Why should I consider investing in Polkadot ETN?

Polkadot ETN offers exposure to a technologically advanced smart contract platform. By investing in Polkadot ETN, you can participate in the potential growth and adoption of Polkadot, which provides lower transaction costs, better speed, and easy interoperability compared to its competitors.

What are the main risk factors associated with investing in Polkadot ETN?

Investing in Polkadot ETN carries certain risks. These include the extreme volatility of the asset class, which may result in potential losses up to the total loss of the investment. Other risk factors include currency risk, technology risk, execution risk, adoption risk, governance risk, and regulatory uncertainties

Polkadot is a next-generation smart contract platform that facilitates the creation and operation of interconnected blockchains. It is designed to provide a scalable and secure infrastructure for building decentralized applications and services.

Polkadot ETN

VanEck Polkadot ETN

Next-generation blockchain platform
Growing rapidly in usage and market capitalisation
Easily traded on Deutsche Börse
Fully collateralised
1.5% total expense ratio
Regulated custodian

ETN-Details

Basis-Ticker: VDOT
ISIN: DE000A3GSUC5

TER: 1.50%
AUM: $4.2 M (as of 07-11-2024)

Lower risk

Typically lower reward

Higher risk

Typically higher reward

¹Source: VanEck: Polkadot’s market capitalisation has been growing fast.
Risk of a Polkadot ETN: You may lose money up to the total loss of your investment due to the extreme volatility of this asset class and the Main Risk Factors of a Polkadot ETN described below and additional risks described in the sales prospectus.

Why Invest in a Polkadot ETN?

Polkadot is a next-generation, highly-customizable smart contract platform that provides low cost and interoperability for entrepreneurs looking to build their own blockchains.

What is special about Polkadot?

Polkadot is a next-generation smart contract platform with technological efficiencies that make the establishment and operation of blockchains more practical in the commercial world. Put simply, it offers a compelling combination of interoperability, security, speed and low transaction costs. The result? An 85-90% decline in the cost and effort required to build a new blockchain.

Since launch in May 2020, Polkadot’s market capitalisation has soared, with daily transactions approaching the level of Bitcoin’s. The number of parachains (independent blockchains) linked to Polkadot is also growing quickly, with hundreds of independent projects across decentralized finance, gaming & NFTs.

Interoperability

Security

Faster Development

Explaining the Polkadot ETN

As the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem becomes increasingly congested due to the volume of traffic, a new generation of smart contract platforms has arrived, with the potential to take blockchain’s potential to the next level.

Polkadot’s "proof-of-stake", community-governed blockchain protocol has the key advantage of interoperability. This allows developers to build blockchains quickly and cheaply.

As Polkadot has quickly become a thriving ecosystem of parachains (blockchains), the demand for DOT has increased.

Polkadot ETN tracks the value of DOT and uses the MarketVector^™ Polkadot VWAP Close Index for the calculation of its NAV.

Key Documents and Links

Fact sheet

KID

Prospectus

Product page

Main Risk Factors of a Polkadot ETN

Despite all the hype, digital assets are a highly risky investment. Below are key risk factors that need to be considered before making an investment in a Polkadot ETN.

The trading prices of many digital assets have experienced extreme volatility in recent periods and may well continue to do so. Digital assets were only introduced within the past decade and regulatory clarity remains elusive in many jurisdictions. Digital assets' value depends on such regulation remaining favorable, as well with the technological capabilities, the development of protocol networks, competition from other digital asset networks and from forks. Volatility can be strongly amplified by transactions from speculative investors, hedge funds and other large investors. You may experience losses if you need to sell your Shares at a time when the price of the underlying digital asset is lower than it was when you made your prior investment. Even if you are able to hold Shares for the long-term, your Shares may never generate a profit. Thus, an investment in a Polkadot ETN can lose money.

If the currency of the Product differs from the currency you invest in, your final return depends on the exchange rate between your investment currency and the currency of the Product. This is one of the factors to take into account when making an investment in a Polkadot ETN.

Trading venues and systems used by market participants to trade the Digital Asset may be subject to hacking and could result in loss of the Product. That is another risk factor to consider when investing in a Polkadot ETN.

Polkadot’s parachain ecosystem is still in its early stages and has not yet been fully deployed. That is one of the risk factors to consider before investing in a Polkadot ETN.

If the parachain model doesn’t attract developers to build dApps and other blockchain projects, then DOT token price will likely struggle. That is a factor to take into account when investing in a Polkadot ETN.

While Polkadot’s on-chain governance model should help the protocol react to user requests & preferences, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a nascent structure with many legal & operational uncertainties. This is a further risk factor to consider before investing in a Polkadot ETN.

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