In an announcement on Wednesday, Grayscale Investments plans to add eight ETHE shares to each ETHE share held on the exchange. The Grayscale Ethereum Trust share stock split will be effected on December 17th on registered users’ shares at the close of business on Monday, December 14th. No action is required from the users to receive the split shares, “and they will not be required to surrender or exchange their shares in the Trust,” the statement reads.

Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust Fund closely resembles an Ethereum ETF allowing investors to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency. The fund is listed on the stock market with a share representing a fraction of ETH (plus a hefty premium in management fees) bought using the pooled investor’s cash and held in Grayscale’s vaults.

Currently, Grayscale’s ETHE fund has a total of 29.5 million issued and outstanding shares, with each share representing 0.09284789 ETH in the pool. Following the share split on Dec. 17, one share's total value will represent the ownership of 0.01031643 ETH, as the total number of issued and outstanding shares grows to 265.5 million Grayscale ETHE shares. This means that the total allocated value will not change once the stock split is complete.

According to the statement, one of the biggest reasons motivating the stock split is to make the share more affordable to retail investors. In 2020, the Grayscale Ethereum Trust share price has skyrocketed from $60 to $110 as the price of ETH reached a three year high of $635. This shows that a continued rise in ETH price could make it too expensive for retail investors to buy the share.

Grayscale has posted a successful year so far, growing their Bitcoin holdings to over 500,000 BTC, holding 2.7% of the total BTC supply.

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