VanEck Digital Transformation ETF
$21.30−0.42 (−1.93%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.52%
- Fund size
- $495M
- 1Y return
- −3.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.00%
- Holdings
- 24
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $21.52
- 52W range
The ETF.net DAPP Grade
Score 64 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 75Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 11Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 35Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 76Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 54Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on DAPP
BCrypto exposure without the crypto. DAPP holds the equities of the digital-asset economy (exchanges, miners, infrastructure) and by its own mandate never buys a coin, a coin derivative, or an ICO.
Before fees and expenses, the Fund seeks to follow the price and yield performance of the MVIS Global Digital Assets Equity Index, which is designed to represent companies participating in digital-asset economies.
Why people hold it
- A clean split of the trade: you own the businesses built around digital assets, while the fund is barred from holding the assets themselves or derivatives on them.money.usnews.comaaii.com
- 0.52% expense ratio, a shade under the typical global thematic fund, for a rules-based index rather than a manager's hunches.
- One of the more actively traded names in its thematic peer group, which generally means less bid-ask friction on the way in and out.
- Launched in 2021, early to the crypto-equity shelf, and built on VanEck's own MVIS Global Digital Assets Equity Index.
Worth knowing
- Non-diversified by design and concentrated in miners and exchanges, so a single company's stumble can move the whole fund.money.usnews.comaaii.com
- These companies live off digital-asset activity, so the ride tends to track the crypto cycle even though no coins are held.
- Not an income holding: nothing was paid out over the past year, so the whole case rests on share prices.
DAPP Holdings
- Other
- 24
- 66%
- XYZ
Sectors
- Financials62.1%
- Technology33.1%
- Consumer Discr.4.8%
Geography
- United States80.09%
- Australia6.30%
- Singapore4.47%
- Cayman Islands4.13%
- Japan3.31%
- Hong Kong1.70%
DAPP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DAPP$9,658
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | DAPP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +31.4% |
| 1 month | +11.5% |
| 3 months | −0.7% |
| 1 year | −3.4% |
| 3 years | +61.0% |
| 5 years | −0.2% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | DAPP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +31.4% | |
| 2025 | +15.0% | |
| 2024 | +45.1% | |
| 2023 | +285.0% | |
| 2022 | −85.6% | |
| 2021 | −38.4% |
DAPP in the news
DAPP Dividends
- 0.00%
No distributions in the last 12 months.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $1.88 |
DAPP Risk
- 67.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.82
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −91.9%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 3.89
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DAPP Cost
0.52%
DAPP0.52%
- The middle half of Crypto Industry Stocks funds
- Median 0.65%
5 of the 20 Crypto Industry Stocks funds charge less.