Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF

GLOSSARY OF DEFINED TERMS

“Advisers Act”: The Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

“1933 Act”: The Securities Act of 1933.

“1940 Act”: Investment Company Act of 1940.

“Administrator”: The Bank of New York Mellon.

“Authorized Participant”: One that purchases or redeems Baskets from or to the Trust.

“Basket”: A block of 5,000 Shares used by the Trust to issue or redeem Shares.

“Basket Deposit”: The total deposit required to create each Basket.

“Bitcoin”: Is a system for decentralized digital value exchange that is designed to enable units of bitcoin to be transferred across borders without the need for currency conversion. Bitcoin is not legal tender. The supply of bitcoin is not determined by a central government, but rather by an open-source software program that limits both the total amount of bitcoin that will be produced and the rate at which it is released into the network. The responsibility for maintaining the official ledger of who owns what bitcoin and for validating new bitcoin transactions is not entrusted to any single central entity. Instead, it is distributed among the network’s participants.

“Bitcoin Counterparty”: Designated third party, who is not an Authorized Participant but who may be an affiliate of an Authorized Participant, or the Prime Broker or Lender, as applicable, with whom the Sponsor has entered into an agreement on behalf of the Trust, that will, acting as a counterparty, deliver, receive or convert to U.S. dollars the bitcoin related to the Authorized Participant’s creation or redemption order.

“Bitcoin Custodian”: Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC.

“Blockchain (or Bitcoin blockchain)”: the public transaction ledger of the Bitcoin network on which miners or mining pools solve algorithmic equations allowing them to add records of recent transactions (called “blocks”) to the chain of transactions in exchange for an award of bitcoin from the Bitcoin network and the payment of transaction fees, if any, from users whose transactions are recorded in the block being added.

“Business Day”: Any day other than a day when the Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange is closed for regular trading.

“CEA”: Commodity Exchange Act of 1936.

“CFTC”: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and options in the United States.

“Code”: Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“DTC”: The Depository Trust Company. DTC will act as the securities depository for the Shares.

“DTC Participant”: An entity that has an account with DTC.

“Exchange”: Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.

“Exchange Act”: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“FINRA”: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers.

“GAAP”: U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

“Indirect Participants”: Banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a DTC Participant, either directly or indirectly.

“Incidental Rights”: Rights to acquire, or otherwise establish dominion and control over, any virtual currency or other asset or right, which rights are incident to the Trust’s ownership of bitcoin and arise without any action of the Trust, or of the Sponsor or Sub-Adviser on behalf of the Trust.

“IRS”: U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

“IR Virtual Currency”: Virtual currency tokens, or other assets or rights, acquired by the Trust through the exercise (subject to the applicable provisions of the Trust Agreement) of any Incidental Right.

“Lender”: Coinbase Credit, Inc.

“Marketing Agent”: Foreside Global Services, LLC.

“NAV”: Net asset value of the Trust.

“NAV per Share”: Net asset value of the Trust per Share.

“NFA”: National Futures Association.

“Prime Broker”: Coinbase, Inc.

“Principal Market NAV”: Net asset value of the Trust determined on a GAAP basis.

“Principal Market NAV per Share”: Net asset value of the Trust per Share determined on a GAAP basis.

“Redemption Order Date”: The date a redemption order is received in satisfactory form by the Marketing Agent.

“Register”: The record of all shareholders and holders of the Shares in certificated form kept by the Administrator.

“SEC”: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Seed Capital Investor”: 21Shares US LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Seed Creation Baskets”: Shares of the Trust purchased by the Seed Capital Investor.

“Shares”: Common shares representing fractional undivided beneficial interests in the Trust.

“Shareholders”: Holders of Shares.

“Sponsor”: 21Shares US LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Sub-Adviser”: ARK Investment Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Transfer Agent”: The Bank of New York Mellon.

“Trust”: ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF.

“Trust Agreement”: Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF.

“Trustee”: Delaware Trust Company, a Delaware trust company.

“You”: The owner or holder of Shares.