Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001999371-25-003249
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Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 424B3
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3-1.htm. The Fund was formed and is managed and controlled by the Sponsor, a limited liability company formed in Delaware on March 14, 2012. The Sponsor is registered as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and is a member of the National Futures Association (“NFA”). The Fund intends to be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

The Benchmark Methodology

The Benchmark is governed by the Nasdaq Crypto Index Oversight Committee (“CIOC”), which is responsible for implementation, administration, and oversight of the Benchmark, including its cessation. The CIOC shall approve any material changes to the methodology and review the Benchmark methodology at least on an annual basis. The final Benchmark is calculated once every trading day and it is given by a weighted average across the settlement prices of the following “Core Exchanges” (as of January 31, 2025): Bitstamp, Coinbase, Gemini, itBit, Kraken and LMAX Digital.

The Benchmark was launched by Nasdaq on June 9, 2021 and is designed to track the price performance of bitcoin. Specifically, the Benchmark attempts to track the average bitcoin spot price by capturing the notional value of bitcoin USD transactions reported by selected public data sources as measured by Nasdaq, Inc (“Nasdaq”). The Benchmark applies a rules-based pricing methodology to a diverse collection of pricing sources to provide a reference price for bitcoin and the pricing methodology is designed to account for variances in price across a wide range of sources which have been vetted according to criteria identified in the methodology document. The Benchmark is owned and administered by Nasdaq and may be changed from time to time. Detailed rules on the Benchmark administration and governance may be found at Nasdaq’s website. The Benchmark does not track the overall performance of all digital assets generally, nor the performance of any specific digital asset other than bitcoin. The Benchmark is calculated and published once a day on business days at 3pm, New York Time by CF Benchmarks Limited ( https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/data/indices/NQBTCS) or other Nasdaq designated calculation agent.

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According to the Benchmark methodology, any deviations from the Benchmark methodology are made in the sole judgment and discretion of Nasdaq so that the Benchmark continues to achieve its objective. Nasdaq will provide transparency over the decisions affecting the compilation of the reference rate and any related determination process, including contingency measures in the event of absence of