Joseph A. Hall +1 212 450 4565 joseph.hall@davispolk.com		Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 450 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017 davispolk.com

September 23, 2022

 

Re:	Grayscale Horizen Trust (ZEN)

Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form 10

Filed August 16, 2022

File No. 000-56435

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of Finance

100 F Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Att’n:

Ben Phippen

Amit Pande

Christopher Wall

Sonia Bednarowski

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On behalf of our client, Grayscale Investments, LLC, the sponsor (the “Sponsor”) of Grayscale Horizen Trust (ZEN) (the “Trust”), this letter sets forth the Sponsor’s responses to the comments provided by the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) in your letter dated September 9, 2022 on Amendment No. 2 to the registration statement on Form 10-12G (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the registration of the Trust’s shares (the “Shares”) pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

The Sponsor has revised the Registration Statement in response to the Staff’s comments and is submitting concurrently with this letter Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement, including Exhibit 99.1 (the “Information Statement”), which reflects these revisions and updates certain other information. For the Staff’s convenience, each comment is restated in italics prior to the response to such comment. All references to page numbers and captions correspond to pages and captions in the Information Statement.

Exhibit 99.1

General

 

1.

Refer to your response to comment 2. We note that you will transact in ZEN, for example selling ZEN to raise the funds needed for the payment of any Additional Trust Expenses. Please describe the procedures conducted by the Trust and Sponsor to determine, among other things, whether the counter-party in such transactions is not a sanctioned entity.

The Sponsor has revised the disclosure on pages 22, 23 and 104 of the Information Statement in response to the Staff’s comment.

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		U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned if you have any questions regarding the foregoing or if we may provide any additional information.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Joseph A. Hall

Joseph A. Hall

 

cc:	Michael Sonnenshein

Chief Executive Officer

Grayscale Investments, LLC

 

 

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