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21Share Core Ethereum ETF
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Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On August 27, 2025, 21Shares Ethereum ETF (the “Trust”)’s sponsor, 21Shares US LLC (the “Sponsor”), caused a Certificate of Amendment to the Trust’s Certificate of Trust to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in order to change the name of the Trust from “21Shares Core Ethereum ETF” to “21Shares Ethereum ETF”. In addition, on August 27, 2025, the Sponsor and CSC Delaware Trust Company, the Trustee of the Trust, entered into a Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”). The Trust Agreement made conforming changes to the First Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to reflect the change to the name of the Trust. A copy of the Certificate of Amendment to the Trust’s Certificate of Trust and a copy of the Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement are filed as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
| 3.1 | Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of the Trust | |
| 3.2 | Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XRBL document) |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: August 27, 2025 | ||
| 21Shares Ethereum ETF | ||
| By: | 21Shares US LLC, as Sponsor to | |
| 21Shares Ethereum ETF | ||
| By: | /s/ Duncan Moir | |
| Name: | Duncan Moir | |
| Title: | President |
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