VanEck Bitcoin ETF 8-K, filed Feb 14, 2025
VanEck Bitcoin ETF (HODL)
8-K
2025-02-14
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About this 8-K
VanEck Bitcoin ETF filed this 8-K on February 14, 2025.
Items reported
- Item 8.01: Other events
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): February 14, 2025
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Item 8.01. Other Events.
On January 31, 2025, VanEck Bitcoin ETF (the “Trust”) announced a four-for-one forward stock split (the “Stock Split”) of the Trust’s common shares of beneficial interest (“Shares”). The Shares began trading on a split-adjusted basis at market open on February 14, 2025. As a result of the Stock Split, every one Share that was issued and outstanding was automatically split into four Shares that are issued and outstanding. The Stock Split increased the number of Shares outstanding from 12,800,000 Shares to 51,200,000 Shares.
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.
Date: February 14, 2025
VanEck Bitcoin ETF * | |||||
| By: | VanEck Digital Assets, LLC, as Sponsor of the Trust | ||||
| By: | /s/ Matthew A. Babinsky | ||||
| Name: | Matthew A. Babinsky | ||||
| Title: | Assistant Vice President and Assistant Secretary | ||||
| * | The registrant is a trust. The individual specified above is signing in his capacity as an officer of VanEck Digital Assets, LLC, the Sponsor of the registrant. | ||||