{"id":12098,"date":"2026-08-19T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:03:13","slug":"hashdex-liquidates-14-7-million-bitcoin-etf-as-ibit-draws-143-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098","title":{"rendered":"Hashdex liquidates $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $143.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-single-article-content=\"\">\n<p>Hashdex\u2019s $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF is in liquidation after trading and creation orders ended, leaving remaining shareholders waiting for a cash payout rather than an exchange exit.<\/p>\n<p>The asset manager announced the closure on Aug. 3. The Hashdex Bitcoin ETF, known by its DEFI ticker, completed its last day of NYSE Arca trading on Aug. 17 and stopped accepting creation orders on the same date. Hashdex said the fund would then liquidate its remaining Bitcoin and wind up its operations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cs-article-embed\">\n<div class=\"cs-article-embed__media\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hashdex-bitcoin-etf--1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Hashdex debuts US spot Bitcoin ETF \u2018DEFI' with impressive pre-market activity\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hashdex-bitcoin-etf--1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Hashdex debuts US spot Bitcoin ETF \u2018DEFI' with impressive pre-market activity\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-article-embed__body\"> <span class=\"cs-article-embed__related-reading\">Related Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"cs-article-embed__title\">Hashdex debuts US spot Bitcoin ETF \u2018DEFI&#8217; with impressive pre-market activity<\/h3>\n<p>Hashdex&#8217;s DEFI Bitcoin fund could compete against rivals if its fees are competitive, analysts suggest.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"cs-article-embed__meta-item\">Mar 27, 2024<\/span> <span class=\"cs-article-embed__meta-divider\">\u00b7<\/span> <span class=\"cs-article-embed__meta-item\">Oluwapelumi Adejumo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The closure came just before a positive day for other U.S. Bitcoin products. Farside Investors, which publishes an automatically updated table of ETF flows, showed a provisional $189.3 million of net inflows across the products in its Aug. 18 row. BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, accounted for $143.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Hashdex reported approximately $14.7 million of DEFI assets under management as of July 30. The sponsor said it considered the fund\u2019s asset base, trading liquidity, operating costs, investor interest, product fit and other operational factors.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter\" data-inline-newsletter=\"\" data-newsletter-placement=\"article-midpoint\" data-newsletter-pending-label=\"Joining\u2026\" data-newsletter-pending-status=\"Joining the Daily Brief\u2026\" data-newsletter-email-required-message=\"Before sending, please provide your email address.\" aria-labelledby=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-title\" aria-describedby=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-copy\">\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__inner\">\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__content\"> <span class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__eyebrow\"> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-envelope\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> The Daily Brief <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-title\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__title\">The signal, before the noise.<\/h2>\n<p id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-copy\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__copy\">Start your day with the crypto stories moving markets, decoded by CryptoSlate\u2019s editors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__form-shell\">\n<p class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__form-heading\">One email. Everything that matters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-privacy\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__privacy\">Free to join. Unsubscribe any time.<\/p>\n<p> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-circle-xmark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> <span>Whoops, looks like there was a problem. Please try again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-circle-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> <span><strong>You\u2019re on the list.<\/strong> Your next Daily Brief is on its way.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The formal liquidation plan filed with the SEC was more specific: DEFI\u2019s net assets relative to its operating expenses made it unreasonable and imprudent to continue the fund over the long term.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast points to fund-specific scale pressure, not a retreat across the Bitcoin ETF category. BlackRock\u2019s iShares product page showed IBIT with $48.07 billion of net assets as of Aug. 5, more than 3,000 times DEFI\u2019s July 30 AUM snapshot. That comparison uses different dates, and one provisional inflow day does not establish a permanent winner-take-all trend. It does show how category-level demand can coexist with the closure of a small product whose sponsor concluded that its own economics no longer worked.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-556215\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-c2d2d530-409b-4a04-86ed-bace375544ba.png\" alt=\"DEFI\u2019s $14.7 million AUM compared with IBIT\u2019s $48.07 billion net assets, alongside provisional Aug. 18 ETF inflows of $189.3 million and $143.6 million to IBIT.\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-556215\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-c2d2d530-409b-4a04-86ed-bace375544ba.png\" alt=\"DEFI\u2019s $14.7 million AUM compared with IBIT\u2019s $48.07 billion net assets, alongside provisional Aug. 18 ETF inflows of $189.3 million and $143.6 million to IBIT.\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>What remaining holders receive next<\/h2>\n<p>Investors who kept DEFI past Aug. 17 no longer have NYSE Arca liquidity. They are instead due a cash distribution based on the net asset value of their shares during liquidation.<\/p>\n<p>The amount is not fixed at the $14.7 million AUM snapshot. Hashdex said it will reflect closing and transaction costs, along with Bitcoin price movements while the remaining holdings are sold. The sponsor warned that those movements could be substantial.<\/p>\n<p>The payment date is inconsistent across Hashdex\u2019s official documents. Its public announcement and the press release filed as an exhibit point to a distribution on or about Aug. 28. The body of the Aug. 3 SEC filing and the liquidation plan instead say on or about Aug. 24, while noting that dates may change.<\/p>\n<p>Hashdex\u2019s current public timetable therefore points to late August, with Aug. 28 as its shareholder-facing expectation rather than a guaranteed date.<\/p>\n<p>The closure applies to DEFI, the sole series of the Hashdex Commodities Trust. It is separate from the Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF, or NCIQ, and Hashdex said it continued to manage more than $200 million in products available to U.S. investors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>DeFi,ETF,Featured,Liquidations,Bitcoin,Blackrock,BTC,hashdexBitcoin,Blackrock,BTC,ETF,hashdex#Hashdex #liquidates #million #Bitcoin #ETF #IBIT #draws #million1787166193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hashdex\u2019s $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF is in liquidation after trading and creation orders ended, leaving remaining shareholders waiting for a cash payout rather than an exchange exit. The asset manager announced the closure on Aug. 3. The Hashdex Bitcoin ETF, known by its DEFI ticker, completed its last day of NYSE Arca trading on Aug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91,280,285,1213,231,6018,1886,6362,406],"class_list":["post-12098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethereum","tag-bitcoin","tag-blackrock","tag-btc","tag-draws","tag-etf","tag-hashdex","tag-ibit","tag-liquidates","tag-million"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hashdex liquidates $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $143.6 million - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DEFI holders await a late-August cash payout exposed to closing costs and Bitcoin prices after NYSE Arca trading ended Aug. 17.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hashdex liquidates $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $143.6 million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DEFI holders await a late-August cash payout exposed to closing costs and Bitcoin prices after NYSE Arca trading ended Aug. 17.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-19T19:03:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hashdex-etf-shredder.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u884c\u653f\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u884c\u653f\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098\",\"name\":\"Hashdex liquidates $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $143.6 million - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hashdex-etf-shredder.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-19T19:03:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/822778c5844e0d16d43dce6630f4f1bf\"},\"description\":\"DEFI holders await a late-August cash payout exposed to closing costs and Bitcoin prices after NYSE Arca trading ended Aug. 17.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hashdex-etf-shredder.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hashdex-etf-shredder.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12098#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hashdex liquidates $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $143.6 million\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/\",\"name\":\"Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\",\"description\":\"Latest Crypto &amp; 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