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21Shares Sui Staking ETF

Filed May 1, 2025.

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APPENDIX A

GLOSSARY OF DEFINED TERMS

In this Prospectus, each of the following terms have the meanings set forth after such term:

“1933 Act”: The Securities Act of 1933.

“1940 Act”: Investment Company Act of 1940.

“2022 Events”: Collectively, a reference to the following events: In the first half of 2022, Celsius Network, Voyager Digital Ltd., and Three Arrows Capital declaring bankruptcy; In November 2022, FTX halted customer withdrawals after corroborated rumors involving liquidity issues and likely insolvency; the resignation of FTX’s CEO and many of its affiliates filing for bankruptcy in the United States and abroad following which the U.S. Department of Justice brought criminal fraud and other charges; the SEC and CFTC bringing civil securities and commodities fraud charges against certain of FTX’s and its affiliates’ senior executives, including its former CEO, who was found guilty of these criminal charges; and, several other entities in the digital asset industry filed for bankruptcy following FTX’s bankruptcy filing, such as BlockFi Inc. and Gensis Global Capital, LLC.

“Accepted Asset”: A digital asset that is a fully reserve backed digital token, commonly referred to as a “stablecoin”, that seeks to peg its value to that of the quote asset, where the issuer operates a 1:1 redemption facility and solely holds reserve assets that are in line with the prevailing regulations enforced for government security money market funds in major jurisdictions such as the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union.

“Additional Trust Expenses”: Taxes and governmental charges, expenses and costs of any extraordinary services performed by the Sponsor (or any other service provider) on behalf of the Trust to protect the Trust or the interests of Shareholders, any indemnification of the SUI Custodian, Administrator or other agents, service providers or counter-parties of the Trust, the fees and expenses related to the listing, and extraordinary legal fees and expenses, including any legal fees and expenses incurred in connection with litigation, regulatory enforcement or investigation matters.

“Administrator”: [●].

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

“API”: Automatic Programming Interface.

“Article 8”: Article 8 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code.

“ASC”: Accounting Standards Codification.

“ASC 820-10”: Accounting Standards Codification 820-10, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures.

“AUL”: Authorized User List.

“Authorized Amount”: An amount to be determined, on a daily basis, based on the Lender’s sole discretion considering factors including, but not limited to, availability of financing and credit due diligence of the Trust.

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

“Available Balance”: The then-current amount available to the Trust to place orders.

“Basket”: A block of [●] Shares used by the Trust to issue or redeem Shares.

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

“Benchmark Provider”: CF Benchmarks Ltd.

“BMR”: UK Benchmarks Regulation.

“BSA”: U.S. Bank Secrecy Act.

“Bullshark”: The consensus mechanism of the Sui Network.

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

“Cash Custodian”: [●]

“Cash Custody Agreement”: An agreement entered into with the Trust and the Cash custodian stating that the Cash Custodian will establish and maintain cash account(s) for the trust, and, upon instructions from the Sponsor acting on behalf of the Trust, facilitate cash transfers and cash payments from the Trust’s account(s).

“CBDCs”: Central Bank Digital Currencies.

“CEA”: Commodity Exchange Act of 1936.

“CF Member”: A member of the CME CF Oversight Committee who is a representative of CF.

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

“CME Members”: Members of the CME CF Oversight Committee who are representatives of CME.

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

“Coinbase Insureds”: Coinbase Global and its subsidiaries.

“Coinbase Global”: Coinbase Global, Inc.

“Cold Vault Balance”: The substantial portion of the private keys associated with the Trust’s dost kept by the SUI Custodian in “cold storage” or similarly secure technology.

“Connected Trading Venue”: Third-party exchanges or other trading venues (including the trading venue operated by the Prime Broker).

“Constituent Exchanges”: An aggregation of executed trade flow of major SUI trading platforms.

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

“DeFi”: Decentralized financial services.

“DFPI”: California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

“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.

“DOL”: U.S. Department of Labor.

“DSTA”: The Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

“ECASH Act”: The Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware Act.

“ERISA”: Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

“Exchange”: [●]

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

“Expenses”: Any and all losses, claims, taxes, damages, reasonable expenses, and liabilities (including liabilities under State or federal securities laws) of any kind and nature whatsoever.

“FASB”: Financial Accounting Standards Board.

“FDIC”: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

“Financing fee”: Interest rates on Trade Credits.

“FinCEN”: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

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

“FIT for the 21 st Century Act”: Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21 st Century Act.

“FTX”: FTX Trading Ltd.

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

“Genesis”: Genesis Global Capital, LLC.

“ICO”: An initial coin offering.

“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 SUI and arise without any action of the Trust, or of the Sponsor on behalf of the Trust.

“Indemnified Person”: The Trustee or any officer, affiliate, director, employee, or agent of the Trustee.

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

“IRAs”: Individual retirement accounts.

“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.

“JOBS Act”: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

“Lender”: Coinbase Credit, Inc.

“Liquidating Trustee”: Such person as the majority in interest of the beneficial owners of the Trust may propose and approve that shall take full charge of the property of the Trust.

“Marketing Agent”: [●].

“Marketing Fee”: The fee payable to the Marketing Agent for services it provides to the Trust.

“McHenry Bill”: The Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act of 2023, as introduced by House Finance Committee Chair Patrick McHenry which would make it unlawful for any entity other than a permitted payment stablecoin issuer to issue a payment stablecoin.

“Mutually Capped Liabilities”: The SUI Custodian’s gross negligence, violation of its confidentiality, data protection and/or information security obligations, or violation of any law, rule or regulation with respect to the provision of its services.

“Mysten”: An independent consortium of blockchain software developers which contributes to the development of the Sui Network, formed as an outgrowth of Meta’s Diem project.

“Narwhal”: The memory pool mechanism of the Sui Network.

“NAV”: Net asset value of the Trust.

“NAV per share”: NAV per Share outstanding.

“NFT”: Non-fungible tokens.

“NBMMs”: Non-bank market makers.

“NYDFS”: The New York State Department of Financial Services.

“OFAC”: The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

“Plan Assets Regulation”: Regulation 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA.

“Plans”: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and/or Section 4975 of the Code.

“Post-Trade Financing Agreement”: An agreement with Coinbase Credit, Inc. pursuant to which the Trust may borrow _SUI or cash as trade credit the Lender on a short-term basis to avoid having to pre-fund the Trust’s Trading Balance.

“Pricing Benchmark”: The performance of the CME CF Sui — Dollar Reference Rate — New York Variant, adjusted for the Trust’s expenses and other liabilities.

“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.

“Relevant Coinbase Entities”: The Prime Broker and its parent, Coinbase Global, Inc. together with Coinbase Inc.

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

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

“Shareholders”: Holders of Shares.

“SIPC”: Securities Investor Protection Corporation.

“SOC”: Systems and Organizational Control.

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

“Sponsor Fee”: The feed paid by the Trust to the Sponsor as compensation for services performed under the Trust Agreement.

“Sponsor Indemnified Party”: The Sponsor and its shareholders, members, directors, officers, employees, affiliates and subsidiaries.

“Sponsor-paid Expense(s)”: Operating expenses assumed by the Sponsor including the Marketing Fee, fees to the Administrator, fees to the SUI Custodian, fees to the Transfer Agent, fees to the Trustee, the fees and expenses related to any future listing, trading or quotation of the Shares on any listing exchange or quotation system (including legal, marketing and audit fees and expenses), ordinary course legal fees and expenses but not litigation-related expenses, audit fees, regulatory fees, including, if applicable, any fees relating to the registration of the Shares under the 1933 Act or Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, printing and mailing costs, costs of maintaining the Sponsor’s website and applicable license fees.

“SUI”: SUI is the native digital asset of the Sui Network.

“SUI Account”: An account that holds the Trust’s SUI.

“SUI Counterparty”: A 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 SUI related to the Authorized Participant’s creation or redemption order.

“SUI Custodian”: Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC and any other person from time to time engaged to provide custodian, security or related services to the Trust’s SUI and cash assets pursuant to authority delegated by the Sponsor.

“Sui Foundation”: An independent nonprofit entity that supports research and development of open-source technology related to the Sui Network.

“Sui Network”: An online, distributed computing platform that operates on a peer-to-peer basis upon which SUI transactions are processed and settle d.

“SVB”: Silicon Valley Bank.

“TPS”: Transactions per second.

“Trade Credit”: SUI or cash the Trust may borrow the Lender on a short-term basis to avoid having to pre-fund the Trust’s Trading Balance.

“Trading Platform”: The Prime Broker’s execution platform.

“Transaction Parties”: The Sponsor, the Trustee, the SUI Custodian or any of their respective affiliates.

“Transfer Agent”: [●].

“Trust”: 21Shares Sui ETF.

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

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

“U.S. Treasury Department”: U.S. Department of the Treasury.

“You”: The owner or holder of Shares.

21SHARES SUI ETF

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PROSPECTUS

[●], 2025

Until 25 calendar days after the date of this Prospectus, all dealers that effect transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a Prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers’ obligation to deliver a Prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

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