CoinShares closes buy of US bitcoin ETF issuer’s fund division

Europe-focused investment firm is set to expand its US asset management business after taking over ETFs with $530 million in combined assets

article-image

CoinShares and Adobe Stock modified by Blockworks

share

CoinShares completed its takeover of Valkyrie’s fund business Tuesday as part of its bid to expand its asset management footprint in the US.

Specifically, the Europe-focused investment company bought the Tennessee-based crypto asset manager’s actively managed ETF business. Details of the deal were not disclosed.

CoinShares said it had secured an option to buy Valkyrie’s fund division in November. That option was active until March 31, 2024.

With the purchase, CoinShares is set to gain roughly $530 million of assets under management across four funds. 

This includes one of the 10 US spot bitcoin ETFs — the Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund (BRRR) — as well as the firm’s Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI); its Bitcoin and Ether Strategy ETF (BTF); and the Valkyrie Bitcoin Futures Leveraged Strategy ETF (BTFX).   

Read more: CoinShares to take over Valkyrie now that spot bitcoin ETF is live

CoinShares aims to rebrand the four Valkyrie funds by the summer, the company said in a Tuesday news release.

CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti said in a statement that the Valkyrie acquisition is a step toward moving deeper into the US after a decade of focusing on European markets.  

“It broadens our product offerings, strengthens our innovation capacity and increases by a factor of 15 our total addressable market,” Mognetti added.

Valkyrie is perhaps best known for being one of the issuers to gain Securities and Exchange Commission approval in January to launch a spot bitcoin ETF.  

Though among the smaller funds in the segment, BRRR has notched net inflows of $308 million since launching on Jan. 11, according to BitMEX Research. The fund had eclipsed $400 million in assets at market close on Monday, the data shows.  

Valkyrie was second to the US market — behind ProShares — with an ETF that invested in bitcoin futures contracts, launching that offering in October 2021. That fund started to also give investors exposure to ether futures contracts last October.   

More recently, the company launched its Bitcoin Futures Leveraged Strategy ETF last month.


Get the news in your inbox. Explore Blockworks newsletters:

  • Blockworks Daily: The newsletter that helps thousands of investors understand crypto and the markets, by Byron Gilliam.
  • Empire: Start your morning with the top news and analysis to inform your day in crypto.
  • Forward Guidance: Reporting and analysis on the growing intersection of crypto and macroeconomics, policy and finance.
  • 0xResearch: Alpha directly in your inbox. Market highlights, data, degen trade ideas, governance updates, token performance and more.
  • Lightspeed: Built for Solana investors, developers and community members. The latest from one of crypto’s hottest networks.
  • The Drop: For crypto collectors and traders, covering apps, games, memes and more.
Tags

Upcoming Events

Industry City | Brooklyn, NY

TUES - THURS, JUNE 24 - 26, 2025

Permissionless IV serves as the definitive gathering for crypto’s technical founders, developers, and builders to come together and create the future.If you’re ready to shape the future of crypto, Permissionless IV is where it happens.

Old Billingsgate

Mon - Wed, October 13 - 15, 2025

Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) will feature conversations between the builders, allocators, and legislators who will shape the trajectory of the digital asset ecosystem in the US and abroad.

recent research

Research Report Templates (5).png

Research

Outside of stablecoins, the value of tokenized assets sits below $20B, dominated by the following asset classes: private credit, US Treasuries, commodities, institutional alternative funds, stocks, non-US government debt, and corporate bonds. In the coming months, we see the greatest opportunities in the tokenization of illiquid markets, particularly private equity. However, the successful integration of offchain assets into blockchain ecosystems relies heavily on clear and consistent regulatory frameworks, with purpose-built infrastructure to support it.

article-image

Coinbase Asset Management and One River CEO Eric Peters explains why crypto’s not yet focused on fundamentals

article-image

Over the past 24 hours, PumpSwap’s largest liquidity pool by volume contains tokens with the tickers DOGEMOON and ballscoin

article-image

10T Holdings’ Dan Tapiero predicts crypto listings on exchanges are a “mini step” for value moving onchain

article-image

The S&P 500 was mostly flat after a month of losses, and the Nasdaq has been slowly gaining

article-image

Movement Labs is once again at the core of some criticism after it declined to name a market maker offboarded by Binance

article-image

Experts discuss the future of crypto ETFs as Trump puts “money where his mouth is”