Significant Accounting Policies | 2. Significant Accounting Policies Basis of Presentation The financial statements are expressed in U.S. dollars and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (" U.S. GAAP "). The Trust is an investment company and follows the specialized accounting and reporting guidance in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (" FASB ") Accounting Standards Codification (" ASC " or " Codification ") Topic 946, Financial Services - Investment Companies. Pursuant to the Statement of Cash Flows Topic of the Codification, the Trust qualifies for an exemption from the requirement to provide a statement of cash flows and has elected not to provide a statement of cash flows. Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Cash Cash represents cash deposits held at financial institutions and Crypto Asset exchanges. Cash in a bank deposit account, at times, may exceed U.S. federally insured limits. The Trust has not experienced any losses in such accounts and does not believe it is exposed to any significant credit risk on such bank deposits. Investments and Valuation The Trust’s investments in Crypto Assets are stated at fair value. For a further discussion of the Trust’s calculations of valuation, please see “— Calculation of Valuation ” below. Crypto Assets are generally valued using prices as reported on reputable and liquid exchanges and may involve utilizing an average of bid and ask quotes using closing prices provided by such exchanges as of the date and time of determination ("Calculation of Valuation" below). Factors such as the recent stability of an exchange, current liquidity of an exchange, and recent price activity of an exchange will be considered as to the determination of which exchanges to utilize. The time used is 4:00 pm ET which corresponds to 20:00 UTC during Daylight Savings Time and 21:00 UTC during non-Daylight Savings Time. The Sponsor’s Valuation Policy provides a listing of preferred exchanges. While some Crypto Assets are valued based on prices reported in the public markets, other Crypto Assets may be more thinly-traded or subject to irregular trading activity. Determinations on the value of certain Crypto Assets, and how to value such assets as to which limited prices or quotations are available, are based on the Sponsor’s recommendations or instructions. Crypto Asset transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from Crypto Asset transactions are determined using the identified cost method. Any change in net unrealized gain or loss is reported in the statement of operations. Commissions and other trading fees are reflected as an adjustment to cost or proceeds at the time of the transaction. The Trust intermittently receives Airdrops of new Crypto Assets. The use of Airdrops is generally to promote the launch and use of new Crypto Assets by providing a small amount of the new Crypto Assets to the private wallets or exchange accounts of holders of existing related Crypto Assets. Airdropped Crypto Assets can have substantially different Blockchain technology that has no relation to any existing Crypto Asset, and many Airdrops may be without value. The Trust will only record receipt of airdropped Crypto Assets if when received, the airdropped Crypto Assets have value. Crypto Assets received from Airdrops have no cost basis and the Trust recognizes other income equal to the fair value of the new Crypto Asset received. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2023, the Trust was eligible for a Flare (FLR) Airdrop. The Airdrop was based on the Trust’s XRP holding in its custody vault as of December 12, 2020. The Trust elected to participate in the Airdrop and on April 17th, 2023, Other income resulting from the Airdrop was booked into the Fund’s assets. At the time of the Airdrop, the result was a positive NAV increase of 0.013 % bps, less than $ 0.00 NAV increase and $ 68,436 net asset increase to the Trust. On April 18, 2023, the Trust sold the FLR and raised USD resulting in a minor loss to the Trust. The USD was used to purchase other assets in the Trust’s portfolio, since FLR was not part of the Index of the Trust. The impact of this Airdrop can be seen within the Statement of Operations under Other income and Net realized gain (loss) from Crypto Assets. There were no Airdrops recognized or unrecognized during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. Calculation of Valuation For all periods through the quarterly period ended June 30, 2021, the NAV Per Share, the NAV of the Trust, and the fair valuations for each Portfolio Crypto Asset were calculated by the Trust’s Administrator in reliance on the fair value of each Portfolio Crypto Asset based on a blended average approach for calculating the price of a Crypto Asset (the " Blended Bitwise Crypto Asset Price "), which the Sponsor was responsible for calculating. The Sponsor provided this price to the Administrator, and the Administrator used this price (multiplied by the Trust’s holdings) for each asset to determine the fair value of the Trust’s assets. The Administrator then subtracted the Trust’s liabilities to determine the Trust’s NAV. The Administrator then divided this value by the Trust’s shares outstanding in order to determine the NAV per share. As a result of the Sponsor’s responsibility in this regard, any errors, discontinuance, or changes in such valuation calculations may have had an adverse effect on the value of the Shares. The Sponsor instituted this valuation policy in order to generate fair value estimates because it determined that such policy was in the best interest of shareholders, as it would avoid misstatements in valuation of the assets potentially arising from deviations in pricing across the Crypto Asset market, and because of the fragmented nature of the Crypto Asset trading ecosystem. As a result, management applied this valuation technique which it determined to be appropriate given the circumstances. Following the filing of its Form 10, the Sponsor conducted a complete review of its process for determining fair valuation in the presentation of its financial statements and calculation of NAV. In this process, the Sponsor evaluated whether or not the identification of a principal market for each of the Trust’s assets for valuation purposes, during each period for which the Trust created and had audited its financial statements, would have created a material difference in the Trust’s estimated fair value or assets. In conjunction, the Sponsor determined to undertake a change in valuation policy for the fair valuation of Crypto Assets held in the Trust. As a result, the Sponsor developed a revised process for the determination of a principal market for each asset based on this consideration and disclosed and implemented this change in valuation policy and accounting policy prior to the creation of financial statements for the period ending September 30, 2021. The Blended Bitwise Crypto Asset Price is no longer used for any calculations by the Trust, including NAV Per Share, NAV of the Trust or fair valuations for any Portfolio Crypto Asset. Effective August 31, 2021, the process that the Sponsor developed for identifying a principal market, as described in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 820-10, which outlines the application of fair value accounting, was to begin by identifying publicly available, well established and reputable Crypto Asset exchanges selected by the Sponsor and its affiliates in their sole discretion, and then calculating, on each valuation period, the highest volume exchange during the 60 minutes prior to 4:00 pm ET for each asset. In evaluating the markets that could be considered principal markets, the Trust considered whether or not the specific markets were accessible to the Trust, either directly or through an intermediary, at the end of each period. In conducting the review following the filing of its Form 10, the Sponsor also retroactively applied this process for identifying a principal market to the prior periods of reported financial results, including the fiscal years ended 2018, 2019 and 2020, to determine whether or not any material or significant differences would have resulted from the application of a different valuation policy in the creation of each financial statement (e.g., comparing the fair value prices determined using the existing and previous valuation methodology to the hypothetical fair value prices using an identified principal market for each asset) and to consider whether management’s use of the previous valuation policy would have created any material departures from a valuation policy of identifying a principal market. The Sponsor’s results conclude that there were no material or significant differences in valuation or to the financial statements as previously presented when using the policy of identifying a principal market described above as compared to the previous valuation methodology for any period since the Trust commenced operations. Included within the net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) within the Trust's Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2021 is $ 118,351 , representing the immaterial difference in the Trust's fair market value of Crypto Assets at the beginning of the year determined using the Blended Bitwise Crypto Asset Price and the Principal Market Price. The following provides an overview of the Principal Market and the Principal Market Prices for Portfolio Crypto Assets that comprised the majority of the Trust’s assets for the year ended December 31, 2023. Year Ended December 31, 2023 Asset Principal Market Price Principal BTC $ 42,014.39 Coinbase ETH $ 2,304.66 Coinbase SOL $ 104.82 Coinbase XRP $ 0.62 Coinbase ADA $ 0.60 Coinbase AVAX $ 40.19 Coinbase DOT $ 8.24 Coinbase MATIC $ 0.97 Coinbase LINK $ 15.52 Coinbase LTC $ 74.46 Coinbase |