SEC Filing Document

Company: VanEck BNB ETF
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CIK: 2066824
Filing Type: S-1/A
Document Type: EX-10.7
Date Filed: 2026-03-16
Accession Number: 0001628280-26-017834
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SIC Code: 6221
SIC Description: Commodity Contracts Brokers & Dealers
URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2066824/000162828026017834/exhibit107-sx1a3.htm

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Underlying Shares as so directed to sell or redeem the Underlying Shares, record the transfer from the account of the Fund on the Custodian’s books and records and, upon the Custodian’s receipt of the proceeds of the sale or redemption, record the receipt of the proceeds for the account of such Fund on the Custodian’s books and records. SECTION 3.7 PROXIES. The Custodian shall cause to be promptly executed by the registered holder of domestic securities or other financial assets held in the United States of a Fund, if the securities or other financial assets are registered otherwise than in the name of the Fund or a nominee of the Fund, all proxies, without indication of the manner in which the proxies are to be voted, and shall promptly deliver to the Fund such proxies, all proxy soliciting materials and all notices relating to the securities or other financial assets.

SECTION 3.8    COMMUNICATIONS. Subject to the domestic securities or other financial assets held in the United States being registered as provided in Section 3.2, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the applicable Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities and other financial assets being held for the Fund. The Custodian shall transmit promptly to the applicable Fund all written information received by the Custodian from issuers of the securities and other financial assets whose tender or exchange is sought and from the party or its agent making the tender or exchange offer. The Custodian shall also transmit promptly to the applicable Fund all written information received by the Custodian regarding any class action or other collective litigation relating to Fund securities or other financial assets issued in the United States and then held, or previously held, during the relevant class-action period during the term of this Agreement by the Custodian for the account of the Fund, including, but not limited to, opt-out notices and proof-of-claim forms. The Custodian does not

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support class-action participation by a Fund beyond such forwarding of written information received by the Custodian.

SECTION 4.    RESERVED.

SECTION 5.    ACTIVITIES OF THE CUSTODIAN WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY HELD OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

SECTION 5.1.    APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN SUB-CUSTODIANS. Each Fund hereby authorizes and instructs the Custodian to employ as sub-custodians for the Fund’s securities and other assets maintained outside the United States in the countries listed on Schedule A (“foreign countries”) the foreign banking institutions designated on Part I of Schedule A hereto (“foreign sub-custodians”).

SECTION 5.2.    FOREIGN SECURITIES SYSTEMS. Except as may otherwise be agreed upon in writing by the Custodian and a Fund, securities of the Fund shall be maintained in a clearing agency which acts as a securities depository or in a book-entry system for the central handling of securities located outside the United States (each, as listed on Part II of Schedule A, a “Foreign Securities System”).

SECTION 5.3.    HOLDING SECURITIES. Foreign securities and other financial assets held outside of the United States shall be maintained in a Foreign Securities System in a foreign country through arrangements implemented by the Custodian or foreign sub-custodian, as applicable, in the foreign country. Securities and cash held in a U.S. Securities System or Foreign Securities System will be held subject to the rules, terms and conditions of such entity. Securities and cash held through foreign sub-custodians shall be held subject to the terms and conditions of Custodian's agreements with such subcustodians. Foreign subcustodians may be authorized to hold Securities in Foreign Securities Systems in which such foreign subcustodians participate. The Custodian shall identify on its books as belonging to the Funds the foreign securities and other financial assets held by each foreign sub-custodian or Foreign Securities System. The Custodian may hold foreign securities and other financial assets for all of its customers, including the Funds, with any foreign sub-custodian in an account that is identified as the Custodian’s account for the benefit of its customers; provided however, that (a) the records of the Custodian with respect to foreign securities or other financial assets of a Fund maintained in the account shall identify those securities and other financial assets as belonging to the Fund and (b) to the extent permitted and customary in the market in which the account is maintained, the Custodian shall require that securities and other financial assets so held by the foreign subcustodian be held separately from any assets of the foreign sub-custodian or of other customers of the foreign sub-custodian.

SECTION 5.4.    REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN SECURITIES. Foreign securities and other financial assets held outside of the United States maintained in the custody of a foreign sub-custodian and that are not bearer securities shall be registered in the name of the applicable Fund or in the name of the Custodian or in the name of any foreign sub-custodian or in the name of any nominee of any of the foregoing. The Fund agrees to hold any such nominee harmless from any liability as a holder of record of the foreign securities or other financial assets. The Custodian or a foreign sub-custodian reserves the right not to accept securities or other financial assets on behalf of a Fund under the terms of this Agreement unless the form of the securities or other financial assets and the manner in which they are delivered are in accordance with local market practice.

SECTION 5.5.    INDEMNIFICATION BY FOREIGN SUB-CUSTODIANS. Each contract pursuant to which the Custodian employs a foreign sub-custodian shall, to the extent possible, require the foreign sub-custodian to exercise reasonable care in the performance of its duties and indemnify and hold

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harmless the Custodian from and against any loss, damage, cost, expense, liability or claim arising out of or in connection with the foreign sub-custodian’s performance of its obligations. At a Fund’s election, a Fund shall be entitled to be subrogated to the rights of the Custodian with respect to any claims against a foreign sub-custodian as a consequence of any such loss, damage, cost, expense, liability or claim if and to the extent that the Fund has not been made whole for the loss, damage, cost, expense, liability or claim. In no event shall the Custodian be obligated to bring suit in its own name or to allow suit to be brought in its name.

SECTION 5.6    BANK ACCOUNTS.

5.6.1    GENERAL. The Custodian shall identify on its books as for the account of the applicable Fund the amount of cash (including cash denominated in foreign currencies) deposited with the Custodian. The Custodian shall maintain cash deposits in on book currencies on its balance sheet. The Custodian shall be liable for such balances. If the Custodian is unable to maintain, or market practice does not facilitate the maintenance for the Fund of a cash balance in a currency as an on book currency, a deposit account shall be opened and maintained by the Custodian outside the United States on behalf of the Fund with a foreign subcustodian. The Custodian shall not maintain the cash deposit on its balance sheet. The foreign sub-custodian will be liable for such balance directly to the Fund. All deposit accounts referred to in this Section shall be subject only to draft or order by the Custodian or, if applicable, the foreign sub-custodian acting pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. Cash maintained in a deposit account and denominated in an “on book” currency will be maintained under and subject to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Custodian will not have any deposit liability for deposits in any currency that is not an “on book” currency.

5.6.2    NON-U.S. BRANCH AND NON-U.S. DOLLAR DEPOSITS. In accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Custodian shall not be required to repay any deposit made at a nonU.S. branch of the Custodian or any deposit made with the Custodian and denominated in a non-U.S. dollar currency, if repayment of the deposit or the use of assets denominated in the non-U.S. dollar currency is prevented, prohibited or otherwise blocked due to (a) an act of war, insurrection or civil strife; (b) any action by a non-U.S. government or instrumentality or authority asserting governmental, military or police power of any kind, whether such authority be recognized as a de facto or a de jure government, or by any entity, political or revolutionary movement or otherwise that usurps, supervenes or otherwise materially impairs the normal operation of civil authority; or (c) the closure of a non-U.S. branch in order to prevent, in the reasonable judgment of the Custodian, harm to the employees or property of the Custodian.