21Shares Staking Payout vs Xetra Accumulation

21Shares has declared a distribution on five of its US-listed staking funds, payable today, September 30, 2026. The money does not come out of the issuer's own pocket but out of the staking income earned by the coins sitting inside the funds. If you invest from Germany, the side note matters more than the figure: the same house's European staking products, the ones you can actually put into your brokerage account via Xetra, distribute nothing at all. They credit the identical income to the fund's assets instead, so it ends up in the price rather than in your cash account.

That difference sounds like bookkeeping, and it is in fact the point where tax burden, compounding and the workload of your annual tax return begin to diverge. Buy a crypto product because it carries the word staking in its name and, depending on the wrapper, you are buying two very different things.

What 21Shares paid out: $0.031602 per share in the Ethereum staking fund

The issuer declared the September distributions on September 28, 2026. Five funds are affected, and the per-share amounts differ widely, because the underlying networks hand out different levels of reward and the share prices sit far apart:

• Ethereum staking fund (TETH): $0.031602 per share
• Solana staking fund (TSOL): $0.076590 per share
• Hyperliquid staking fund (THYP): $0.191360 per share
• Sui staking fund (TSUI): $0.052939 per share
• Polkadot staking fund (TDOT): $0.045029 per share