Fonte Capital Ltd, an investment management company, announced that it has registered with the Fonte Solana Exchange Traded Fund OEIC Plc today at the Astana International Exchange (AIX).
This is the first Solana ETF in the world, with a built-in staking function to give investors both price exposure and extra income from staking.
The fund makes it possible for investors to add Solana to their portfolios without needing to buy, or manage the digital asset themselves. Its goal is to follow the market price of Solana before fees and costs are taken out while also staking the Solana tokens.
This means it locks them into the network to help process transactions and keep the blockchain running. For this, it earns extra income in Solana tokens. The expected return for 2025 is between 5.5 and 7.5 percent a year.
“The listing of the world’s first Solana ETF with staking on the Astana International Exchange is a historic milestone not only for Fonte Capital, but for the entire digital asset industry,” Yerzhan Mussin, CEO of Fonte Capital Ltd said in the press release
The shares are listed under the ticker SETF and are quoted in U.S. dollars. The ETF is registered under the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), which means both professional and everyday investors can take part.
The fund’s assets are kept safe by BitGo Trust Company, a U.S.-regulated custodian that has more than ten years of experience in protecting digital assets. BitGo also provides $250 million in insurance coverage. Trading is carried out on licensed exchanges in the AIFC, such as Bybit Kazakhstan, ATAIX Eurasia, and Binance Kazakhstan. Freedom Broker is the official market maker.
Maksim Kovalev, Head of Digital Assets at Fonte Capital, noted that the launch “confirms the maturity of the Solana ecosystem as a high-performance platform for DeFi and Web3.”
Similar Solana products have appeared in other markets but with different structures. Hashdex launched a Solana ETF in Brazil in March 2024, but only for qualified investors. In July 2025, REX-Osprey began trading a Solana staking fund in the United States, though it was not structured as a spot ETF. European markets also list Solana ETPs, such as 21Shares ASOL and Bitwise BSOL, but none carry the same regulatory ETF status.
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