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New Listings: A Company That Exists to Hold a Token Just Got a Leveraged Alter Ego

Somewhere in a product development meeting, someone looked at a firm whose entire balance sheet is a cryptocurrency and decided the real problem was insufficient risk.

 

Defiance Daily Target 2X Long PURR (PUR, NYSE)

PUR gives you two times the daily move of Hyperliquid Strategies, a digital asset treasury company whose whole reason for existing is to hold, stake, and compound a single token. The underlying stock has swung from roughly three dollars to north of eleven dollars within a matter of months, tracking the token's own equally violent ride.

So the chain of exposure now runs: a token, wrapped in a company that holds the token, wrapped in a leveraged daily ETF that resets every night. Each layer promises to make the last one more exciting. None of them promise to make it less confusing.


First Trust Bloomberg Space Economy ETF (FSPC, NYSE)

Space, as an investable theme, has graduated from novelty to full product category, complete with its own index families and, now, its own buzzword-laden wrapper. Rockets, satellites, and orbital infrastructure, bundled into a single ticker just as the sector rides a wave of high profile listings and launch headlines.

It is a coherent thesis dressed in an irresistible name. Whether the fund can out-launch its own marketing is, as ever, a separate question.


FT Vest Silver Strategy and Target Income ETF (SLVY, NYSE)

Silver spent recent months putting on one of the great parabolic moves in the metal's history, then gave back nearly half of it just as quickly. Into that exact moment of whiplash arrives a fund whose job is to sell options against the metal and hand the premium back to you as monthly income.

Selling insurance on an asset that just demonstrated it can move violently in both directions is either extremely well timed or completely indifferent to timing. I suspect the fund does not care which.


And then, the Amplify S&P 500 Dividend Driver ETF (DRVR, NYSE)

No leverage, no token, no orbital theme. Just a basket of dividend paying S&P 500 companies, doing the plain job of collecting cash flow from businesses that already exist and already make money.

Bernie Thurston

Bernie Thurston is the founder and CEO of Ultumus, a leading provider of ETF and index data, calculation, and workflow solutions. With over 20 years of experience in financial technology, Bernie has been at the forefront of index and ETF innovation since 2003. His finance career began at Markit, where as Managing Director for Equities he designed and developed products for index and ETF composition and dividend forecasting from 2003 to 2011. He then founded and led DeltaOne Solutions as Managing Director, building it into a global provider of index and ETF trading data and technology services. The company managed over 100,000 multi-asset class products before being acquired by Markit in 2015. Following the acquisition, while working for an ETF issuer, Bernie identified fundamental issues in how index and ETF data was represented across the industry. This led him to found Ultumus in 2016, building solutions for ETF primary market operations. Under his leadership, Ultumus has grown into a market leader serving major financial institutions globally, with its ETF Order Management System (OMS) supporting create and redeem workflows worldwide and its PCF platform calculating and distributing portfolio composition files for ETF issuers across every major market. Bernie sold Ultumus to SIX Group in 2021, where it continues to expand across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Known for building lasting teams and leveraging cutting-edge technology, Bernie is focused on establishing Ultumus as the backbone of the global index and ETF industry through standardisation and automation.

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