SIREN NASDAQ NEXGEN ECONOMY ETF
Ticker: BLCN
Exchange: The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
SUMMARY PROSPECTUS
July 29, 2025
INVESTMENT ADVISER:
SRN ADVISORS, LLC
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s complete prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus and other information about the Fund online at www.sirenetfs.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-617-0004, by sending an e-mail request to ETF@usbank.com, or by asking any financial intermediary that offers shares of the Fund. The Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated July 29, 2025, as they may be amended from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus and may be obtained, free of charge, at the website, phone number or e-mail address noted above.
Investment Objective
The Siren Nasdaq NexGen Economy ETF (the “NexGen Fund” or the “Fund”) seeks long-term growth by tracking the investment returns, before fees and expenses, of the Nasdaq Blockchain Economy Index (the “Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. The fees are expressed as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets. This table and the Example below do not include other fees, such as brokerage commissions, that investors may pay on their purchases and sales of Fund shares. If these other fees were included in the table and the Example, the costs shown would be higher.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fee |
0.68% |
Other Expenses |
0.00% |
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
0.68% |
Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your cost would be:
1 Year |
3 Years |
5 Years |
10 Years |
$69 |
$218 |
$379 |
$847 |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions or markups/markdowns, when it buys and sells securities (or ‘‘turns over’’ its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when the Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, the portfolio turnover rate of the Fund was 771% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks long-term growth by tracking the investment returns, before fees and expenses, of the Index. The Index was developed through a partnership between Reality Shares, Inc. and Nasdaq, Inc. (together, the “Index Providers”).
The Index is designed to measure the returns of companies that are committing material resources to developing, researching, supporting, innovating or utilizing blockchain technology for their proprietary use or for use by others (“Blockchain Companies”). These Blockchain Companies are committing material resources to further the use and deployment of blockchain technology to, for example, streamline the distribution and verification of cross-border payments; more efficiently store and secure cloud-based digital data; facilitate trusted transactions based on data security and privacy; and mitigate risk in supply chain management, among other uses.
Blockchain technology is an emerging technology that is redefining how a record of value is transacted. Blockchain technology seeks to solve transactional challenges of counterparty trust and the need for a central repository or ledger by providing a transparent and secure process to transfer and digitally record information on a shared transaction database through a secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer distributed ledger. In this regard, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of information or property between users such that the transfer is guaranteed to be secure and known to all participants and shared across a distributed network where, once verified, the legitimacy of the transfer cannot be challenged. Blockchain technology may be used to support a vast array of business applications in many different industries and markets, and the extent of its versatility has not yet been fully explored. As a result, the Index may include equity securities of operating companies that focus on or have exposure to a wide variety of industries and countries, including emerging markets.
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The Index universe of Blockchain Companies consists of companies publicly traded in markets across the globe that research and analysis conducted by the Index Providers identify as exhibiting Blockchain Company characteristics. The Index universe is then narrowed to include only those Blockchain Companies with market capitalizations greater than $200 million, the shares of which are exchange-traded and have a six-month average daily trading volume greater than $1,000,000 as of the Index’s reconstitution date.
The remaining Blockchain Companies are then ranked to determine the leading Blockchain Companies as measured by their Blockchain Score™ which is a proprietary ranking system developed by the Index Providers designed to identify those Blockchain Companies expected to benefit most (e.g., from increased economic profit, operational efficiencies or transformational business practices) from the innovation, adoption, deployment and commercialization of blockchain technology. The 50 to 100 leading Blockchain Companies with the highest Blockchain Scores™ are then selected as the Index constituents. Constituents are weighted in the Index based on their Blockchain Scores™, with Blockchain Companies having higher Blockchain Scores™ weighted more heavily. The Index is reconstituted quarterly on the third Friday in March, June, September and December. The Index is rebalanced as part of each September reconstitution. The Index is rebalanced as part of each March, June and December reconstitution only if new constituents are added to the Index or if a single constituent accounts for more than 10% of the Index. As of March 31, 2025, the Nasdaq Blockchain Economy Index included companies with a capitalization range of $1.3 billion to $2.8 trillion.
Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s assets, including any borrowings for investment purposes, will be invested in component securities of the Index. This investment policy may be changed by the Fund upon 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders. The Fund expects to invest in common stocks, American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”). The Fund does not intend to invest in cryptocurrency directly, but may have indirect exposure to cryptocurrency by virtue of its investments in companies that: operate in the cryptocurrency industry; may use one or more cryptocurrencies, such as in exchange for a company’s goods or services; trade financial instruments that are directly tied to cryptocurrencies; invest in other companies that interact with cryptocurrency; or otherwise have exposure to cryptocurrencies (“Cryptocurrency Operating Companies”).
The Fund generally uses a “replication” strategy to achieve its investment objective, meaning that it will invest in all of the securities included in the Index in approximately the same proportions as the Index. The Fund may, however, use a representative sampling approach to achieve its investment objective when SRN Advisors, LLC (the “Adviser”), the Fund’s investment adviser, believes it is in the best interest of the Fund. For example, among other reasons, the Fund may use a representative sampling approach when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in replicating the Index or when an Index constituent becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid. When the Fund uses a representative sampling approach, the Fund may invest in a subset, or “sample,” of the securities included in the Index and whose risk, return and performance characteristics generally match the risk, return and performance characteristics of the Index as a whole. The Fund may invest in other securities that are not components of the Index that the Adviser believes will help the Fund track the Index.
The Fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities that provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends or direction. To the extent the Index has significant exposure to a particular sector or is concentrated in a particular industry, the Fund will necessarily have significant exposure to that sector or be concentrated in that industry. As of the date of this prospectus, the Fund has significant exposure to the Technology and Financials sectors, as each such sector is defined by the Bloomberg Industry Classification Standard. In addition, as of the date of this Prospectus, the Index components, and thus the Fund’s investments, are concentrated (i.e., 25% or more of its assets) in securities issued by companies in the Asset Management Industry, a separate industry within the Financials sector. The sectors and industries in which the Index components, and thus the Fund’s investments, may be focused or concentrated, respectively, will vary as the composition of the Index changes over time.
Principal Risks
As with all investments, the value of your investment in the Fund can be expected to go up or down. You can lose money on your investment in the Fund, including the possible loss of the entire principal amount of your investment. The principal risk factors affecting your investments in the Fund are set forth below. Each of these factors could cause the value of an investment in the Fund to decline over short- or long-term periods.
Market Risk — The risk that the market value of a security may move up and down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. Market risk may affect a single issuer, an industry, a sector or the equity market as a whole. In addition, the impact of any epidemic, pandemic or natural disaster, or widespread fear that such events may occur, could negatively affect the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the markets in
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general in significant and unforeseen ways. Any such impact could adversely affect the prices and liquidity of the securities and other instruments in which the Fund invests, which in turn could negatively impact the Fund’s performance and cause losses on your investment in the Fund.
Blockchain Technology Risk — Blockchain technology is a new and developing technology protocol deployed by companies in a manner for optimizing business practices. Blockchain technology is not a product or service with an individually attributable revenue stream. Blockchain technology may never develop optimized transactional processes that lead to increased realized economic returns to any company in which the Fund invests.
Non-Blockchain Technology Business Line Risk — Blockchain technology is a technology protocol and not a direct product or service that can be bought and sold for profit. All of the companies in the Index are engaged in primary lines of business whose revenue is derived from a product or service that may utilize or otherwise stand to benefit from blockchain technology, but not directly derived from the sale of blockchain technology. As such, financial operating results for each company in which the Fund invests are principally driven by the products and/or services that constitute each such company’s primary business offerings. The Fund invests in companies with the ability to use blockchain technology to develop new business opportunities or make current operations more efficient, thereby affecting future profitability. There can be no assurance that blockchain technology will affect the primary lines of business in the Fund’s portfolio companies to have a positive impact on a company’s financial condition.
Foreign Issuer Exposure Risk — The Fund may invest in securities of foreign companies directly, or in financial instruments, such as ADRs and GDRs, that are indirectly linked to the performance of foreign issuers. The Fund’s exposure to foreign issuers and investments in foreign securities are subject to additional risks in comparison to U.S. securities and U.S. issuers, including currency fluctuations, adverse political and economic developments, unreliable or untimely information, less liquidity, limited legal recourse and higher transactional costs. In addition, periodic U.S. Government restrictions on investments in issuers from certain foreign countries may require the Fund to sell such investments at inopportune times, which could result in losses to the Fund.
Emerging Markets Risk — Certain of the Fund’s investments will expose the Fund’s portfolio to the risks of investing in emerging markets. Emerging markets, which consist of countries with low to middle income economies as classified by the World Bank and less developed or liquid equity markets as determined by the Adviser, can be subject to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
Depositary Receipt Risk — The Fund may hold the securities of non-U.S. companies in the form of ADRs and GDRs. The underlying securities of the ADRs and GDRs in the Fund’s portfolio are subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates that may affect the value of the Fund’s portfolio. In addition, the value of the securities underlying the ADRs and GDRs may change materially when the U.S. markets are not open for trading. Investments in the underlying foreign securities also involve political and economic risks distinct from those associated with investing in the securities of U.S. issuers.
Currency Risk — The Fund’s indirect and direct exposure to foreign currencies subjects the Fund to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar. The Fund also may incur transaction costs in connection with conversions between various currencies.
Large Capitalization Risk — The risk that larger, more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges such as changes in technology and consumer tastes. Larger companies also may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies.
Cryptocurrency Markets Risk — While the Fund does not intend to invest in cryptocurrency directly, the Fund may invest in Cryptocurrency Operating Companies. Cryptocurrency Operating Companies may be negatively affected by decreases in cryptocurrency prices or downturns in cryptocurrency markets generally. Therefore, an investment in the Fund may decrease in value due to the negative performance of cryptocurrencies or negative events in cryptocurrency markets. Cryptocurrencies, and thus Cryptocurrency Operating Companies, may experience significant negative performance for extended periods of time, which in turn could cause a significant and extended decrease in the value of an investment in the Fund.
Investment Style Risk — The risk that large capitalization securities may underperform other segments of the equity markets or the equity markets as a whole.
Small-Capitalization and Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk — The Fund is subject to the risk that small- and mid-capitalization stocks may underperform other segments of the equity market or the equity market as a whole. Small- and mid-capitalization companies may be more vulnerable than larger, more established organizations to adverse business or economic developments. Securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies may experience much more price volatility, greater spreads between their
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bid and ask prices, significantly lower trading volumes, and cyclical or static growth prospects. Small- and mid-capitalization companies often have limited product lines, markets or financial resources, and may therefore be more vulnerable to adverse developments than larger capitalization companies.
Geographic Focus Risk — Funds that are less diversified across countries or geographic regions are generally riskier than more geographically diversified funds, and risks associated with such countries or geographic regions may negatively affect the Fund. To the extent that the Fund’s investments are focused in a particular country or region, the Fund will be susceptible to loss due to adverse market, political, regulatory, and geographic events affecting that country or region. The Fund’s exposure generally will be focused in a particular country or region to the same extent as the Index.
Sector Risk — The Fund is subject to the following Sector Risks:
Financials Sector Risk. The Fund’s investments are exposed to issuers conducting business in the Financials Sector. The Financials Sector includes companies involved in banking, thrifts and mortgage finance, specialized finance, consumer finance, asset management and custody banks, investment banking and brokerage and insurance. It also includes Financial Exchanges and Data and Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trusts. The Fund is subject to the risk that the securities of such issuers will underperform the market as a whole due to legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition affecting the Financials Sector. Companies operating in the Financials Sector are subject to extensive government regulation, which may limit the financial commitments they can make and the interest rates and fees they can charge. Profitability is largely dependent on the availability and cost of capital funds, and can fluctuate significantly when interest rates change or due to increased competition.
Technology Sector Risk. The Fund’s investments are exposed to issuers conducting business in the Technology Sector. The Technology Sector includes companies that offer software and information technology services, manufacturers and distributors of technology hardware and equipment such as communications equipment, cellular phones, computers and peripherals, electronic equipment and related instruments and semiconductors. The Fund is subject to the risk that the securities of such issuers will underperform the market as a whole due to legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition affecting the Technology Sector. The prices of the securities of companies operating in the Technology Sector are closely tied to market competition, increased sensitivity to short product cycles and aggressive pricing, and problems with bringing products to market.
ETF Risks — The Fund is an ETF and, as a result of this structure, it is exposed to the following risks:
Authorized Participants, Market Makers and Liquidity Providers Concentration Risk — The Fund has a limited number of financial institutions that may act as Authorized Participants, which are responsible for the creation and redemption activity for the Fund. In addition, there may be a limited number of market makers and/or liquidity providers in the marketplace. To the extent either of the following events occur, Fund shares may trade at a material discount to NAV and possibly face delisting: (i) Authorized Participants exit the business or otherwise become unable to process creation and/or redemption orders and no other Authorized Participants step forward to perform these services, or (ii) market makers and/or liquidity providers exit the business or significantly reduce their business activities and no other entities step forward to perform their functions.
Index-Related Risk — Errors in index data, index computations and/or the construction of the Index in accordance with its methodology may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Providers for a period of time or at all, which may have an adverse impact on the Fund and its shareholders. Errors in respect of the quality, accuracy and completeness of the data used to compile the Index may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Providers for a period of time or at all, particularly where the indices are less commonly used as benchmarks by funds or managers. Such errors may negatively or positively impact the Fund and its shareholders. For example, during a period where the Index contains incorrect constituents, the Fund would have market exposure to such constituents and would be underexposed to the Index’s other constituents. Shareholders should understand that any gains from Index Provider errors will be kept by the Fund and its shareholders and any losses or costs resulting from Index Provider errors will be borne by the Fund and its shareholders.
Market Trading Risk — As with all ETFs, Fund shares may be bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. Although it is expected that the market price of a Fund share typically will approximate its net asset value (“NAV”), there may be times when the market price and the NAV diverge more significantly, particularly in times of market volatility or steep market declines. Thus, you may pay more or less than NAV when you buy Fund shares on the secondary market, and you may receive more or less than NAV when you sell those shares. Although the Fund’s shares are listed for trading on a national securities exchange, it is possible that an active trading market may not develop or be maintained, in which case transactions may occur at wider bid/ask spreads. Trading of the Fund’s shares may be halted by the activation of individual or market-wide trading halts (which halt trading for a specific period of time when the price of a particular
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security or overall market prices decline by a specified percentage). In times of market stress, the Fund’s underlying portfolio holdings may become less liquid, which in turn may affect the liquidity of the Fund’s shares and/or lead to more significant differences between the Fund’s market price and its NAV.
Passive Strategy Risk — The Fund is not actively managed. Rather, the Fund attempts to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities. This differs from an actively managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund will hold constituent securities of the Index regardless of the current or projected performance of a specific security or a particular industry or market sector. Maintaining investments in securities regardless of market conditions or the performance of individual securities could cause the Fund’s return to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy.
Tracking Error Risk — Tracking error is the divergence of the Fund’s performance from that of the Index. Tracking error may occur because of a number of factors, including: (i) differences between the securities and other instruments, or the weightings thereof, held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Index, (ii) pricing differences (including differences between a security’s price at the local market close and the Fund’s valuation of a security at the time of calculation of the Fund’s NAV), (iii) Fund fees and expenses, including transaction costs, (iv) the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, (v) differences in timing of the accrual of or the valuation of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, (vi) the requirements to maintain pass-through tax treatment, (vii) portfolio transactions carried out to minimize the distribution of capital gains to shareholders, and (viii) changes to the Index or the costs of complying with various new or existing regulatory requirements. Tracking error risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions. The Index may include, and thus the Fund may buy and sell, large quantities of shares of companies with small market capitalizations and low average daily trading volumes. Trading such shares, particularly during times of market volatility, among other reasons, may cause the Fund to experience significant tracking error. The Fund is a diversified fund. If the Index components become weighted in a manner that would cause the Fund to be non-diversified if the Fund were to buy the components in such weights, the Fund may not be able to track the performance of the Index to the same degree that the Fund could if the Fund was a non-diversified Fund. Under these circumstances, the Fund’s tracking error may increase. If the value of one or more Index constituents increases significantly, the Fund may significantly underperform the Index if the Fund, due to its diversified status, does not invest in such securities to the same degree that such securities are represented in the Index
Liquidity Risk — Certain securities may be difficult or impossible to sell at the time and the price that the Fund would like. The Fund may have to accept a lower price to sell a security, sell other securities to raise cash, or give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on Fund management or performance.
Valuation Risk — Valuation risk is the risk that a security may be difficult to value and/or valued incorrectly.
Portfolio Turnover Risk — Due to its investment strategy, the Fund may buy and sell securities frequently. This may result in higher transaction costs and additional capital gains tax liabilities, which may affect the Fund’s performance.
Performance Information
The bar chart and the performance table below illustrate the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual total returns for 1 year, 5 years and since inception compare with those of the Index and a broad measure of market performance. Of course, the Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Before the Fund commenced operations, the Fund acquired the assets and liabilities of the Reality Shares Nasdaq NexGen Economy ETF (the “Predecessor NexGen Fund”), a series of Reality Shares ETF Trust, on November 23, 2020 (the “Reorganization”). As a result of the Reorganization, the Fund assumed the performance and accounting history of the Predecessor NexGen Fund prior to the date of the Reorganization. Accordingly, the performance shown for periods prior to the Reorganization represents the performance of the Predecessor NexGen Fund.
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Updated performance for the Fund is available at www.sirenetfs.com.
Best Quarter |
Worst Quarter |
32.11% |
(31.25)% |
(06/30/2020) |
(06/30/2022) |
The performance information shown above is based on a calendar year. The Fund’s performance from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025 was (8.93)%.
Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2024
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
SIREN NASDAQ NEXGEN ECONOMY ETF |
1 Year |
5 Years |
Since |
Fund Returns Before Taxes |
7.32% |
0.69% |
1.91% |
Fund Returns After Taxes on Distributions |
7.22% |
0.55% |
1.70% |
Fund Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares |
4.41% |
0.56% |
1.47% |
MSCI ACWI Total Return Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
17.49% |
10.06% |
8.55% |
Nasdaq Blockchain Economy Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) |
34.18% |
16.86% |
13.45% |
Investment Adviser
SRN Advisors, LLC serves as the investment adviser to the Fund.
Portfolio Manager
Scott Freeze, President of the Adviser, has served as portfolio manager of the Fund since November 2020.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund will issue (or redeem) shares to certain institutional investors known as “Authorized Participants” (typically market makers or other broker-dealers) only in large blocks of 25,000 shares known as “Creation Units.” Creation Unit transactions are conducted in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a designated basket of in-kind securities and/or cash.
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The shares of the Fund are listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC (the “Exchange”). Individual Fund shares may only be purchased and sold on the Fund’s Exchange, other national securities exchanges, electronic crossing networks and other alternative trading systems through your broker-dealer at market prices. Because Fund shares trade at market prices rather than at net asset value (“NAV”), shares may trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount). Most investors will incur customary brokerage commissions or other charges when buying or selling shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer. Investors also may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the Fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the Fund (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). Information regarding the Fund’s NAV per share, market price, premium or discount and bid-ask spread is available on the Fund’s website at www.sirenetfs.com.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable and generally will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless your investment is in an individual retirement account or other tax-advantaged retirement account. Investment through such accounts may be subject to taxation upon withdrawal.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Adviser or other related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
SIREN-BLCN-SUM-25
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