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## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### 2x Ether ETF (Series ID: S000082325)

| Class ID   | Class Name   | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000245626 | 2x Ether ETF | ETHU            |

Rule 497(k)

File No. 333-263619

 **Summary Prospectus**<br> **2x Ether ETF**<br> **Trading Symbol: ETHU**<br> **CBOE BZX Exchange, Inc.**<br> **June 30, 2025**<br> **www.volatilityshares.com**<br>

Before you invest, you may want to review the **2x Ether ETF** (the "Fund") statutory prospectus and statement of additional information, which contain more information about the Fund and its risks. The current statutory prospectus and statement of additional information dated June 30, 2025 are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. You can find the Fund's statutory prospectus, statement of additional information, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund online at www.volatilityshares.com/ethu. You can also get this information at no cost by calling at (866) 261-0273 or by sending an email request to contact@volatilityshares.com.

#### Important Information About the Fund
2x Ether ETF (the "Fund") seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to two times (2x) the return of the price of ether **for a single day**, not for any other period. A "single day" is measured from the time the Fund calculates its net asset value ("NAV") to the time of the Fund's next NAV calculation. **The return of the Fund for periods longer than a single day will be the result of its return for each day compounded over the period. The Fund's returns for periods longer than a single day will very likely differ in amount, and possibly even direction, from the Fund's stated multiple (2x) times the return of ether for the same period. For periods longer than a single day, the Fund will lose money if ether's performance is flat, and it is possible that the Fund will lose money even if the price of ether increases**. Longer holding periods, higher ether volatility, and greater leveraged exposure each exacerbate the impact of compounding on an investor's returns. During periods of higher ether volatility, the volatility of ether may affect the Fund's return as much as or more than the return of the price of ether.

While the Fund has a daily investment objective, you may hold shares of the Fund ("Shares") for longer than one day if you believe doing so is consistent with your goals and risk tolerance. **If you hold Shares for any period other than a day, it is important for you to understand that over your holding period:**

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Your return may be higher or lower than that sought in the investment objective, and this difference may be significant.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Factors that contribute to returns that are worse than the return sought in the investment objective include smaller Index gains or losses and higher Index volatility, as well as longer holding periods when these factors apply.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Factors that contribute to returns that are better than the return sought in the investment objective include larger Index gains or losses and lower Index volatility, as well as longer holding periods when these factors apply.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• The more extreme these factors are, and the more they occur together, the more your return will tend to deviate from the return sought in the investment objective.

The Fund expects to gain 2x exposure to ether by investing a portion of its assets in a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the "Subsidiary"). In order to qualify as a regulated investment company ("RIC") for purposes of federal income tax treatment under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code"), the Fund will have to reduce its exposure to its Subsidiary on or around the end of each of the Fund's fiscal quarter ends. The Fund expects to reduce its exposure to its Subsidiary during these periods by investing in certain other investments as described below. During these periods, the Fund may not achieve its investment objective, and may return substantially less than two times (2x) the daily performance of ether.

#### Investment Objective
The Fund seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to two times (2x) the daily performance of ether.

#### Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell Shares. **Investors may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example set forth below.**

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| | |
|:---|:---|
|  **Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)** | **Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp; Management Fees | 1.85% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp; Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees | 0.00% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp; Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses | 0.02% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp; Other Expenses | 0.80% |
| &nbsp;&nbsp; **Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses** | 2.67% |

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#### Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. This example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain at current levels. This example does not include the brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares.

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
|  **1 Year** | **3 Years** | **5 Years** | **10 Years** |
| $270 | $829 | $1415 | $3003 |

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#### Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. For the fiscal period ended February 28, 2025, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 0%.

#### Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund is an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing its assets principally in cash-settled ether futures contracts that trade only on an exchange registered with the CFTC, which currently is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ("CME") ("Ether Futures Contracts"), and cash, cash-like instruments or high-quality securities that serve as collateral to the Fund's investments in Ether Futures Contracts ("Collateral Investments"). **The Fund does not invest directly in ether.** Instead, the Fund seeks to benefit from increases in the price of Ether Futures Contracts in its pursuit of seeking to produce 2x the performance of ether.

The Fund also may invest in: reverse repurchase agreement transactions; shares of other investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act") that invest in similar securities and assets to those in which the Fund may invest. ("Other Investment Companies"); exchange traded options on Other Investment Companies; and swap agreement transactions that reference Other Investment Companies, ether, Ether Futures Contracts, or ether-related indexes (together with Ether Futures Contracts, "Ether-Linked Investments").

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its assets in Ether-Linked Investments. The Fund expects to gain 2x exposure to the performance of ether by investing a portion of its assets in a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the "Subsidiary"). The investment adviser to the Fund and the Subsidiary is Volatility Shares LLC (the "Adviser"). The Adviser oversees the Fund and implements the day-to-day portfolio management responsibilities for the Fund. In serving as Adviser to the Fund, the Adviser does not conduct conventional investment research or analysis or forecast market movement or trends.

The Fund is classified as a "non-diversified company" under the 1940 Act.

**The Fund invests in Ether Futures Contracts and not in ether directly. Ether Futures Contracts are relatively new investments. They are subject to unique and substantial risks, and historically, have been subject to significant price volatility. The value of an investment in the Fund could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. You may lose the full value of your investment within a single day. If you are not prepared to accept significant and unexpected changes in the value of the Fund and the possibility that you could lose your entire investment in the Fund you should not invest in the Fund.**

**The value of an investment in the Fund could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. You should be prepared to lose your entire investment. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.**

#### Ether Futures Contracts

#### The Fund will not invest directly in ether.
Ether is a digital asset that is created and transmitted through the operations of the peer-to-peer "Ethereum Network," a decentralized network of computers that operates on cryptographic protocols. No single entity owns or operates the Ethereum Network, the infrastructure of which is collectively maintained by a decentralized user base. The Ethereum Network allows people to exchange tokens of value, called ether, which are recorded on a public transaction ledger known as a blockchain. Ether can be used to pay for goods and services, including computational power on the Ethereum Network, or it can be converted to fiat currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, at rates determined on digital asset exchanges or in individual end-user-to-end-user transactions under a barter system. Furthermore, the Ethereum Network also allows users to write and implement smart contracts — that is, general-purpose code that executes on every computer in the network and can instruct the transmission of information and value based on a sophisticated set of logical conditions. Using smart contracts, users can create markets, store registries of debts or promises, represent the ownership of property, move funds in accordance with conditional instructions and create digital assets other than ether on the Ethereum Network. Smart contract operations are executed on the Ethereum Blockchain in exchange for payment of ether. The Ethereum Network is one of a number of projects intended to expand blockchain use beyond just a peer-to-peer money system.

In order to obtain 2x exposure to the performance of ether, the Fund intends to typically enter into cash-settled Ether Futures Contracts as the "buyer." In simplest terms, in a cash-settled futures market the counterparty pays cash to the buyer if the price of a futures contract goes up, and buyer pays cash to the counterparty if the price of the futures contract goes down. In order to maintain its 2x exposure to the performance of ether, the Fund intends to exit its futures contracts as they near expiration and replace them with new futures contracts with a later expiration date. Futures contracts with a longer term to expiration may be priced higher than futures contracts with a shorter term to expiration, a relationship called "contango". When rolling futures contracts that are in contango the Fund will close its long position by selling the shorter term contract at a relatively lower price and buying a longer-dated contract at a relatively higher price. The presence of contango will adversely affect the performance of the Fund, and Ether Futures Contracts have historically been in contango. Conversely, futures contracts with a longer term to expiration may be priced lower than futures contracts with a shorter term to expiration, a relationship called "backwardation". When rolling long futures contracts that are in backwardation, the Fund will close its long position by selling the shorter term contract at a relatively higher price and buying a longer-dated contract at a relatively lower price. The presence of backwardation may positively affect the performance of the Fund.

The Fund invests in Ether Futures Contracts indirectly via the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary and the Fund will have the same investment adviser and investment objective. The Subsidiary will also follow the same general investment policies and restrictions as the Fund. Except as noted herein, for purposes of this Prospectus, references to the Fund's investment strategies and risks include those of the Subsidiary. The Fund complies with the provisions of the 1940 Act governing investment policies and capital structure and leverage on an aggregate basis with the Subsidiary. Furthermore, the Adviser, as the investment adviser to the Subsidiary, complies with the provisions of the 1940 Act relating to investment advisory contracts as it relates to its advisory agreement with the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary also complies with the provisions of the 1940 Act relating to affiliated transactions and custody. Because the Fund intends to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company ("RIC") under the Code, the size of the Fund's investment in the Subsidiary will not exceed 25% of the Fund's total assets at or around each quarter end of the Fund's fiscal year. At other times of the year, the Fund's investments in the Subsidiary will significantly exceed 25% of the Fund's total assets. The Subsidiary's custodian is U.S. Bank, N.A.

If circumstances occur where market prices for Ether Futures Contracts were not readily available, the Fund would fair value its Ether Futures Contracts in accordance with its pricing and valuation policy and procedures for fair value determinations. Pursuant to those policies and procedures, the Adviser would consider various factors, such as pricing history; market levels prior to price limits or halts; supply, demand, and open interest in Ether Futures Contracts; and comparison to other major digital asset futures, such as bitcoin; and ether prices in the spot market. The Sponsor would document its proposed pricing and methodology, detailing the factors that entered into the valuation.

#### Ether
Ether is a digital asset. The ownership and behavior of ether is determined by participants in online, peer-to-peer networks that connect computers that run publicly accessible, or "open source," software that follows the rules and procedures governing the Ethereum Network. The Ethereum Network is a peer-to-peer payment network that operates on a cryptographic protocol, commonly referred to as the "Ethereum Protocol." The value of ether is not backed by any government, corporation or other identified body. Its value is determined, in part, by the supply and demand in markets created to facilitate the trading of ether. Ownership and the ability to transfer or take other actions with respect to ether is protected through public-key cryptography. Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is an encryption scheme that uses two mathematically related, but not identical, keys — a public key and a private key. Unlike symmetric key algorithms that rely on one key to both encrypt and decrypt, each key performs a unique function. The public key is used to encrypt and the private key is used to decrypt.

<u>Initial Distribution</u>: 60.0 million ether, or 83.33% of the supply, was sold to the public in a crowd sale conducted between July and August 2014 that raised approximately $18 million which was used to fund the development of the Ethereum Network.

<u>Ethereum Foundation</u>: 6.0 million ether, or 8.33% of the supply, was distributed to the Ethereum Foundation for operational costs.

<u>Ethereum Developers</u>: 3.0 million ether, or 4.17% of the supply, was distributed to developers who contributed to the Ethereum Network.

<u>Developer Purchase Program</u>: 3.0 million ether, or 4.17% of the supply, was distributed to members of the Ethereum Foundation to purchase at the initial crowd sale price.

Following the launch of the Ethereum Network, ether supply initially increased through a progressive mining process. Following the introduction of EIP-1559, described below, ether supply and issuance rate varies based on factors such as recent use of the network. Coinciding with the network launch, it was decided that EthSuisse would be dissolved, designating the Ethereum Foundation as the sole organization dedicated to protocol development. Historically and continuing through the present, the development of the source code of the Ethereum Protocol has been overseen by the Ethereum Foundation and the core developers. The core developers evolve over time, largely based on self-determined participation. The Ethereum Network is decentralized in that it does not require governmental authorities or financial institution intermediaries to create, transmit or determine the value of ether. Rather, following the initial distribution of ether, ether is created, burned and allocated by the Ethereum Network protocol through a process that is currently subject to an issuance and burn rate. Among other things, ether is used to pay for transaction fees and computational services (i.e., smart contracts) on the Ethereum Network; users of the Ethereum Network pay for the computational power of the machines executing the requested operations with ether. Requiring payment in ether on the Ethereum Network incentivizes developers to write quality applications and increases the efficiency of the Ethereum Network because wasteful code costs more. It also ensures that the Ethereum Network remains economically viable by compensating people for their contributed computational resources.

Ether may be regarded as a currency or digital commodity depending on its specific use in particular transactions. Ether may be used as a medium of exchange or unit of account. Although a number of large and small retailers accept ether as a form of payment in the United States and foreign markets, there is relatively limited use of ether for commercial and retail payments. Similarly, ether may be used as a store of value (i.e., an asset that maintains its value rather than depreciating), although it has experienced significant periods of price volatility.

The value of ether is determined by the value that various market participants place on ether through their transactions. Price discovery occurs through secondary market trading on ether trading platforms, over-the-counter trading desks and direct peer-to-peer payments. Many digital asset trading platforms are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Digital asset trading platforms and over-the-counter trading

desks have a relatively limited history, limited liquidity and trading across trading platforms order books which has resulted in periods of high volatility and price divergence among trading platforms. In addition, during high volatility periods, in addition to price divergences, some ether trading platforms have experienced issues related to account access and trade execution.

#### Collateral Investments
The Fund will invest assets in Collateral Investments. The Collateral Investments may consist of high-quality securities, which include: (1) U.S. Government securities, such as bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury; (2) investment companies registered under the 1940 Act that invest in high-quality securities; and/or (3) corporate debt securities, such as commercial paper and other short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by businesses that are rated investment grade or determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. For these purposes, "investment grade" is defined as investments with a rating at the time of purchase in one of the four highest categories of at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (e.g., BBB- or higher from S&P Global Ratings or Baa3 or higher from Moody's Investors Service, Inc.).

The Collateral Investments are designed to provide liquidity, serve as margin, or otherwise collateralize the Subsidiary's investments in Ether Futures Contracts. The Fund expects that it will primarily invest its assets, and that the Subsidiary will primarily invest its assets, in Collateral Investments that are "securities," as such term is defined under the 1940 Act.

#### Other Investments
In order to help the Fund meet its investment objective by maintaining the desired level of leveraged exposure to ether, maintain its tax status as a regulated investment company on days in and around quarter-end, help the Fund maintain its desired exposure to Ether Futures Contracts when it is approaching or has exceeded position limits or accountability levels, or because of liquidity or other constraints, the Fund may invest in the following:

<u><u>Reverse Repurchase Agreements</u></u>

Reverse repurchase agreements are a form of borrowing in which the Fund sells portfolio securities to financial institutions and agrees to repurchase them at a mutually agreed upon date and price that is higher than the original sale price, and use the proceeds for investment purchases.

As a result of the Fund repurchasing the securities at a higher price, the Fund will lose money by engaging in reverse repurchase agreement transactions.

As noted above, because the Fund intends to qualify for treatment as a RIC under the Code, the size of the Fund's investment in the Subsidiary will not exceed 25% of the Fund's total assets at or around each quarter end of the Fund's fiscal year (the "Asset Diversification Test"). At other times of the year, the Fund's investments in the Subsidiary will significantly exceed 25% of the Fund's total (or gross) assets.

When the Fund seeks to reduce its total assets exposure to the Subsidiary, it may use the short-term Treasury Bills it owns (and purchase additional Treasury Bills as needed) to transact in reverse repurchase agreement transactions, which are ostensibly loans to the Fund. Those loans will increase the gross assets of the Fund, which the Adviser expects will allow the Fund to meet the Asset Diversification Test. When the Fund enters into a reverse repurchase agreement, it will either (i) be consistent with Section 18 of the 1940 Act and maintain asset coverage of at least 300% of the value of the reverse repurchase agreement; or (ii) treat the reverse repurchase agreement transactions as derivative transactions for purposes of Rule 18f-4 under the 1940 Act ("Rule 18f-4"), including as applicable, the value-at-risk based limit on leverage risk.

<u><u>Other Investment Companies</u></u>

The Fund may invest in shares of Other Investment Companies, that is, shares of investment companies registered under the 1940 Act that invest in similar securities and assets to those in which the Fund may invest.

<u><u>Options on Other Investment Companies</u></u>

The Fund may invest in options on Other Investment Companies, which are funds registered under the 1940 Act including exchange-traded funds, that invest in similar securities and assets to those in which the Fund may invest. An option is a contract that gives the purchaser of the option, in return for the premium paid, the right to buy shares of an investment company, from the writer of the option (in the case of a call option), or to sell shares of the investment company to the writer of the option (in the case of a put option) at a designated price during the term of the option. The premium paid by the buyer of an option

will reflect, among other things, the relationship of the exercise price to the market price and the volatility of the shares of the investment company, the remaining term of the option, supply, demand, interest rates and/or currency exchange rates. The Other Investment Companies that serve as the reference asset for the option contracts utilized by the Fund will be RICs for tax purposes. The Fund may utilize "American" style options or "European" style options. American style options are exercisable on any date prior to the expiration date of the option contract. In contrast, European style options are exercisable only on the expiration date of the option contract.

<u><u>Ether-Linked</u> <u>ETPs</u></u>

Ether-Linked ETPs are exchange-traded investment products that are not registered under the 1940 Act that derive their value from a basket of spot ether, and trade intra day on a national securities exchange. Ether-Linked ETPs are passively managed and do not pursue active management investment strategies, and their sponsors do not actively manage the ether held by the ETP. This means that the sponsor of the ETP does not sell ether at times when its price is high or acquire ether at low prices in the expectation of future price increases. Ether-Linked ETPs typically invest in ether. Because these products are not registered under the 1940 Act, shareholders in such funds are not afforded the protections provided by the 1940 Act, including, for example, requirements regarding the safekeeping and proper valuation of fund assets, restrictions on transactions with affiliates, limits on leverage, and certain other governance requirements.

<u><u>Swaps that reference Other Investment Companies, Ether, Ether Futures Contracts, or</u> <u>Ether-related</u> <u>indexes.</u></u>

The Fund may invest in cash settled swap agreements referencing Other Investment Companies, ether, Ether-Linked ETPs, Ether Futures Contracts or ether-related indexes. Swap contracts are transactions entered into primarily with major global financial institutions for a specified period ranging from a day to more than one year. In a swap transaction, the Fund and a counterparty will agree to exchange or "swap" payments based on the change in value of an underlying asset or benchmark. For example, the two parties may agree to exchange the return (or differentials in rates of returns) earned or realized on a particular investment or instrument. In the case of the Fund, the reference asset can be shares of Other Investment Companies, ether, Ether Futures Contracts, or ether-related indexes.

#### Principal Risks
**Daily rebalancing and the compounding of returns over time means that the returns of the Fund for a period longer than a single day will be the result of each day's returns compounded over the period. This will very likely differ in amount, and possibly even direction, from twice the return of ether for the same period. The Fund will lose money if ether's performance is flat over time. The Fund can lose money regardless of the performance of ether, as a result of daily rebalancing of the Ether Futures Contract, Ether's volatility, compounding of each day's return and other factors.**

As with all investments, there are certain risks of investing in the Fund. Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund does not represent a complete investment program. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and it is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency, the Adviser or any of their affiliates. You should consider carefully the following risks before investing in the Fund. As a leveraged ETF, the unique and substantial risks associated with ether and Ether Futures Contracts, and the historic price volatility of Ether Futures Contracts, are exacerbated.

**Ether and ether futures are relatively new investments. They are subject to unique and substantial risks, and may be subject to significant price volatility. The value of an investment in the Fund could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. You may lose the full value of your investment within a single day. If you are not prepared to accept significant and unexpected changes in the value of the Fund and the possibility that you could lose your entire investment in the Fund you should not invest in the Fund.**

**The value of an investment in the Fund could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. You should be prepared to lose your entire investment. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.**

Each risk noted below is considered a principal risk of investing in the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears. The significance of each risk factor below may change over time and you should review each risk factor carefully.

**Aggressive Investment Risk.** Ether Futures Contracts are relatively new investments, are subject to unique and substantial risks, and may be subject to significant price volatility. The value of an investment in the Fund could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. You may lose the full value of your investment within a single day. If you are not prepared to accept significant and unexpected changes in the value of the Fund and the possibility that you could lose your entire investment in the Fund you should not invest in the Fund. The value of an investment in the Fund could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. You should be prepared to lose your entire investment. Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.

**Compounding Risk.** The Fund has a single day investment objective, and the Fund's performance for any other period is the result of its return for each day compounded over the period. The performance of the Fund for periods longer than a single day will very likely differ in amount, and possibly even direction, from twice (2x) of the daily return of the price of ether for the same period, before accounting for fees and expenses. Compounding affects all investments, but has a more significant impact on a leveraged fund. This effect becomes more pronounced as ether volatility and holding periods increase.

**Leveraged Correlation Risk.** A number of factors may affect the Fund's ability to achieve a high degree of leveraged (2x) correlation with the price of ether, and there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation. Failure to achieve a high degree of correlation may prevent the Fund from achieving its daily investment objective, and the percentage change of the Fund's NAV each day may differ, perhaps significantly in amount, and possibly even direction, from twice the returns of ether on a given day.

A number of other factors may adversely affect the Fund's sought after 2x correlation with ether, including fees, expenses, transaction costs, financing costs associated with the use of derivatives, income items, valuation methodology, accounting standards and disruptions or illiquidity in the markets for Ether Futures Contracts in which the Fund invests. The Fund may take or refrain from taking positions in order to improve tax efficiency, comply with regulatory restrictions, or for other reasons, each of which may negatively affect the Fund's correlation with daily changes ether. The Fund may also be subject to large movements of assets into and out of the Fund, potentially resulting in the Fund being under- or over-exposed to ether. Any of these factors could decrease correlation between the performance of the Fund and ether and may hinder the Fund's ability to meet its daily investment objective.

**Target Exposure and Rebalancing Risks.** The Fund normally will seek to maintain notional exposure to ether at 200%. However, in order to comply with certain tax qualification tests at the end of each tax quarter, the Fund may reduce its exposure to Ether Futures Contracts on or about such date. If the value of Ether Futures Contracts rises during such periods when the Fund has reduced its futures exposure to Ether Futures Contracts, without gaining a similar increased exposure through Other Investments, the performance of the Fund may be less than it would have been had the Fund maintained its exposure through such period.

In addition, significant and unpredictable increases in Ether Futures Contracts margin rates relative to prevailing futures prices could result in the Fund not achieving its target 2x exposure and as such would cause the Fund to experience greater risk of failing to meet its target exposure of two times (2x) the daily performance of ether, before fees and expenses.

**Rebalancing Risk.** If for any reason the Fund is unable to rebalance all or a portion of its portfolio, or if all or a portion of the portfolio is rebalanced incorrectly, the Fund's investment exposure may not be consistent with the Fund's daily investment objective. In these instances, the Fund may not successfully track the performance of ether and may not achieve its investment objective. Additionally, the rebalancing of futures contracts may impact the trading in such futures contracts and may adversely affect the value of the Fund. For example, such trading may cause the Fund's futures commission merchants ("FCMs") to adjust their hedges. The trading activity associated with such transactions will contribute to the existing trading volume on the underlying futures contracts and may adversely affect the market price of such underlying futures contracts.

#### Ether -Related Risk.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Ether Risk*. Ether is a relatively new innovation and the market for ether is subject to rapid price swings, changes and uncertainty. The further development of the Ethereum Network and the acceptance and use of ether are subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to evaluate. The slowing, stopping or reversing of the development of the Ethereum Network or the acceptance of ether may adversely affect the price of ether. Ether is subject to the risk of fraud, theft, manipulation or security failures, operational or other problems that impact ether trading venues. Additionally, ether and Ether Futures Contracts present unique and substantial risks, and historically have been subject to significant price volatility. The value of ether has been, and may continue to be, substantially dependent on speculation, such that trading and investing in these digital assets generally may not be based on fundamental analysis.

Governance of decentralized networks, such as the Ethereum Network, is achieved through voluntary consensus and open competition. In other words, while the Ethereum Foundation does serve as a driver of implementation of certain upgrades, the Ethereum Network has no central decision-making body or clear manner in which participants can come to an agreement other than through overwhelming consensus. The lack of clarity on governance may adversely affect ether's utility and ability to grow and face challenges, both of which may require solutions and directed effort to overcome problems, especially long-term problems. For example, a seemingly simple technical issue once divided the Ethereum Network community: namely, whether to increase the block size of the blockchain or implement another change to increase the scalability of ether. To the extent lack of clarity in corporate governance of the Ethereum Network leads to ineffective decision-making that slows development and growth, the value of the Shares may be adversely affected.

A significant portion of ether is held by a small number of holders sometimes referred to as "whales". These holders have the ability to manipulate the price of ether. Unlike the exchanges for more traditional assets, such as equity securities and futures contracts, spot ether and digital asset trading platforms are largely unregulated and/or may be operating out of compliance with applicable regulation, as noted below. As a result of the lack of regulation and/or that such platforms may be operating out of compliance with applicable regulation, individuals or groups may engage in fraud or market manipulation (including using social media to promote ether in a way that artificially increases the price of ether). Investors may be more exposed to the risk of theft, fraud and market manipulation than when investing in more traditional asset classes. Over the past several years, a number of digital asset trading platforms have been closed due to fraud, failure or security breaches. Investors in ether may have little or no recourse should such theft, fraud or manipulation occur and could suffer significant losses. Legal or regulatory changes may negatively impact the operation of the Ethereum Network or restrict the use of ether. The realization of any of these risks could result in a decline in the acceptance of Ethe and consequently a reduction in the value of ether, Ether Futures Contracts, and the Fund. Finally, the creation of a "fork" (as described below) or a substantial giveaway of ether (sometimes referred to as an "airdrop") may result in significant and unexpected declines in the value of ether, Ether Futures Contracts, and the Fund.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Forks*. The Ethereum Network is an open source project with no official developer or group of developers that controls it. However, the Ethereum Network's development has been overseen by the Ethereum Foundation and other core developers. The Ethereum Foundation and core developers are able to access and alter the Ethereum Network source code and, as a result, they are responsible for quasi-official releases of updates and other changes to the Ethereum Network's source code.

In 2021, the Ethereum Network implemented the EIP-1559 upgrade. EIP-1559 changed the methodology used to calculate the fees paid to miners (now validators). This new methodology splits fees into two components: a base cost and priority fee. The base cost is now removed from circulation, or "burnt", and the priority fee is paid to validators. EIP-1559 has reduced the total net issuance of ether fees to validators. The release of updates to the Ethereum Network's source code does not guarantee that the updates will be automatically adopted. Users and validators must accept any changes made to the Ethereum source code by downloading the proposed modification of the Ethereum Network's source code. A modification of the Ethereum Network's source code is only effective with respect to the Ethereum users and validators that download it. If a modification is accepted only by a percentage of users and validators, a division in the Ethereum Network will occur such that one network will run the pre-modification source code and the other network will run the modified source code. Such a division is known as a "fork." A temporary or permanent "fork" could adversely affect an investment in the Shares." Consequently, as a practical matter, a modification to the source code becomes part of the Ethereum Network only if accepted by participants collectively having a majority of the validation power on the Ethereum Network.

The Ethereum Network has a history of forks. In July 2016, the Ethereum Network experienced what is referred to as a permanent hard fork that resulted in two different versions of its blockchain: Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

In April 2016, a blockchain solutions company known as Slock.it announced the launch of a decentralized autonomous organization, known as "The DAO" on the Ethereum Network. The DAO was designed as a decentralized crowdfunding model, in which anyone could contribute ether tokens to The DAO in order to become a voting member and equity stakeholder in the organization. Members of The DAO could then make proposals about different projects to pursue and put them to a vote. By committing to profitable projects, members would be rewarded based on the terms of a smart contract and their proportional interest in The DAO. As of May 27, 2016, $150 million, or approximately 14% of all ether outstanding, was contributed to, and invested in, The DAO.

On June 17, 2016, an anonymous hacker exploited The DAO smart contract code to syphon approximately $60 million, or 3.6 million ether, into a segregated account. Upon the news of the breach, the price of ether was quickly cut in half as investors liquidated their holdings and members of the Ethereum community worked to determine a solution.

In the days that followed, several attempts were made to retrieve the stolen funds and secure the Ethereum Network. However, it soon became apparent that direct interference with the protocol (i.e., a hard fork) would be necessary. The argument for the hard fork was that it would create an entirely new version of the Ethereum Blockchain, erasing any record of the theft, and restoring the stolen funds to their original owners. The counterargument was that it would be antithetical to the core principle of immutability of the Ethereum Blockchain.

The decision over whether or not to hard fork the Ethereum Blockchain was put to a vote of Ethereum community members. A majority of votes were cast in favor of a hard fork. On July 15, 2016, a hard fork specification was implemented by the Ethereum Foundation. On July 20, 2016, the Ethereum Network completed the hard fork, and a new version of the blockchain, without recognition of the theft, was born.

Many believed that after the hard fork the original version of the Ethereum Blockchain would dissipate entirely. However, a group of miners continued to mine the original Ethereum Blockchain for philosophical and economic reasons. On July 20, 2016, the original Ethereum protocol was rebranded as Ethereum Classic, and its native token as ether classic ("ETC"), preserving the untampered transaction history (including The DAO theft). Following the hard fork of Ethereum, each holder of ether automatically received an equivalent number of ETC tokens.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *The Status of Ether as a "security"*. Ether may be determined to be a security or to be offered and sold as a security under federal or state securities laws. To the extent that ether is determined to be a "security" under the Securities Act of 1933 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and, if challenged, that view is upheld by the highest United States appellate court of competent jurisdiction, and if such final judgment prevents the Fund from meeting its investment objective, the Fund will de-list its shares from the Exchange, liquidate, and de-register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. If ether is determined to be a "security," the value of Ether Futures Contracts may decrease, which would lead to a decrease in the value of Shares.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *The Largely unregulated marketplace*. Ether and digital asset trading platforms are relatively new and, in most cases, largely unregulated and/or may be operating out of compliance with applicable regulation. As a result of this lack of regulation or lack of compliance, individuals, or groups may engage in insider trading, fraud or market manipulation with respect to ether. Such manipulation could cause investors in ether to lose money, possibly the entire value of their investments. Over the past several years, a number of digital asset trading platforms have been closed due to fraud, failure or security breaches. The nature of the assets held at digital asset trading platforms make them appealing targets for hackers and a number of such platforms have been victims of cybercrimes and other fraudulent activity. These activities have caused significant, in some cases total, losses for digital asset investors. Investors in digital assets, including ether, may have little or no recourse should such theft, fraud or manipulation occur. There is no central registry showing which individuals or entities own ether or the quantity of ether that is owned by any particular person or entity. There are no regulations in place that would prevent a large holder of ether or a group of holders from selling their ether, which could depress the price of ether, or otherwise attempting to manipulate the price of ether. Events that reduce user confidence in digital assets and digital asset platforms could have a negative impact on the price of ether and the value of an investment in the Fund.

Because digital asset adding platforms on which ether is traded, and which may serve as a pricing source for the calculation the ether reference rate that is used for the purposes of valuing the Fund's Ether Futures Contracts, are or may become subject to enforcement actions by regulatory authorities, and that such enforcement actions may have a material adverse impact on the Fund, its investments, and its ability to implement its investment strategy.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Risks Related to the Ethereum Blockchain*. The Ethereum blockchain may be vulnerable to attacks to the extent that there is concentration in the ownership and/or staking of ether. This risk increases as the level of concentration of total staked ether increases. In this regard, possession of 33% of staked ether is the minimum stake that can be used to execute an attack and that the possession of more than 50% of staked ether enables more extensive attacks, such as transaction censorship and block reordering. The value of Ether Futures Contracts in which the Fund invests may be impacted by an attack. Any such attack could have negative impacts on the spot price of ether and Ether Futures Contracts. In addition, the exposure of ether to instability in other speculative parts of the blockchain/crypto industry, such that an event that is not necessarily related to the security or utility of the Ethereum Network can nonetheless precipitate a significant decline in the price of ether or Ether Futures Contracts. For example, the collapse of TerraUSD in May 2022 and FTX Trading Ltd. in November 2022 negatively impacted the spot price of ether and Ether Futures Contracts and similar events in the future could have similarly negative impacts on the spot price of ether and Ether Futures Contracts.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Potential Changes to Blockchain Regulation*. The regulation of blockchain technology, digital assets and related products and services continues to evolve. The inconsistent and sometimes conflicting regulatory landscape may make it more difficult for blockchain-related businesses to provide services, which may impede the growth of the ether economy and have an adverse effect on consumer adoption of ether. There is a possibility of future regulatory change altering, perhaps to a material extent, the ability to buy and sell ether and Ether Futures Contracts. Similarly, future regulatory changes could impact the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective or alter the nature of an investment in the Fund or the ability of the Fund to continue to operate as planned.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Challenges to the Ethereum Network's Operations*. To perform all possible use cases and provide the best possible user experience, blockchains need the ability to process a high number of transactions per second. The Ethereum Network has limited transaction throughput, making it inadequate for many potential applications. However, demand for the Ethereum Network continues to grow. As a result of limited throughput and increasing demand, Ethereum's transaction costs have increased. High transaction costs are a barrier to using blockchains, affecting low-income users the most, and may even de-incentivize the use of these blockchains if transaction costs get high enough. For distributed ledger networks to become the efficient and financially inclusive platform that powers the global economy, they must scale.

A primary focus for developers has been designing systems that can process a higher number of transactions per second with minimum fees. So far, the most popular approaches to scaling are layer 2 solutions. A layer 2 solution is built on top of an existing layer 1, like Ethereum, and its aim is to increase the capabilities of layer 1. A layer 2 offloads computational work from layer 1 by processing transactions off-chain, increasing transaction speed and throughput. A metaphor typically used to describe layer 2 solutions is a sideroad. The sideroad can offload traffic from the main road (the layer 1 chain), to increase the number of cars travelling at the same time (increase number of transactions per second). Layer 2 solutions have peculiar qualities that make them a compelling scaling solution. For example, layer 2 solutions do not require modifying a blockchain. Instead, they use existing features of layer 1 chains, such as smart contracts, which enables scaling without compromising decentralization or security. Another distinct property of certain layer 2s is that unlike layer 1 blockchains, their fees don't necessarily increase with more transaction demand; in fact, they can even get cheaper.

Layer 2 solutions span general-purpose to application-specific solutions. Some have their own security measures, and some inherit their security from layer 1. However, in essence, they all share the same logic of processing transactions off-chain for scaling purposes.

While Layer-2 technology holds immense potential for enhancing scalability and reducing fees in the crypto world, it is not without its challenges and limitations. One of the major challenges is interoperability, as different Layer-2 solutions may not be compatible with each other, limiting their overall effectiveness. Additionally, the security of Layer-2 solutions can be a concern, as any vulnerabilities or attacks on the underlying layer could potentially impact all the connected layers.

Another limitation is the complexity of implementing Layer-2 solutions. The integration process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, requiring developers to thoroughly understand the intricacies of the technology. Moreover, maintaining consensus across multiple layers can be a challenge, as each layer may have its own governance mechanism.

Furthermore, while Layer-2 solutions significantly improve scalability, they may still face limitations in terms of transaction throughput and finality. Depending on the specific solution, there may be a trade-off between scalability and decentralization. Overall, there is the risk that, because the Ethereum Network's ability to scale and compete with blockchain that offer faster processing and lower fees is substantially dependent on layer 2 solutions, any limitations on the ability to employ layer 2 solutions to the Ethereum Network could negatively impact the price of ether, Ether Futures Contracts and the value of Shares.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Competition From the Emergence or Growth of Other Digital Assets*. As of December 31, 2024, Ether was the second largest digital asset by market capitalization, as tracked by CoinMarketCap.com. As of December 31, 2024, the alternative digital assets tracked by CoinMarketCap.com had a total market capitalization of approximately $3.3 trillion (including the approximately $401 billion market cap of Ether), as calculated using market prices and total available supply of each digital asset, excluding tokens pegged to other assets. In addition, many consortiums and financial institutions are also researching and investing resources into private or permissioned smart contracts platforms rather than open platforms like the Ethereum Network. Competition from the emergence or growth of alternative digital assets and smart contracts platforms, such as Solana, Avalanche or Cardano, could have a negative impact on the demand for, and price of, Ether and thereby adversely affect the value of the Shares.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *The Ethereum Network Could be Used to Facilitate Illicit Activities or Evade Sanctions, Which Could Negatively Affect the Price of Ether and the Value of the Shares*. Digital asset networks have in the past been, and may continue to be, used to facilitate illicit activities. If the Ethereum Network is used to facilitate illicit activities or evade sanctions, businesses that facilitate transactions in ether could be at increased risk of potential criminal or civil lawsuits, or of having banking or other services cut off, and ether could be removed from digital asset trading platforms as a result of these concerns. Other service providers of such businesses may also cut off services if there is a concern that the Ethereum Network is being used to facilitate crime. Any of the aforementioned occurrences could increase regulatory scrutiny of the Ethereum Network and/or adversely affect the price of ether, the attractiveness of the Ethereum Network and an investment in Fund.

**Ether Futures Contracts Risk.** The Fund invests in Ether Futures Contracts to obtain indirect exposure to ether. The Fund does not invest directly in or hold ether. The price of Ether Futures Contracts should be expected to differ from the current cash price of ether, which is sometimes referred to as the "spot" price of ether, and may not be correlated over short or long periods of time. Consequently, the performance of the Fund should be expected to perform differently from the spot price of ether. These differences could be significant.

The market for Ether Futures Contracts may be less developed, and potentially less liquid and more volatile, than more established futures markets. While the Ether Futures Contracts market has grown substantially since Ether Futures Contracts commenced trading in January 2021, there can be no assurance that this growth will continue. Ether Futures Contracts are subject to collateral requirements and daily limits that may limit the Fund's ability to achieve the desired exposure. If the Fund is unable to meet its investment objective, the Fund's returns may be lower than expected. Additionally, these collateral requirements may require the Fund to liquidate its position when it otherwise would not do so.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Future Exchange Position Limit Risk*. Ether Futures Contracts are subject to position limits established by the CME, another futures exchange or the CFTC. The position limits by a futures exchange prevent any single investor, such as the Fund(together with all other accounts managed by the Adviser required to be aggregated), from holding more than a specified number of Ether Futures Contracts. Such position limits may prevent the Fund from entering into the desired amount of Ether Futures Contracts at times. Because the Fund is new, it does not anticipate that the CME's and any other futures exchange's position limits will adversely affect the Fund's ability to achieve its 100% notional exposure to ether until the Fund's assets under management grow significantly. Any modification to the Fund's exposure to ether may cause the Fund to exit its Ether Futures Contracts at disadvantageous times or prices, potentially subjecting the Fund to substantial losses, and prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective. The Fund may not succeed in achieving or maintaining 100% notional exposure to ether, possibly maintaining substantially lower exposure for extended periods of time.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Ether Futures Contracts Capacity Risk*. If the Fund's ability to obtain exposure to Ether Futures Contracts consistent with its investment objective is disrupted for any reason including, for example, limited liquidity in the Ether Futures Contracts market (either absolute or relative to the size of the Fund and its reasonably anticipated trade sizes), a disruption to the Ether Futures Contracts market, as a result of margin requirements or position limits imposed by the Fund's FCMs, the CME, or the CFTC, or if some or all of the Fund's FCMs exit the business, the Fund may not be able to achieve its investment objective and may experience significant losses. Any disruption in the Fund's ability to obtain exposure to Ether Futures Contracts will cause the Fund's performance to deviate from the performance of Ether Futures Contracts. Additionally, the ability of the Fund to obtain exposure to Ether Futures Contracts is limited by certain tax rules that limit the amount the Fund can invest in its wholly-owned subsidiary as of the end of each tax quarter. Exceeding this amount may have tax consequences.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• *Cost of Futures Investment Risk*. When an Ether Futures Contracts contract is nearing expiration, the Fund will generally sell it and use the proceeds to buy an Ether Futures Contract with a later expiration date. This is commonly referred to as "rolling". The costs associated with rolling Ether Futures Contracts typically are substantially higher than the costs associated with other futures contracts and may have a significant adverse impact on the performance of the Fund.

In addition to the risks of futures contracts generally, the market for Ether Futures Contracts has additional unique risks. The market for Ether Futures Contracts may be less developed, less liquid and more volatile than more established futures markets. While the Ether Futures Contracts market has grown substantially since Ether Futures Contracts commenced trading in January 2021, there can be no assurance that this growth will continue. Ether Futures Contracts are subject to collateral requirements and daily limits may impact the Fund's ability to achieve the desired exposure. If the Fund is unable to meet its investment objective, the Fund's returns may be lower than expected. Additionally, these collateral requirements may require the Fund to liquidate its position when it otherwise would not do so.

The differences in the prices of ether and Ether Futures Contracts will expose the Fund to risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in ether, including larger losses or smaller gains.

Currently, the Fund does not anticipate that the liquidity of Ether Futures Contracts will have any material negative impact on the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective or meet any redemptions. If the Fund's ability to obtain exposure to Ether Futures Contracts were to be disrupted for any reason, including, for example, limited liquidity in the Ether Futures Contracts market, a disruption to the Ether Futures Contracts market, or as a result of margin requirements, position limits, accountability levels, or other limitations imposed by the Fund's FCMs, the listing exchanges, or the CFTC, the Advisor would take such action as it believes appropriate and in the best interest of the Fund in consideration of the facts and circumstances at such time, including, for example, investing in Other Investment Companies.

Additionally, the ability of the Fund to obtain exposure to Ether Futures Contracts is limited by certain tax rules that restrict the amount the Fund can invest in its wholly owned subsidiary as of the end of each tax quarter. Exceeding this amount may have tax consequences; see the section entitled "Tax Risk" in the Fund's Prospectus for more information.

**Futures Contracts Risk.** Risks of futures contracts include: (i) an imperfect correlation between the value of the futures contract and the underlying asset; (ii) possible lack of a liquid secondary market; (iii) the inability to close a futures contract when desired; (iv) losses caused by unanticipated market movements, which may be unlimited; (v) an obligation for the Fund to make daily cash payments to maintain its required margin, particularly at times when the Fund may have insufficient cash; and (vi) unfavorable execution prices from rapid selling. Unlike equities, which typically entitle the holder to a continuing stake in a corporation, futures contracts normally specify a certain date for settlement in cash based on the reference asset. As the futures contracts approach expiration, they may be replaced by 8 similar contracts that have a later expiration. This process is referred to as "rolling." If the market for these contracts is in "contango," meaning that the prices of futures contracts in the nearer months are lower than the price of contracts in the distant months, the sale of the near-term month contract would be at a lower price than the longer-term contract, resulting in a cost to "roll" the futures contract. The actual realization of a potential roll cost will be dependent upon the difference in price of the near and distant contract. The costs associated with rolling Ether Futures Contracts typically are substantially higher than the costs associated with other futures contracts and may have a significant adverse impact on the performance of the Fund. Because the margin requirement for futures contracts is less than the value of the assets underlying the futures contract, futures trading involves a degree of leverage. As a result, a relatively small price movement in a futures contract may result in immediate and substantial loss, as well as gain, to the investor. For example, if at the time of purchase, 40% of the value of the futures contract is deposited as margin, a subsequent 20% decrease in the value of the futures contract would result in a loss of half of the margin deposit, before any deduction for the transaction costs, if the account were then closed out. A decrease in excess of 40% would result in a loss exceeding the original margin deposit, if the futures contract were closed out. Thus, a purchase or sale of a futures contract may result in losses in excess of the amount initially invested in the futures contract. However, the Fund would presumably have sustained comparable losses if, instead of investing in the futures contract, it had invested in the underlying financial instrument and sold it after the decline.

**Cost of Futures Investment Risk.** When an Ether Futures Contract is nearing expiration, the Fund will generally sell it and use the proceeds to buy an Ether Futures Contract with a later expiration date. This is commonly referred to as "rolling".

If the Fund rolls Ether Futures Contracts that are in contango, the Fund would sell a lower priced, expiring contract and purchase a higher priced, longer dated contract. The price difference between the expiring contract and longer dated contract associated with rolling Ether Futures Contracts is typically substantially higher than the price difference associated with rolling other futures contracts. Contango in the ether futures market may have a significant adverse impact on the performance of the Fund and may cause Ether Futures Contracts and the Fund to underperform the spot price of ether. Both contango and backwardation would reduce the Fund's correlation to the spot price of ether and may limit or prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective. The impact of both contango and backwardation may also be greater to the extent the Fund invests in back month Ether futures contracts.

**Derivatives Risk.** In addition to Ether Futures Contracts, the Fund may obtain exposure through the following other derivatives: options on Other Investment Companies and swap agreement transactions that reference Other Investment Companies, ether, Ether Futures Contracts, or ether-related indexes.

Investing in derivatives may be considered aggressive and may expose the Fund to risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in the reference asset(s) underlying the derivative (e.g., the securities or commodities contained in the Fund). The use of derivatives may result in larger losses or smaller gains than directly investing in securities or commodities. The risks of using derivatives include: (1) the risk that there may be imperfect correlation between the price of the financial instruments and movements in the prices of the reference asset(s); (2) the risk that an instrument is mispriced; (3) credit or counterparty risk on the amount a Fund expects to receive from a counterparty; (4) the risk that securities prices, interest rates and currency markets will move adversely and a Fund will incur significant losses; (5) the risk that the cost of holding a financial instrument might exceed its total return;

and (6) the possible absence of a liquid secondary market for a particular instrument and possible exchange imposed price fluctuation limits, either of which may make it difficult or impossible to adjust a Fund's position in a particular instrument when desired. Each of these factors may prevent a Fund from achieving its investment objective and may increase the volatility (i.e., fluctuations) of the Fund's returns. Because derivatives often require limited initial investment, the use of derivatives also may expose a Fund to losses in excess of those amounts initially invested.

Further, the Fund may invest in options on Other Investment Companies, which generally require less capital than equivalent stock transactions. They may return smaller dollar figures but a potentially greater percentage of the investment than equivalent stock transactions. As an options holder, the potential loss is limited to the premium paid for the contract while the potential gain is often unlimited. While leverage means the percentage returns can be significant, the amount of cash required may be smaller than equivalent stock transactions. As an options holder, the Fund risks the entire amount of the premium it pays. But as an options writer, it takes on a much higher level of risk. For example, if the Fund writes an uncovered call, it faces unlimited potential loss, since there is no cap on how high a stock price can rise. When buying options, a Fund risks losing the premium paid, plus commissions and fees.

The performance of an Ether-Linked ETP may not track the performance of its underlying benchmark due to embedded costs and other factors. Thus, to the extent the Fund invests in swaps that use an Ether-Linked ETP as the reference asset, the Fund may be subject to greater correlation risk and may not achieve as high a degree of correlation with its investment objective than if the Fund only used Ether Futures Contracts.

**Ether**-Linked **ETP Risk.** The Fund may invest in shares of Ether-Linked ETPs, which are exchange traded investment products not registered under the 1940 Act that seek to match the daily changes in the price of Ether, and trade intra day on a national securities exchange. Shares of Ether-Linked ETPs are not traded at net asset value, but may trade at prices above or below the value of their underlying portfolios. The level of risk involved in the purchase or sale of an Ether-Linked ETPs is similar to the risk involved in the purchase or sale of an exchange traded fund, and generally reflect the risks of owning the underlying Ether Futures Contracts and cash that the Ether-Linked ETP holds.

Ether-Linked ETPs are subject to management fees and other fees that may increase their costs versus the costs of owning Ether Futures Contracts directly. The Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of management fees and other expenses that are charged by Ether-Linked ETPs in addition to the management fees and other expenses paid by the Fund. The Fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sale of shares of Ether-Linked ETPs.

**Swap Agreements Risk.** The Fund may enter into cash-settled swaps and other derivatives to gain exposure to an underlying asset without actually purchasing such asset. Swaps are two-party contracts entered into primarily by institutional investors for periods ranging from a day to more than one year. In a standard "swap" transaction, two parties agree to exchange the returns (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on a particular pre-determined interest rate, commodity, security, indexes, or other assets or measurable indicators. The primary risks associated with the use of swaps are mispricing or improper valuation, imperfect correlation between movements in the notional amount and the price of the underlying investments, and the failure of a counterparty to perform. If a counterparty's creditworthiness for an over-the-counter swap declines, the value of the swap would likely decline. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the Fund could eliminate its exposure under an outstanding swap by entering into an offsetting swap with the same or another party. In addition, the Fund may use a combination of swaps on an underlying index and swaps that reference Ether-Linked ETPs that is designed to track the performance of that index. The performance of an Ether-Linked ETP may deviate from the performance of its underlying index due to embedded costs and other factors. Thus, the Fund's swaps may be subject to greater correlation risk to the extent such agreements reference an Ether-Linked ETP as the reference asset, and as a result may not achieve as high of a degree of correlation with the price of ether as it otherwise would using Ether Futures Contracts.

**Management Risk.** The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed portfolio. The Adviser will apply investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that the Fund will meet its investment objective.

**Counterparty Risk.** The Fund will be subject to credit risk (i.e., the risk that a counterparty is unwilling or unable to make timely payments or otherwise meet its contractual obligations) with respect to the amount the Fund expects to receive from counterparties to: Ether Futures Contracts; reverse repurchase agreements; options on Other Investment Companies; or swaps on Other Investment Companies, ether, Ether Futures Contracts, or ether-related indexes.

The Fund may be negatively impacted if a counterparty becomes bankrupt or otherwise fails to perform its obligations under such an agreement. The Fund may experience significant delays in obtaining any recovery in a bankruptcy or other reorganization proceeding and the Fund may obtain only limited recovery or may obtain no recovery in such circumstances. In order to attempt to mitigate potential counterparty credit risk, the Fund typically enters into transactions with major financial institutions.

The counterparty to an exchange-traded futures contract is subject to the credit risk of the clearing house and the FCM through which it holds its position. Specifically, the FCM or the clearing house could fail to perform its obligations, causing significant losses to the Fund. For example, the Fund could lose margin payments it has deposited with an FCM as well as any gains owed but not paid to the Fund, if the FCM or clearing house becomes insolvent or otherwise fails to perform its obligations. Credit risk of market participants with respect to derivatives that are centrally cleared is concentrated in a few clearing houses and it is not clear how an insolvency proceeding of a clearing house would be conducted and what impact an insolvency of a clearing house would have on the financial system. Under current CFTC regulations, a FCM maintains customers' assets in a bulk segregated account. If a FCM fails to do so, or is unable to satisfy a substantial deficit in a customer account, its other customers may be subject to risk of loss of their funds in the event of that FCM's bankruptcy. In that event, in the case of futures, the FCM's customers are entitled to recover, even in respect of property specifically traceable to them, only a proportional share of all property available for distribution to all of that FCM's customers. In addition, if the FCM does not comply with the applicable regulations, or in the event of a fraud or misappropriation of customer assets by the FCM, the Fund could have only an unsecured creditor claim in an insolvency of the FCM with respect to the margin held by the FCM. FCMs are also required to transfer to the clearing house the amount of margin required by the clearing house, which amount is generally held in an omnibus account at the clearing house for all customers of the FCM. In addition, the Fund may enter into futures contracts and repurchase agreements with a limited number of counterparties, which may increase the Fund's exposure to counterparty credit risk. The Fund does not specifically limit its counterparty risk with respect to any single counterparty.

Further, there is a risk that no suitable counterparties are willing to enter into reverse repurchase agreements with the Fund, or continue to enter into, reverse repurchase agreement transactions with the Fund and, as a result, the Fund may not be able to achieve its investment objective. There is also the risk that the Fund may not be able to engage in reverse repurchase agreement transactions because suitable counterparties refuse to enter into transactions with the Fund. Contractual provisions and applicable law may prevent or delay the Fund from exercising its rights to terminate an investment or transaction with a financial institution experiencing financial difficulties, or to realize on collateral, and another institution may be substituted for that financial institution without the consent of the Fund. If the credit rating of a counterparty to a futures contract and/or repurchase agreement declines, the Fund may nonetheless choose or be required to keep existing transactions in place with the counterparty, in which event the Fund would be subject to any increased credit risk associated with those transactions. Also, in the event of a counterparty's (or its affiliate's) insolvency, the possibility exists that the Fund's ability to exercise remedies, such as the termination of transactions, netting of obligations and realization on collateral, could be stayed or eliminated under special resolution regimes adopted in the United States, the European Union and various other jurisdictions. Such regimes provide government authorities with broad authority to intervene when a financial institution is experiencing financial difficulty. In particular, the regulatory authorities could reduce, eliminate, or convert to equity the liabilities to the Fund of a counterparty who is subject to such proceedings in the European Union (sometimes referred to as a "bail in").

**Investment Strategy Risk.** The Fund, through the Subsidiary, invests primarily in Ether Futures Contracts. The Fund does not invest directly in or hold ether. Instead, the Fund seeks to benefit from increases in the price of Ether Futures Contracts for a single day. The price of Ether Futures Contracts may differ, sometimes significantly, from the current cash price of ether, which is sometimes referred to as the "spot" price of ether. Consequently, the Fund may perform differently from the spot price of ether.

**Liquidity Risk.** The market for the Ether Futures Contracts may be subject to periods of illiquidity. During such times it may be difficult or impossible to buy or sell a position at the desired price. Market disruptions or volatility can also make it difficult to find a counterparty willing to transact at a reasonable price and sufficient size. Illiquid markets may cause losses, which could be significant. Large positions also increase the risk of illiquidity, which may make the Fund's positions more difficult to liquidate, and increase the losses incurred while trying to do so.

**Collateral Investments Risk.** The Fund's use of Collateral Investments may include obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities, including bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, investment companies registered under the 1940 Act that invest in high-quality securities and corporate debt securities, such as commercial paper.

Some securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored instrumentalities may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in which case the investor must look principally to the agency or instrumentality issuing or guaranteeing the security for ultimate repayment, and may not be able to assert a claim against the United States itself in the event that the agency or instrumentality does not meet its commitment. The U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate. Although the Fund may hold securities that carry U.S. Government guarantees, these guarantees do not extend to Shares.

Investment companies that invest in high-quality securities are subject to management fees and other expenses. Therefore, investments in these funds will cause the Fund to bear indirectly a proportional share of the fees and costs of the funds in which it invests. At the same time, the Fund will continue to pay its own management fees and expenses with respect to all of its assets, including any portion invested in the shares of such fund. It is possible to lose money by investing in investment companies that invest in high quality securities.

Corporate debt securities such as commercial paper generally are short-term unsecured promissory notes issued by businesses. Corporate debt may carry variable or floating rates of interest. Corporate debt securities carry both credit risk and interest rate risk. Credit risk is the risk that the Fund could lose money if the issuer of a corporate debt security is unable to pay interest or repay principal when it is due.

**Active Management Risk.** The Fund is actively managed, and its performance reflects investment decisions that the Adviser makes for the Fund. Such judgments about the Fund's investments may prove to be incorrect. If the investments selected and the strategies employed by the Fund fail to produce the intended results, the Fund could underperform as compared to other funds with similar investment objectives and/or strategies, or could have negative returns.

**Active Market Risk.** Although the Shares are listed for trading on the Exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for the Shares will develop or be maintained. Shares trade on the Exchange at market prices that may be below, at or above the Fund's NAV. Securities, including the Shares, are subject to market fluctuations and liquidity constraints that may be caused by such factors as economic, political, or regulatory developments, changes in interest rates, and/or perceived trends in securities prices. Shares could decline in value or underperform other investments.

**Asset Concentration Risk.** Since the Fund may take concentrated positions in investments that provide exposure to ether and Ether Futures Contracts, the Fund's performance may be hurt disproportionately and significantly by the poor performance of those positions to which it has significant exposure. Asset concentration makes the Fund more susceptible to any single occurrence affecting the underlying positions and may subject the Fund to greater market risk than more diversified funds.

**Authorized Participant Concentration Risk.** Only an AP may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that act as APs on an agency basis (i.e. on behalf of other market participants). To the extent that these institutions exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem, in either of these cases, Shares may trade at a discount to the Fund's NAV and possibly face delisting.

**Cash Transaction Risk.** Most ETFs generally make in-kind redemptions to avoid being taxed at the fund level on gains on the distributed portfolio securities. However, unlike most ETFs, the Fund currently intends to effect some or all redemptions for cash, rather than in-kind, because of the nature of the Fund's investments. The Fund may be required to sell portfolio securities to obtain the cash needed to distribute redemption proceeds, which involves transaction costs that the Fund may not have incurred had it effected redemptions entirely in kind. These costs may include brokerage costs and/or taxable gains or losses, which may be imposed on the Fund and decrease the Fund's NAV to the extent such costs are not offset by a transaction fee payable to an AP. If the Fund recognizes gain on these sales, this generally will cause the Fund to recognize gain it might not otherwise have recognized if it were to distribute portfolio securities in-kind, or to recognize such gain sooner than would otherwise be required. This may decrease the tax efficiency of the Fund compared to ETFs that utilize an in-kind redemption process, and there may be a substantial difference in the after-tax rate of return between the Fund and other ETFs.

**Clearing Broker Risk.** The Fund's investments in exchange-traded futures contracts expose it to the risks of a clearing broker (or a FCM). Under current regulations, a clearing broker or FCM maintains customers' assets in a bulk segregated account. There is a risk that Fund assets deposited with the clearing broker to serve as margin may be used to satisfy the broker's own obligations or the losses of the broker's other clients. In the event of default, the Fund could experience lengthy delays in recovering some or all of its assets and may not see any recovery at all. Furthermore, the Fund is subject to the risk that no FCM is willing or able to clear the Fund's transactions or maintain the Fund's assets. If the Fund's FCMs are unable or unwilling to clear the Fund's transactions, or if the FCM refuses to maintain the Fund's assets, the Fund will be unable have its orders for Ether Futures Contracts fulfilled or assets custodied. In such a circumstance, the performance of the Fund will likely deviate from the performance of daily changes in the price of ether and may result in the proportion of Ether Futures Contracts in the Fund's portfolio relative to the total assets of the Fund to decrease.

**Commodity Regulatory Risk.** The Fund's use of commodity futures subject to regulation by the CFTC has caused the Fund to be classified as a "commodity pool" and this designation requires that the Fund comply with CFTC rules, which may impose additional regulatory requirements and compliance obligations. The Fund's investment decisions may need to be modified, and commodity contract positions held by the Fund may have to be liquidated at disadvantageous times or prices, to avoid exceeding any applicable position limits established by the CFTC, potentially subjecting the Fund to substantial losses. The regulation of commodity transactions in the United States is subject to ongoing modification by government, self-regulatory and judicial action. The effect of any future regulatory change with respect to any aspect of the Fund is impossible to predict, but could be substantial and adverse to the Fund.

**Credit Risk.** An issuer or other obligated party of a debt security may be unable or unwilling to make dividend, interest and/or principal payments when due. In addition, the value of a debt security may decline because of concerns about the issuer's ability or unwillingness to make such payments.

**Cyber Security Risk.** The Fund is susceptible to operational risks through breaches in cyber security. A breach in cyber security refers to both intentional and unintentional events that may cause the Fund to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption or lose operational capacity. Such events could cause the Fund to incur regulatory penalties, reputational damage, additional compliance costs associated with corrective measures and/or financial loss. Cyber security breaches may involve unauthorized access to the Fund's digital information systems through "hacking" or malicious software coding, but may also result from outside attacks such as denial-of service attacks through efforts to make network services unavailable to intended users. In addition, cyber security breaches of the Fund's third-party service providers, such as its administrator, transfer agent, or custodian, as applicable, or issuers in which the Fund invests, can also subject the Fund to many of the same risks associated with direct cyber security breaches. While the Fund has established business continuity plans and risk management systems designed to reduce the risks associated with cyber security, there are inherent limitations in such plans and systems. Additionally, there is no guarantee that such efforts will succeed, especially because the Fund does not directly control the cyber security systems of issuers or third-party service providers

**Debt Securities Risk.** Investments in debt securities subject the holder to the credit risk of the issuer. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer or other obligor of a security will not be able or willing to make payments of interest and principal when due. Generally, the value of debt securities will change inversely with changes in interest rates. To the extent that interest rates rise, certain underlying obligations may be paid off substantially slower than originally anticipated and the value of those securities may fall sharply. During periods of falling interest rates, the income received by the Fund may decline. If the principal on a debt security is prepaid before expected, the prepayments of principal may have to be reinvested in obligations paying interest at lower rates. Debt securities generally do not trade on a securities exchange making them generally less liquid and more difficult to value than common stock.

**Frequent Trading Risk.** The Fund regularly purchases and subsequently sells (i.e., "rolls") individual futures contracts throughout the year so as to maintain a fully invested position. As the contracts near their expiration dates, the Fund rolls them over into new contracts. This frequent trading of contracts may increase the amount of commissions or mark-ups to broker-dealers that the Fund pays when it buys and sells contracts, which may detract from the Fund's performance. High portfolio turnover may result in the Fund paying higher levels of transaction costs and may generate greater tax liabilities for shareholders. Frequent trading risk may cause the Fund's performance to be less than expected.

**Interest Rate Risk.** Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the debt securities in the Fund's portfolio will decline because of rising market interest rates. Interest rate risk is generally lower for shorter term debt securities and higher for longer-term debt securities. Duration is a reasonably accurate measure of a debt security's price sensitivity to changes in interest rates and a common measure of interest rate risk. Duration measures a debt security's expected life on a present value basis, taking into account the debt security's yield, interest payments and final maturity. In general, duration represents the expected percentage change in the value of a security for an immediate 1% change in interest rates. For example, the price of a debt security with a three-year duration would be expected to drop by approximately 3% in response to a 1% increase in interest rates. Therefore, prices of debt securities with shorter durations tend to be less sensitive to interest rate changes than debt securities with longer durations. As the value of a debt security changes over time, so will its duration.

**Investment Capacity Risk.** If the Fund's ability to obtain exposure to Ether Futures Contracts consistent with its investment objective is disrupted for any reason, including but not limited to, limited liquidity in the Ether Futures Contracts market, a disruption to the ether futures market, or as a result of margin requirements or position limits imposed by the Fund's FCMs, the CME, or the CFTC, and the Fund could not otherwise meet its investment objective through the use of other investments discussed above, the Fund would not be able to obtain sufficient leveraged exposure to the price of ether and therefore would be unable to achieve its investment objective and may experience significant losses.

**Leverage Risk.** The Fund seeks to achieve and maintain the exposure to the price of ether by using leverage inherent in futures contracts. Therefore, the Fund is subject to leverage risk. When the Fund purchases or sells an instrument or enters into a transaction without investing an amount equal to the full economic exposure of the instrument or transaction, it creates leverage, which can result in the Fund losing more than it originally invested. As a result, these investments may magnify losses to the Fund, and even a small market movement may result in significant losses to the Fund. Leverage may also cause the Fund to be more volatile because it may exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of the Fund's portfolio securities. Futures trading involves a degree of leverage and as a result, a relatively small price movement in futures instruments may result in immediate and substantial losses to the Fund. The Fund may at times be required to liquidate portfolio positions, including when it is not advantageous to do so, in order to comply with guidance from the SEC regarding asset segregation requirements to cover certain leveraged positions.

If the Fund is unable to obtain sufficient leveraged exposure to the value of ether due to the limited availability of necessary investments or financial instruments or trading halts in Ether Futures Contracts brought about by price limits on the CME, the Fund could, among other things, limit or suspend the purchase of creation units until the Adviser determines that the requisite exposure to Ether Futures Contracts is obtainable. During the period that the purchase of creation units is suspended, the Fund could trade at a significant premium or discount to its NAV and could experience substantial redemptions.

**Market Maker Risk.** If the Fund has lower average daily trading volumes, it may rely on a small number of third-party market makers to provide a market for the purchase and sale of Shares. Any trading halt or other problem relating to the trading activity of these market makers could result in a dramatic change in the spread between the Fund's NAV and the price at which the Shares are trading on the Exchange, which could result in a decrease in value of the Shares. In addition, decisions by market makers or APs to reduce their role or step away from these activities in times of market stress could inhibit the effectiveness of the arbitrage process in maintaining the relationship between the underlying values of the Fund's portfolio securities and the Fund's market price. This reduced effectiveness could result in Shares trading at a discount to NAV and also in greater than normal intra-day bid-ask spreads for Shares.

**Natural Disaster/Epidemic Risk.** Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics (for example, the novel coronavirus COVID-19), have been and can be highly disruptive to economies and markets and have recently led, and may continue to lead, to increased market volatility and significant market losses. Such natural disaster and health crises could exacerbate political, social, and economic risks, and result in significant breakdowns, delays, shutdowns, social isolation, and other disruptions to important global, local and regional supply chains affected, with potential corresponding results on the operating performance of the Fund and its investments. A climate of uncertainty and panic, including the contagion of infectious viruses or diseases, may adversely affect global, regional, and local economies and reduce the availability of potential investment opportunities, and increases the difficulty of performing due diligence and modeling market conditions, potentially reducing the accuracy of financial projections. Under these circumstances, the Fund may have difficulty achieving its investment objectives which may adversely impact Fund performance. Further, such events can be highly disruptive to economies and markets, significantly disrupt the operations of individual companies (including, but not limited to, the Fund's investment advisor, third party service providers, and counterparties), sectors, industries, markets, securities and commodity exchanges, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of the Fund's investments. These factors can cause substantial market volatility, exchange trading suspensions and closures, changes in the availability of and the margin requirements for certain instruments, and can impact the ability of the Fund to complete redemptions and otherwise affect Fund performance and Fund trading in the secondary market. A widespread crisis would also affect the global economy in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. How long such events will last and whether they will continue or recur cannot be predicted. Impacts from these could have a significant impact on the Fund's performance, resulting in losses to your investment.

**Non**-Diversification **Risk.** The Fund is classified as a "non-diversified company" under the 1940 Act. As a result, the Fund is only limited as to the percentage of its assets which may be invested in the securities of any one issuer by the diversification requirements imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers. As a result, the Fund may be more susceptible to a single adverse economic or regulatory occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers, experience increased volatility and be highly invested in certain issuers.

**Operational Risk.** The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund's service providers, counterparties or other third parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and Adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

**Premium/Discount Risk.** The market price of the Shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in the Fund's NAV as well as the relative supply of and demand for Shares on the Exchange. The Fund's market price may deviate from the value of the Fund's underlying portfolio holdings, particularly in time of market stress, with the result that investors may pay more or receive less than the underlying value of the Shares bought or sold. The Adviser cannot predict whether Shares will trade below, at, or above their NAV because the Shares trade on the Exchange at market prices and not at NAV. Price differences may be due, in large part, to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for Shares will be closely related, but not identical, to the same forces influencing the prices of the holdings of the Fund trading individually or in the aggregate at any point in time. However, given that Shares can only be purchased and redeemed in Creation Units, and only to and from broker-dealers and large institutional investors that have entered into participation agreements (unlike shares of closed-end funds, which frequently trade at appreciable discounts from, and sometimes at premiums to, their NAV), the Adviser believes that large discounts or premiums to the NAV of Shares should not be sustained. During stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the market for the Fund's underlying portfolio holdings, which could in turn lead to differences between the market price of the Shares and their NAV. This can be reflected as a spread between the bid and ask prices for the Fund quoted during the day or a premium or discount in the closing price from the Fund's NAV.

**Reverse Repurchase Agreements Risk.** The Fund may invest in reverse repurchase agreements. Reverse repurchase agreements are transactions in which the Fund sells portfolio securities to financial institutions such as banks and broker-dealers, and agrees to repurchase them at a mutually agreed-upon date and price which is higher than the original sale price. Reverse repurchase agreements are a form of leverage and the use of reverse repurchase agreements by the Fund may increase the Fund's volatility. The Fund incurs costs, including interest expenses, in connection with the opening and closing of reverse repurchase agreements that will be borne by the shareholders.

Reverse repurchase agreements are also subject to the risk that the other party to the reverse repurchase agreement will be unable or unwilling to complete the transaction as scheduled, which may result in losses to the Fund. In situations where the Fund is required to post collateral with a counterparty, the counterparty may fail to segregate the collateral or may commingle the collateral with the counterparty's own assets. As a result, in the event of the counterparty's bankruptcy or insolvency, the Fund's collateral may be subject to the conflicting claims of the counterparty's creditors, and the Fund may be exposed to the risk of a court treating the Fund as a general unsecured creditor of the counterparty, rather than as the owner of the collateral. There can be no assurance that a counterparty will not default and that the Fund will not sustain a loss on a transaction as a result.

Reverse repurchase agreements also involve the risk that the market value of the securities sold by the Fund may decline below the price at which it is obligated to repurchase the securities. In addition, when the Fund invests the proceeds it receives in a reverse repurchase transaction, there is a risk that those investments may decline in value. In this circumstance, the Fund could be required to sell other investments in order to meet its obligations to repurchase the securities.

**Subsidiary Investment Risk.** Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands, under which the Fund and the Subsidiary are organized, respectively, could result in the inability of the Fund to operate as intended and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders. The Subsidiary is not registered under the 1940 Act and is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. However, as the Subsidiary is wholly-owned by the Fund, and the investors of the Fund will have the investor protections of the 1940 Act, the Fund as a whole — including the Subsidiary — will provide investors with 1940 Act protections.

**Tax Risk.** The Fund intends to elect and to qualify each year to be treated as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code. As a RIC, the Fund will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the portion of its net investment income and net capital gain that it distributes to Shareholders, provided that it satisfies certain requirements of the Code. If the Fund does not qualify as a RIC for any taxable year and certain relief provisions are not available, the Fund's taxable income will be subject to tax at the Fund level and to a further tax at the shareholder level when such income is distributed. Additionally, buying securities shortly before the record date for a taxable dividend or capital gain distribution is commonly known as "buying the dividend." In the event a shareholder purchases Shares shortly before such a distribution, the entire distribution may be taxable to the shareholder even though a portion of the distribution effectively represents a return of the purchase price. To comply with the asset diversification test applicable to a RIC, the Fund will limit its investments in the Subsidiary to 25% of the Fund's total assets at the end of each tax quarter. The investment strategy of the Fund will cause the Fund to hold substantially more than 25% of the Fund's total assets in investments in the Subsidiary the majority of the time. The Fund intends to manage the exposure to the Subsidiary so that the Fund's investments in the Subsidiary do not exceed 25% of the total assets at the end of any tax quarter. If the Fund's investments in the Subsidiary were to exceed 25% of the Fund's total assets at the end of a tax quarter, the Fund, generally, has a grace period to cure such lack of compliance. If the Fund fails to timely cure, it may no longer be eligible to be treated as a RIC.

Because Ether Futures Contracts produce non-qualifying income for purposes of qualifying as a RIC, the Fund makes its investments in Ether Futures Contracts through the Subsidiary. The Fund intends to treat any income it may derive from the futures contracts received by the Subsidiary as "qualifying income" under the provisions of the Code applicable to RICs. The Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") has issued numerous Private Letter Rulings ("PLRs") provided to third parties not associated with the Fund or its affiliates (which only those parties may rely on as precedent) concluding that similar arrangements resulted in qualifying income. Many of such PLRs have now been revoked by the IRS. In March of 2019, the Internal Revenue Service published Regulations that concluded that income from a corporation similar to the Subsidiary would be qualifying income, if the income is related to the Fund's business of investing in stocks or securities. Although the Regulations do not require distributions from the Subsidiary, the Fund intends to cause the Subsidiary to make distributions that would allow the Fund to make timely distributions to its shareholders. The Fund generally will be required to include in its own taxable income the income of the Subsidiary for a tax year, regardless of whether the Fund receives a distribution of the Subsidiary's income in that tax year, and this income would nevertheless be subject to the distribution requirement for qualification as a regulated investment company and would be taken into account for purposes of the 4% excise tax.

If, in any year, the Fund were to fail to qualify for the special tax treatment accorded a RIC and its shareholders, and were ineligible to or were not to cure such failure, the Fund would be taxed in the same manner as an ordinary corporation subject to U.S. federal income tax on all its income at the fund level. The resulting taxes could substantially reduce the Fund's net assets and the amount of income available for distribution. In addition, in order to requalify for taxation as a RIC, the Fund could be required to recognize unrealized gains, pay substantial taxes and interest, and make certain distributions.

**Trading Issues Risk.** Trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange's "circuit breaker" rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. The Fund may have difficulty maintaining its listing on the Exchange in the event the Fund's assets are small, the Fund does not have enough shareholders, or if the Fund is unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders.

**Valuation Risk.** The Fund or the Subsidiary may hold securities or other assets that may be valued on the basis of factors other than market quotations. This may occur because the asset or security does not trade on a centralized exchange, or in times of market turmoil or reduced liquidity. There are multiple methods that can be used to value a portfolio holding when market quotations are not readily available. The value established for any portfolio holding at a point in time might differ from what would be produced using a different methodology or if it had been priced using market quotations. Portfolio holdings that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including "fair valued" assets or securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their valuations from one day to the next than if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund or the Subsidiary could sell or close out a portfolio position for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund or the Subsidiary would incur a loss because a portfolio position is sold or closed out at a discount to the valuation established by the Fund or the Subsidiary at that time. The Fund's ability to value investments may be impacted by technological issues or errors by pricing services or other third-party service providers.

**Volatility Risk.** Volatility is the characteristic of a security or other asset, an index or a market to fluctuate significantly in price within a short time period. The value of the Fund's investments in Ether Futures Contracts — and therefore the value of an investment in the Fund — could decline significantly and without warning, including to zero. If you are not prepared to accept significant and unexpected changes in the value of the Fund and the possibility that you could lose your entire investment in the Fund, you should not invest in the Fund.

**The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.**

#### Performance
As of the date of this prospectus, the Fund has been in operation for less than one full calendar year and therefore does not report its performance. Once available, the Fund's performance information will be accessible on the Fund's website at www.volatilityshares.com and will provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund.

#### Management
*<u>*<u>Investment Adviser</u>*</u>*

Volatility Shares LLC

*<u>*<u>Portfolio Managers</u>*</u>*

The following persons serve as portfolio managers of the Fund.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Charles Lowery — Chief Investment Officer, Volatility Shares

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Anand Desai — Head of Portfolio Management, Volatility Shares

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Dustin Shidaker — Portfolio Manager, Volatility Shares

Each of the portfolio managers is primarily and jointly responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund.

#### Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in large blocks of shares called "Creation Units." Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the secondary market through a broker-dealer at a market price. Since Shares trade on securities exchanges in the secondary market at their market price rather than their NAV, the Shares may trade at a price greater than (premium) or less than (discount) the Fund's NAV. An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market (the "bid-ask spread"). Recent information, including the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, is available online at www.volatilityshares.com.

#### Tax Information
The Fund's distributions will generally be taxable as ordinary income, returns of capital or capital gains. A sale of Shares may result in capital gain or loss.

#### Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase Shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Adviser and Foreside Fund Services, LLC, the Fund's distributor (the "Distributor"), may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.

*You can find the Fund's statutory prospectus and other information about the Fund, including the statement of additional information and most recent reports to shareholders, online at www.volatilityshares.com/ethu.*