction to buy futures contracts and sell physical bitcoin, while the LP on the other side of the transaction will sell futures contracts and buy physical bitcoin.

In order to ensure best execution and ensure that transactions are executed at commercially reasonable prices when the Fund needs to purchase or sell spot bitcoin, the Sponsor will conduct a Request-for-Quote (“RFQ”) auction with multiple LPs using the current day settlement price as the reference for the Futures Contracts. The Sponsor may use electronic means such as the Directed Request for Quote (DRFQ) available in the CME Direct, chat services or any other communication mechanism that is compatible with CME’s and CFTC guidance around recordkeeping of EFP transactions. The LPs will present their quotes in terms of basis points (1 bps = 0.01%) difference between the current day’s settlement price of the futures contract and bitcoin. The Fund will then confirm the trade with the LP that offered the best quote. After the CME publishes the daily settlement price of the relevant Bitcoin Futures Contract, the Sponsor and the selected LP calculate and confirm the price of the futures leg of the transaction as being the published settlement price and the price of physical bitcoin leg of the transaction by applying the agreed upon basis spread and submit the transaction to one of its FCMs that subsequently reports the transaction to the CME.

After the EFP Transaction is confirmed by the CME, the futures leg of the transaction is cleared by CME Clearing, while the physical leg is settled bilaterally with the LP depositing in the Fund’s Wallet with the Bitcoin Custodian the