Overview
- BAVA, which began trading Wednesday on the NYSE, holds Avalanche’s AVAX and stakes the tokens through Bitwise Onchain Solutions to target about 5.4% in annual rewards.
- The fund plans to stake roughly 70% of its AVAX and keep about 30% in cash and tokens for liquidity, passing net staking payouts to shareholders as periodic income.
- Staking in this context means locking tokens to help run the Avalanche network in exchange for new AVAX, letting brokerage investors earn those rewards without managing wallets or validators.
- Bitwise set a 0.34% annual fee and waived it to 0% for the first month on the first $500 million in assets, aiming to seed early adoption.
- Early trading was modest but active as a Bloomberg analyst reported about $2.5 million in assets at launch and over $400,000 in volume in the first 90 minutes, and rivals are watching to see if this model becomes a template for single‑asset crypto funds.