iShares Ethereum Trust ETF

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To** **the Sponsor and Shareholders of iShares Ethereum Trust ETF

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying** statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, of iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (the “Trust”) as of December 31, 2024, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and cash flows for the period from May 21, 2024 (Date of Seeding) to December 31, 2024, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Trust as of December 31, 2024, and the results of its operations, changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the period from May 21, 2024 (Date of Seeding) to December 31, 2024 **in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Sponsor’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Trust’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the** **financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 5, 2025

We have served as the Trust’s auditor since 2024.