VanEck Digital Assets, LLC has filed a Form RW with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requesting withdrawal of the registration statement for its VanEck Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, ci
VanEck Digital Assets, LLC has filed a Form RW with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requesting withdrawal of the registration statement for its VanEck Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, citing its decision not to proceed with the planned distribution of the trust's shares. The filing, submitted on October 14, 2026, closes out File No. 333-290918 before it ever became effective.
VanEck Digital Assets invoked Securities Act Rule 477 to pull the Form S-1 it originally submitted on October 16, 2025. The Form RW states explicitly that the registration statement was never declared effective and that no securities were issued, sold, or distributed under it. No preliminary prospectus was circulated to potential investors at any point during the roughly 12-month window the filing was pending. For related coverage, see 数据：VanEck ETF 钱包通过 Gemini 出售约 1076 万美元 BTC 和 ETH.
Rule 477 allows a registrant to withdraw a registration statement before it becomes effective, provided the SEC consents. The filed Form RW constitutes VanEck's request for that consent; it does not, by itself, represent an SEC order granting withdrawal. For related coverage, see Derive V3 Brings kHYPE to Ethereum With Kinetiq.
VanEck's stated ground for the withdrawal is that the sponsor does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution of the trust's shares. The filing does not identify commercial, regulatory, or market-structure reasons for that decision. VanEck has been active across multiple digital asset registration efforts; earlier this year the firm updated its BNB ETF filing to add a staking objective, signaling continued engagement with yield-bearing crypto structures in other product lines. For related coverage, see VanEck Says Bitcoin Could Be Materially Higher in a Year.
The proposed trust's investment objective, as described in the original S-1 prospectus, was to reflect the price performance of Lido's stETH token less operating expenses. The prospectus described stETH as a liquid staking token representing deposited ETH plus accrued staking rewards, a structure that sits within the broader liquid staking token (LST) category of restaking-adjacent DeFi primitives. With the S-1 never declared effective and no shares ever issued, investors have no outstanding exposure to unwind. For related coverage, see Report Says Early Solana Holder Lost 181,000 SOL in Theft as Funds Moved to Ethereum.
Ethereum was quoted at $2,419.62, down 3.13% over 24 hours, at the time of the market snapshot accompanying this report.
Ethereum spot price $2,419.62 Supplied market snapshot: ETH down 3.13% over 24 hours. Market context only.The withdrawal is specific to this Lido stETH-based product and does not affect VanEck's other digital asset registrations. Any future attempt to revive a similar stETH-tracking wrapper would require a fresh S-1 filing and a new SEC review cycle. For Lido's stETH liquidity and the broader LST market, the practical impact is limited given the product never reached the distribution stage where institutional capital would have been allocated.
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