“Bitcoin is the flagship digital asset,” Lee said in an interview.
The firm’s CEO, Jan van Eck, speaking at a MarketWatch-Barron’s conference on crypto assets in early April, almost seemed to tease the new ETF.
The index behind the fund is designed to limit exposure to companies that aren’t pure digital-asset plays.
The Index will rebalance quarterly, and, among other things, will attempt to get its portfolio as close to 100% pure-play stocks as possible.