Why this exists
In January 2024 eleven spot Bitcoin ETFs began trading on the same morning, and within weeks the internet filled up with comparison tables. A striking number of them were wrong. Funds were listed on the wrong exchange. Fee waivers that had already expired were quoted as current. Futures funds, leveraged products and mining equity ETFs were mixed into the same table as spot funds, as though they were substitutes for one another. Assets under management were published without a date, which for a fund holding a single volatile asset makes the figure close to meaningless.
BitcoinETF Directory exists to be the version that is not wrong. Every fund on this site was checked against issuer material or an SEC filing where one was reachable, every figure that can move carries the date it was verified, and anything we could not confirm is labelled as unconfirmed rather than quietly rounded into place. The current data pass was completed on 2 September 2026.
What we publish
The site has two halves. The directory is reference data: tickers, sponsors, listing venues, fees, assets, coin holdings, custodians and authorised participants, organised so that products which behave differently are not thrown into the same table. A spot fund, a futures fund, a 2x fund and a miner ETF are four different things, and treating them as interchangeable is the single most common failure in this category.
The guides are the other half — longer explanations of the structure you are actually buying into, what it costs over a decade, how it is taxed, and how these funds came to be approved. That material is where we correct the claims that circulate without anyone checking them: that spot Bitcoin ETFs face a 28% collectibles tax rate, for instance, which does not follow from the statute and which no issuer disclosure supports.
How we work Where we stand
We are not crypto maximalists and we are not sceptics. Bitcoin is an extremely volatile asset that has had multiple drawdowns beyond 70%, and the fund wrapper does nothing whatsoever about that. It is also now held by a dozen regulated US exchange-traded products with roughly $99.6bn between them, which is a fact about market structure rather than a view about price.
What we do have opinions about is cost, structure and disclosure. We think a 1.50% fee on a passive trust holding one asset is difficult to justify when a fund from the same sponsor with the same custodian charges 0.15%. We think a fee waiver written to expire on a fixed date regardless of whether the fund reached its asset threshold is a marketing instrument rather than a price. We think an exchange that will not show you its fee schedule until you have opened an account has made a choice about who that serves. Where we hold a view, we say so plainly and show the reasoning.
Authorship
Pages on this site are published under the name of the site itself rather than a personal byline. We would rather not invent a persona to add borrowed authority, which is a common practice in this corner of the web and one we think readers see through. Where a page offers a judgement rather than a fact, it is marked as such — those sections are labelled as analyst notes, and they are opinion.
We are an editorial publisher. We are not a broker-dealer, an investment adviser, a bank, a fund manager or a tax adviser, and we are not registered with the SEC, FINRA or any equivalent body in another jurisdiction, because publishing general information about financial products does not require it. It also means we cannot advise you, and we do not.
How the site is funded
Some outbound links are commercial. If you open an account with CEX.IO after
following a link from this site, we may earn a fee. Those links carry a
nofollow attribute and open in a new tab. That revenue funds the research and
the hosting.
It does not buy anything else. No fund sponsor pays to appear here, to appear higher in a table, or to have a criticism softened. The tables are ordered by size, cost or launch date — never by commercial relationship — and where we criticise the exchange we link to, we do it on the same page as the link. You will find that on where to buy crypto, which says plainly that it does not publish its fee schedule before you register, and that this is a real problem. Our methodology page describes the sourcing rules in more detail.
Corrections
We will get things wrong. Fee schedules change, funds close, sponsors rename products mid-year, and some of the data we rely on is only available through third parties. If you spot an error, tell us at contact@bitcoinetf.directory and we will fix it and note the change. That applies especially to issuers — if a figure about your fund is wrong here, we would rather hear it from you than leave it standing.