Form 485BXT Bitwise Funds Trust

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2025

 

 

1933 Act Registration No. 333-264900

1940 Act Registration No. 811-23801

 

United States

Securities and Exchange Commission

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Form N-1A

 

Registration Statement Under the Securities Act of 1933	☐
Pre-Effective Amendment No. __	☐
Post-Effective Amendment No. 27	☒

and/or

Registration Statement Under the Investment Company Act of 1940	☐
Amendment No. 29	☒

 

Bitwise Funds Trust

250 Montgomery Street, Suite 200

San Francisco, California 94104
(415) 707-3663

 

Delaware Trust Company

251 Little Falls Drive
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

Copy to:

 

Richard J. Coyle, Esq.
Chapman and Cutler LLP
320 South Canal Street
Chicago, Illinois 60606

 

Katherine Dowling, Esq.
Bitwise Asset Management, Inc.
250 Montgomery Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, California 94104

 

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

 

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Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485.

☒

On September 4, 2025 pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485.

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60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485.

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On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485.

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75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

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On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485.

 

If appropriate, check the following box:

 

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This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

 

 

Contents of Registration Statement

 

This Registration Statement comprises the following papers and contents:

 

The Facing Sheet

 

The sole purpose of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 20, as it relates to Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF (the “Fund”), a series of the Registrant, until September 4, 2025. Parts A, B and C of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 20, filed on April 25, 2025 are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Signatures

 

 

Signatures

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized in the City of San Francisco, and State of California on the 5th day of August 2025.

 

	Bitwise Funds Trust
	By:	/s/ Paul Fusaro
		Paul Fusaro, President and Chairman

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Capacity		Date
/s/ Paul Fusaro		President, Trustee, Chairman		August 5, 2025
Paul Fusaro		(Principal Executive Officer)
Jim Gallo*		Treasurer		August 5, 2025
Jim Gallo		(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
David Fogel*		Trustee		August 5, 2025
David Fogel
Jena Watson*		Trustee		August 5, 2025
Jena Watson
Terrence W. Olson*		Trustee		August 5, 2025
Terrence W. Olson

 

*

An original power of attorney authorizing Paul Fusaro and Katherine Dowling to execute this Registration Statement, and amendments thereto, for each of the trustees of the Registrant on whose behalf this Registration Statement were previously executed and filed as an exhibit.

 

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