- Pays: weekly (it paid monthly until late 2025).
- First paid: October 2023.
- What it is: an option-income fund that sells call options on Coinbase (COIN) — so its income rides on crypto-market volatility.
- Payout pattern: a spectacular 2024 (crypto mania meant huge option fees), followed by much smaller totals — the amounts track volatility, not any schedule.
- Headline yield: at times among the highest of any ETF — and among the least stable. See the total-return box below.
CONY's payouts rise and fall with crypto-market volatility — the boom-year totals in the table are history, not a baseline.
CONY pays weekly (monthly until late 2025). Each point below is one distribution since October 2023 — you can see 2024's enormous payouts and the smaller ones since. The table further down totals every 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.
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.
CONY's income is a weather report on crypto. It sells call options on Coinbase, and what option buyers will pay for Coinbase depends almost entirely on how wild the crypto market feels that month. In 2024's mania, they paid fortunes — look at the table. When the weather calmed, the same fund running the same strategy collected a fraction of the fees. Neither number was a mistake; neither is a promise.
Meanwhile the usual option-income physics apply: upside sold away, downside kept, share price eroding over time, and slices of some payments being your own capital returned. Before you annualize a good week into a retirement plan, run the only honest test — total return, payouts plus share-price change, computed with real prices in the box above. The full mechanics, jargon-free: What Are YieldMax ETFs?
| 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. Figures reflect any share-split adjustments made by the data source.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
Boom, Then Gravity: CONY's Payout Story
CONY — the YieldMax COIN Option Income Strategy ETF — turns crypto volatility into weekly income. It sells call options on Coinbase (COIN), the largest US crypto exchange, whose stock amplifies every mood swing of the crypto market. CONY made its first payout in October 2023, paid monthly through the boom that followed, and switched to weekly distributions in late 2025 along with its YieldMax siblings.
The year-by-year table tells a story you should read twice: 2024 was enormous — crypto mania made Coinbase options fantastically expensive, and CONY passed those fees straight through — and the years since have been a fraction of it. Same fund, same strategy, very different market. That's the single most important thing to understand about CONY: the payout is the weather, not a salary.
How Often Does CONY Pay?
Weekly, typically Thursdays, since late 2025 — monthly before that. The chart above plots every payment ever made; drag across it to read exact amounts and dates.
Why Did CONY's Payout Boom, Then Shrink?
Option income tracks volatility. When bitcoin ripped higher in 2024, Coinbase's implied volatility — and the fees option buyers would pay — went vertical, and so did CONY's distributions. When crypto cooled, the fees fell. Meanwhile the fund's own share price eroded (it keeps most of COIN's downside but sells away most of the upside), so each dollar of NAV earned fees on a smaller base. Add the return-of-capital component many payments carry, and the down-trend in the table is exactly what the product design predicts.
Is CONY's Payout Safe?
It is probably the least predictable payout of any fund on this site — that's not an insult, it's the design. If crypto volatility surges again, CONY's distributions could surge too; if crypto goes quiet, they'll shrink further. No level is promised. Judge it by total return using the backtest above, and read What Are YieldMax ETFs? for the plain-English mechanics. Compare it with MSTY (the bitcoin-proxy version), TSLY (the original), and ULTY (the diversified one) — or with calmer monthly payers like JEPI and Realty Income (O).
Understand Crypto-Volatility Income
CONY's checks follow the crypto weather. Learn how option income, return of capital, and NAV erosion interact before you rely on it.
Read: What Are YieldMax ETFs?