Gold is the one asset that’s weathered every disaster in history.

If you missed out on gold’s big move – up more than 100% in the last two years… relax.

There’s still time to make a life-changing fortune from gold in the coming decade. 

At a private dinner in Colorado, I learned how gold will return to the US monetary system. Go here to find out what I discovered.

But there’s another reason now is the time to load up on gold…

It’s running out.

Since 1950, roughly 70% of all the gold on earth has already been dug up and refined.

What remains is both harder to find and more costly to mine. 

That means gold supplies are running out at the exact same moment the world needs gold to stabilize its heavily indebted financial system. 

That’s why this will be gold’s final bull market.

That’s also why I’m releasing a simple, four-stock portfolio of the top gold developers in the world – the best of the best. Go here for details

These four are the best-run companies… with the leanest operations in the gold investing world. 

Selling at an average discount of 82% to the value of their assets, it’s like buying dollars for .18 cents each.

If you don’t own them, your wealth and your family’s future will not be the same in ten years. 

Read about my latest discovery and get my top four picks – along with a bonus pick I believe could hand you 25X your money.

Regards,

Garrett Goggin, CFA, CMT
Lead Analyst and Founder, Golden Portfolio

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Today’s Bonus Article

3 Innovative Crypto ETFs That May Surprise in 2026

By Nathan Reiff. Article Posted: 1/19/2026. 

Article Highlights

• Despite Bitcoin dropping back below $100,000 by late 2025, there are tailwinds in 2026 thanks to easing regulations and other benefits.
• Crypto ETFs are proliferating and provide investors with a growing range of strategies to gain exposure to cryptocurrencies.
• Three innovative funds worth a closer look focus on things like staking Solana or Ether, or on generating monthly distributions through a fund-of-funds approach.

After Bitcoin’s dramatic rally to highs near $126,000 last year, it gave back essentially all of those gains in the final months of 2025 and is now down roughly 4% on a trailing 12‑month basis. Still, with new stablecoin legislation, encouraging regulatory developments and an expanding set of access points for everyday users, there are several reasons investors might expect that 2026 could be a strong year for the industry.

As many cryptocurrency firms shift focus and repurpose operations to serve AI and data-center needs, it has become harder for investors to include Bitcoin and other crypto directly in portfolios. Fortunately, a number of innovative exchange-traded funds are taking advantage of new opportunities. Crypto enthusiasts may want to consider these alternatives, either alongside tokens or as a standalone allocation.

A Fund-of-Funds Approach to Generating Monthly Income

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The NEOS Bitcoin High Income ETF (NYSEARCA: BTCI) launched in late 2024 with the goal of producing monthly distributions by writing call options on Bitcoin futures ETFs.

As an actively managed fund focused on Bitcoin exchange-traded products, BTCI can offer investors a degree of insulation from direct Bitcoin-price volatility and should become more diversified as the Bitcoin ETF market expands.

BTCI carries a modest expense ratio of 0.98% given its strategy and has attracted significant investor interest in a short period, with more than $1 billion in assets under management.

Its distribution profile is noteworthy—annualizing the fund’s most recent monthly distribution and dividing it by the most recent ex‑date NAV yields a distribution rate of 27.3%. The fund also has appreciation potential and has returned roughly 10% over the past year.

Innovative Staking Approach and Rewards for Solana Investors

Solana, the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market value, has grown in importance within the crypto ecosystem, but gaining ETF exposure to it has been difficult.

The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (NYSEARCA: BSOL)aims to change that by being the first exchange-traded product to provide 100% direct exposure to Solana.

For investors who are unfamiliar with or deterred by the technicalities of staking, BSOL offers professionally managed, in-house staking and seeks to stake 100% of its Solana holdings. That approach lets investors participate in the broader crypto ecosystem while diversifying beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The gross staking reward rate—annualized over the last 90 days and including inflation rewards and other benefits—is an attractive 6.74%. BSOL also features a unique fee structure: for the first three months after launch (ending Jan. 23, 2026), the expense ratio is waived on the first $1 billion in managed assets. It currently has about $778 million in AUM, and after the three-month period the expense ratio will be 0.20%.

First-Ever Ether Fund Adds Distributions

The Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (NYSEARCA: ETHE) is the first ETF to track the spot price of Ether. While it launched on NYSE Arca in 2024, it previously traded on OTC Markets for several years.

Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, remains central to decentralized finance. ETHE’s expense ratio of 2.5% is relatively high, but the fund stakes roughly 72% of its Ether holdings and has generated gross staking rewards of about 4.17%.

This staking yield is reflected in ETHE’s first dividend distribution—$0.083178 per share—paid in early 2026. Investors may reasonably expect distributions to continue and potentially grow, providing an additional income component alongside any price appreciation in Ether.

With an average one-month trading volume of about 6.7 million shares and more than $3 billion in AUM, ETHE should be sufficiently liquid for both active traders and buy-and-hold investors.

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