- Pays: weekly.
- First paid: July 2025, shortly after launch.
- What it is: the Nicholas Crypto Income ETF — a basket of crypto-linked stocks and funds (miners, exchanges, bitcoin vehicles) with option strategies layered on top for weekly income.
- Headline rate: trailing figures around 50% — driven by crypto-sector volatility, not by anything resembling interest.
- The catch: the payout and the share price both ride the crypto cycle; calm or falling crypto means smaller checks on a smaller base.
BLOX targets high weekly income from crypto-sector volatility; distributions vary and typically include return-of-capital components.
BLOX pays weekly. Each point below is one distribution since July 2025. The table further down totals each year.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Distribution / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from BLOX's recent payment rhythm — the fund announces exact dates shortly before each payout, and the data feed can lag a few days. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; the cash typically arrives days later. See every fund's upcoming date on the live dividend calendar.
A real total-return estimate, assuming every payout was reinvested — including what happened to the share price. Before taxes and fees. Past performance does not predict the future.
BLOX takes the diversified route through crypto income: rather than one bitcoin fund's options, it holds a spread of crypto-economy names and harvests option premium across them. That softens single-name blowups, but the entire basket shares one master switch — the crypto cycle. When digital assets run, premiums are rich; when they winter, every holding cools at once.
Compare the single-asset routes — YBTC (bitcoin covered calls) and YETH (ether) — and judge them all by the total-return backtest above, never the headline rate.
| Year | Total Distributions / Share | Payments | Change vs Prior Year |
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Data source: Yahoo Finance. Figures are per share; the current year may be partial and figures should be verified against official sources.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is BLOX's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
BLOX pays weekly. The exact date of each payout is announced by the fund only shortly beforehand, so no site can promise the next date — but the live schedule box above shows the most recent ex-dividend date and the expected window for the next one, computed from BLOX's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
BLOX's Record So Far
BLOX — the Nicholas Crypto Income ETF — began paying in July 2025 and has distributed weekly since, with a trailing rate near 50% of today's price. One year in, the honest summary is: the checks track crypto's temperature, arriving smaller as the sector cooled from its 2025 highs.
The Machinery
The fund owns crypto-linked equities and sells option premium against them — the covered-call physics every regular reader of this site knows, pointed at the market's most volatile sector. Distributions typically carry return-of-capital components, and the fund's price bears the sector's drawdowns with rallies partly sold away (the fine print).
Where BLOX Fits
For an investor who wants crypto-economy exposure as weekly income rather than growth — with eyes open that both the checks and the base are cyclical. The neighboring choices: YBTC, BTCI, and LFGY. Next expected date on the live calendar.
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