Grayscale Ethereum Staking Mini ETF marks one year of staking payouts

A year ago, Grayscale’s Ethereum Mini ETF was a fairly simple product: you bought shares, and those shares tracked Ether. Then it started putting that Ether to work. According to Grayscale, the Ethereum Staking Mini ETF (ticker: ETH) has distributed over $33.5 million in staking rewards over the past year. The firm also says the fund outperformed other Ether exchange-traded products and averaged $5.5 million in daily trading volume during that stretch. The numbers behind the first staking year Grayscale enabled staking for the fund in October 2025. Research compiled on the product describes it as a pioneer among US-listed spot Ether ETPs in offering this feature. As of early October 2026, the fund had reported approximately $33.9 million in net staking rewards. That figure reflects a gross staking yield of about 2.67%. Around 80.4% of fund assets are currently staked, leaving roughly a fifth of the holdings sitting unstaked. The fund charges a management fee of 0.15%. The gross staking yield comfortably exceeds that fee. Rewards are distributed monthly. So rather than a lump sum at year’s end, shareholders get a recurring trickle of staking income. The fund’s assets under managemen...