Annex A
The iShares® Ethereum Trust ETF
All information contained in this pricing supplement regarding the iShares® Ethereum Trust ETF has been derived from publicly
available information, without independent verification. This information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, the sponsor
of the Fund, iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC ("iShares Delaware"), an indirect subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. BlackRock Fund
Advisors, a California corporation that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., is the trustee of the Fund. The Bank of New
York Mellon is the cash custodian of the Fund and Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC is the ether custodian of the Fund. The
Fund is an investment trust that trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol "ETHA."
The Fund seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of ether before the payment of its expenses and liabilities. The assets
of the Fund consist primarily of ether held by the ether custodian on behalf of the Fund. The Fund issues blocks of shares in exchange
for deposits of ether or cash. The shares of the Fund are intended to constitute a simple and cost-effective means of making an
investment similar to an investment in ether. The shares of the Fund represent units of fractional undivided beneficial interest in and
ownership of the Fund. The Fund is a passive investment vehicle that does not seek to generate returns beyond tracking the price of
ether and the sponsor of the Fund does not actively manage the ether held by the Fund. The trustee of the Fund sells ether held by the
Fund to pay the Fund's expenses on an as-needed basis irrespective of then-current ether prices.
Currently, the Fund's only ordinary recurring expense is expected to be iShares Delaware's fee, which is accrued daily at an annualized
rate equal to 0.25% of the net asset value of the Fund and is payable at least quarterly in arrears. The trustee of the Fund will, when
directed by iShares Delaware, and, in the absence of such direction, may, in its discretion, sell ether in such quantity and at such times
as may be necessary to permit payment of iShares Delaware's fee and of expenses or liabilities of the Fund not assumed by iShares
Delaware. As a result of the recurring sales of ether necessary to pay the Fund sponsor's fee and the Fund expenses or liabilities not
assumed by the Fund sponsor, the net asset value of the Fund and, correspondingly, the fractional amount of ether represented by
each share will decrease over the life of the Fund. New deposits of ether, received in exchange for additional new issuances of shares
by the Fund, do not reverse this trend.
Information provided to or filed with the SEC by the Fund pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, can be located by reference to SEC file numbers 333-275583 and 001-42166, respectively,
through the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. The Fund is not a mutual fund or any other type of investment company within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder. The Fund is not a
commodity pool for purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder, and
iShares Delaware is not subject to regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity pool operator or a
commodity trading advisor.
Ether
Ether is a digital asset, the ownership and behavior of which are determined by participants in an online, peer-to-peer network that
connects computers that run publicly accessible, or "open source," software that follows the rules and procedures governing the
ethereum network. The value of ether, like the value of other digital assets, is not backed by any government, corporation or other
identified body. Ownership and the ability to transfer or take other actions with respect to ether are protected through public-key
cryptography. The supply of ether is constrained or formulated by its protocol instead of being explicitly delegated to an identified body
(e.g., a central bank) to control. Unlike certain digital assets, such as bitcoin, there is no hard cap on the supply of ether. Units of
ether, called tokens, are treated as fungible. Ether and certain other types of digital assets are often referred to as digital currencies or
cryptocurrencies. No single entity owns or operates the ethereum network, the infrastructure of which is collectively maintained by (1) a
decentralized group of participants who run computer software that results in the recording and validation of transactions (commonly
referred to as "validators"), (2) developers who propose improvements to the ethereum network's underlying protocol and the software
that enforces the protocol and (3) users who choose what ethereum network software to run.
Ether was released in 2015 and, as a result, there is little data on its long-term investment potential. Ether is not backed by a
government-issued legal tender or any other currency or asset. Ether is "stored" or reflected on a digital transaction ledger commonly
known as a "blockchain." A blockchain is a type of shared and continually reconciled database, stored in a decentralized manner on
the computers of certain users of the digital asset. The ethereum network has undergone a number of significant changes since its
release, including the transition from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism (where network participants engaged in prescribed,
complex mathematical calculations to add blocks containing transactions to the blockchain) to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.
Under the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, validators risk or "stake" their ether to compete to be randomly selected to validate
transactions and are rewarded ether in proportion to the amount of ether staked. Malicious activity, such as validating multiple blocks,
disagreeing with the eventual consensus or otherwise violating protocol rules, can result in the forfeiture of a portion of the staked ether.