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21Shares Launch­es First DeFi ETP in Europe and Lay­er 1 Index ETP

  • With the 21Shares DeFi 10 Infra­struc­ture ETP, 21Shares is the first provider in Europe to launch an ETP based on a DeFi index.
  • The 21Shares Lay­er 1 ETP invests exclu­sive­ly in Lay­er 1 blockchains, which rep­re­sent the tech­ni­cal basis of the DeFi uni­verse and the entire cryp­to industry.

ZURICH, Switzer­land, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — 21Shares AG (“21Shares”), a Swiss-based issuer of cryp­to Exchange Trad­ed Prod­ucts (ETPs), today announces the launch of the new 21Shares Lay­er 1 and 21Shares DeFi 10 Infra­struc­ture ETPs on SIX Swiss and BX Swiss Exchange respec­tive­ly. Both of these new prod­ucts allow investors to invest in the ser­vices and tech­ni­cal fun­da­men­tals of the DeFi industry.

21Shares Lay­er 1 ETP offers the­mat­ic expo­sure to blockchain foundations

The 21Shares Lay­er 1 ETP (sym­bol: LAY1) is list­ed on SIX Swiss Exchange as of today, May 12, 2022, and offers investors tar­get­ed expo­sure to the blockchains that form the tech­ni­cal foun­da­tion of the DeFi uni­verse. To this end, LAY1 tracks an index which was cus­tom-tai­lored by index provider Vin­ter and invests in an index that includes the fiv largest Lay­er 1 blockchains — with a max­i­mum weight­ing of 30 per­cent per blockchain. Rebal­anc­ing is con­duct­ed on a quar­ter­ly basis.

21Shares DeFi 10 Infra­struc­ture ETP: dApps for the future of finance

The 21Shares DeFi 10 Infra­struc­ture ETP (sym­bol: DEFII) is planned to be list­ed on BX Swiss Exchange on May 18, 2022. It is designed to pro­vide investors tar­get­ed expo­sure to the emerg­ing decen­tral­ized finan­cial ser­vices (DeFi) indus­try root­ed in blockchain tech­nol­o­gy, and tracks the results of a cus­tomized index also cre­at­ed by Vin­ter. This index tracks a com­bi­na­tion of the price per­for­mance of decen­tral­ized DeFi appli­ca­tions (“dApps”) and Lay­er 1 blockchains, which form the tech­no­log­i­cal basis of DeFi. Each com­pris­es 50 per­cent of the over­all index. The assets in both cat­e­gories are ranked by mar­ket cap­i­tal­iza­tion and reweight­ed quarterly.

Ophe­lia Sny­der, Co-founder and Pres­i­dent of 21Shares, comments:

“Our finan­cial sys­tem is at the begin­ning of a par­a­digm shift. A pletho­ra of new blockchain-based appli­ca­tions around DeFi and Web3 are already under devel­op­ment and mak­ing enor­mous progress. They are the com­po­nents of a com­plete­ly new, demo­c­ra­t­ic and inclu­sive finan­cial sys­tem. With our new the­mat­ic cryp­to ETPs, we’re pro­vid­ing investors with two broad­ly diver­si­fied invest­ment vehi­cles at the ide­al time to par­tic­i­pate in this revolution.”

About 21Shares:

21Shares takes inno­va­tion to the next lev­el with the largest suite of cryp­tocur­ren­cy exchange-trad­ed prod­ucts (ETPs) in the world. In 2018 it pio­neered the world’s first cryp­tocur­ren­cy index list­ing on the SIX Swiss Exchange, and it con­tin­ues pow­er­ing its cryp­tocur­ren­cy fran­chise with cut­ting-edge research and ground­break­ing approach­es to prod­uct strat­e­gy. 21Shares aims to pro­vide all investors with an easy, secure and reg­u­lat­ed way to buy, sell and short cryp­tocur­ren­cy through exist­ing bank and bro­ker­age accounts. 21Shares is a Swiss com­pa­ny reg­is­tered in Zug, Switzer­land with offices in Zurich and New York City. For more infor­ma­tion, please vis­it www.21shares.com.

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Arielle Sobel, Head of Glob­al Communications

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