CoinShares launches UCITS platform to tap Europe's €26.3 trillion fund market

CoinShares PLC unveiled a new UCITS platform on Tuesday, expanding into Europe's €26.3 trillion regulated fund ecosystem with its inaugural Bitcoin Mining UCITS ETF listing on Deutsche Börse Xetra.

"This is not simply the launch of another investment product. It marks our entry into the UCITS market with a platform that allows us to develop and launch regulated investment funds under one of the world's most widely recognised fund frameworks," Jean-Marie Mognetti, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of CoinShares, said.

The Jersey-based digital asset manager, listed on Nasdaq under CSHR, received authorization from the Central Bank of Ireland for the UCITS vehicle. The platform sits alongside CoinShares' existing ETP franchise, creating what the company described as a multi-engine asset management structure capable of generating recurring fee revenue across exchange-traded products, regulated investment funds, alternative strategies and on-chain asset management.

The strategic significance lies in the wrapper, not the product. Traditional debt-based crypto ETPs face strict allocation limits among institutional investors, whose mandates often restrict holdings to UCITS-compliant funds. CoinShares already serves many of these allocators through its existing digital asset products — the constraint was the vehicle, not the relationship. The UCITS platform removes that barrier, giving pension funds, insurance platforms and private banks a regulated format to gain crypto exposure.

The Bitcoin Mining UCITS ETF, which launched on July 16, begins trading on Xetra today. CoinShares expects to use the platform to launch additional digital asset and thematic strategies over time, with each subsequent fund drawing on the same authorized structure at progressively lower marginal cost. The upfront capital investment and regulatory groundwork are complete, the company said, positioning the platform to generate operating leverage as assets under management grow.

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