Based on the newest SEC disclosure by the Grayscale Ethereum Belief, or ETHE, the approaching transition of Ethereum (ETH) to the proof-of-stake consensus represents a danger that would have a “materials adversarial impact” on its shares.

The ETHE lately filed an software with the regulator to develop into an SEC-reporting firm. Firms of this nature are required to debate the chance elements that will have an adversarial influence on the their efficiency inside all quarterly and annual reviews.

One part, meant to stipulate potential dangers for the fund’s future, outlines that the improve to ETH 2.0 could current sure difficulties for traders:

“A digital asset community’s consensus mechanism is a cloth side of its supply code, and any failure to correctly implement such a change might have a cloth adversarial impact on the worth of ETH and the worth of the Shares.”

The report mentions that the shortcoming to correctly implement these modifications might lead to a short lived or everlasting fork, which might have a unfavorable influence on ETHE shares.

ETHE belongings beneath administration. Supply: Digital Assets Data.

It seems that up to now, the approaching improve has not detracted from traders’ curiosity within the fund. Quite the opposite, the Belief’s belongings beneath administration have elevated exponentially previously 12 months, from $67 million to over $800 million at time of publication. Whereas the value of ETH has roughly doubled throughout this timeframe, ETHE holdings have elevated greater than tenfold.