Methodology slot — pre-launch
TS-GMRI-ETF™
TS-GMRI Tokenized ETF Wrappers™
No value published yet — this is a registered methodology slot. The rules are fixed; a live value begins once the publication threshold is met.
Registered 15 June 2026 · base date 7 June 2026 = 100

What it tracks

Filter. Tokens that wrap an existing exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding physical metals or metal-economy equities, rather than a single equity or a unit of physical metal.

Weighting. Market-cap weighted with 40% single-issuer cap.

A registered methodology slot for tokens that wrap an entire ETF rather than a single share or a gram of metal. The wrapper is a derivative-on-derivative (token → ETF share → underlying basket). Structurally distinct from both TS-GMRI (commodity-backed) and TS-GMRI-MEQ (equity), so it earns its own slot. Live example at registration: Backed Finance bGLD (wrap of SPDR Gold Shares GLD). Slot reserved 17 June 2026 for prior art; no value is published until N≥3 eligible constituents from ≥2 distinct issuers and ≥2 distinct underlying ETF strategies.

Tokenized ETF wrappers are a structurally new wrapper class with no conventional TradFi analog — existing commodity-ETF indices track underlyings, not derivative wrappers. Issuer pipeline visible: Backed Finance (additional wraps for GDX, SLV, URA planned), 21Shares + Securitize tokenized-ETF programme, Swarm Markets ETF tokens. Registering the slot now establishes prior art before the category becomes contested.

Comparable in spirit to: No direct analog — white space in the index industry. Closest TradFi reference: commodity-ETF fund-of-funds (rare).

Constituents

0 / N≥3 eligible constituents from ≥2 distinct issuers and ≥2 distinct underlying ETF strategies
Pending universe — methodology slot registered

Awaiting tokens meeting eligibility (Section 3 of the methodology: physical-metal backing, on-chain claim, issuer transparency, ≥ USD 1M market cap, public price feed, no double-counting). Currently 0 eligible constituents.

The rules are fixed and the slot is registered for prior art. No value is published and no constituents are listed until the threshold is met — we do not invent numbers from sparse data.

Publication threshold: N≥3 eligible constituents from ≥2 distinct issuers and ≥2 distinct underlying ETF strategies

Computation

The index is recomputed daily at 00:00 UTC from CoinGecko closing-day market caps. Let MCi,t be the circulating market capitalisation of constituent i on day t, and MCi,0 its value on the base date (7 June 2026, base value 100).

TS-GMRI-ETFt = 100 × ( Σii · MCi,t ) / ( Σii · MCi,0 )
where ŵi are cap-weights after the iterative 20% single-issuer cap.

Both cap-weighted and equal-weighted variants are rounded to 2 decimal places for display. New constituents are chained in at the next monthly review using a continuity multiplier so the historical series is not distorted. The full rules are fixed in the methodology document below.

Methodology & provenance

Canonical methodology

This member is governed by the locked TS-GMRI Methodology v1.0 — the single source of truth for the family's universe, filters, weighting and rebalancing rules.

SHA-256 of methodology v1.0

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Timestamped via OpenTimestamps on the Bitcoin blockchain (proof pending Bitcoin confirmation).

Prior art

The TS-GMRI family (legacy mark “GMRI”) was first published on 7 June 2026 as the first publicly published market index dedicated to tokenized physical metals. Authorship: Andrey Kuznetsov, Hong Kong.

The TS-GMRI family

17 members · 6 live · 11 slots

One coherent taxonomy: shared universe, shared base date 7 June 2026 = 100, shared data-discipline. Members differ only in filter and weighting. See the full family hub ›

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