On October 2, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cleared Cboe BZX to list and trade six triple-leveraged exchange-traded products, including the first 3x Bitcoin and 3x Ether ETPs available in the United States. The approval order, Release No. 34-106577, was signed by the Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets under delegated authority. It is the first time U.S. regulators have approved triple-leveraged Bitcoin and Ether products, bundled in a single order with traditional commodity funds.
What the SEC approved
Each fund is a series of the VS Trust, whose sponsor is Volatility Shares LLC; Wilmington Trust serves as sole trustee and U.S. Bank as custodian. The six funds: 3x Gold, 3x Silver, 3x Bitcoin, 3x Ether, 3x Crude Oil, and 3x Natural Gas. They list under BZX Rule 14.11(e)(4), which governs commodity-based trust shares. Cboe filed the proposed rule change on August 10 and it was published for comment on August 19; the Commission received no comments. The Commission found the proposal consistent with Section 6(b)(5) of the Exchange Act, citing safeguards to promote fair disclosure, prevent trading without adequate transparency, and protect material nonpublic information.
How the funds will work
Despite the “ETF” name, these are exchange-traded products (commodity-based trust shares), not 1940 Act funds. Each seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, equal to three times the daily performance of its reference commodity, measured against a benchmark of first- and second-month futures contracts. The funds invest in those futures alongside cash and cash equivalents that serve as collateral or margin. If those contracts become unavailable, the funds may hold later-dated futures, benchmark-linked ETFs and ETPs, or listed options. Because the funds reset daily, returns over longer holding periods can diverge from three times the commodity’s cumulative move.
Trading still waits on registration
Approving the listing rule does not by itself start trading; the shares must still be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and no launch date has been set. The move follows other SEC crypto-ETP rulemaking, including the agency’s approval of a Nasdaq Texas rule that added a digital-commodity definition to crypto ETPs. It also lands amid strong institutional demand for fund exposure, with spot Ethereum ETFs recently logging a third straight week of inflows.
