UK’s largest investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), will open crypto ETN trading to its approximately 2 million investors from September 3, initially offering 9 BTC and ETH ETNs issued by BlackRock’s iShares, WisdomTree, 21Shares, Invesco, CoinShares and Bitwise, with annual fees ranging from 0% to 0.35%. HL had previously been the only major UK investment platform yet to offer crypto ETNs and said last October that “BTC is not an asset class.” The products will be available to users of its Advanced Investing service, with investors required to pass an appropriateness assessment and observe a 24-hour cooling-off period when making their first tradeUK’s largest investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), will open crypto ETN trading to its approximately 2 million investors from September 3, initially offering 9 BTC and ETH ETNs issued by BlackRock’s iShares, WisdomTree, 21Shares, Invesco, CoinShares and Bitwise, with annual fees ranging from 0% to 0.35%. HL had previously been the only major UK investment platform yet to offer crypto ETNs and said last October that “BTC is not an asset class.” The products will be available to users of its Advanced Investing service, with investors required to pass an appropriateness assessment and observe a 24-hour cooling-off period when making their first tradeSeptember 3, 2026 15
