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ING Germany Launches Crypto ETP Trading for Customers

ING Germany Launches Crypto ETP Trading for Customers

According to ING Deutschland’s official announcement, retail clients can now trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP ETPs via securities accounts through partnerships with 21Shares, VanEck, and Bitwise.

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Fact Check
The statement is assessed as likely true with high confidence based on overwhelming and consistent evidence from multiple high-authority sources.The most definitive proof is a primary source from ING Germany itself—an official press release on its website announcing the expansion of its product offerings to explicitly include crypto ETNs. This is directly corroborated by other primary sources of equal authority: official press releases from asset managers VanEck and Bitwise, each announcing a partnership with ING Germany to make their specific crypto ETNs/ETPs available to the bank's customers.Supporting this are numerous secondary sources, including financial news aggregators and industry-specific news portals, which all report on the same launch and partnerships. An indirect confirmation also comes from the asset manager Hashdex, which lists ING Germany as a platform where its crypto ETP can be traded. There are no contradictions across any of the provided sources; they all uniformly support the claim that ING Germany has launched a service for customers to trade crypto ETNs.
Summary

ING Deutschland has officially announced that retail clients can now trade cryptocurrency ETPs tracking Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and XRP directly via ING-DiBa’s Direct Depot securities accounts. The products are issued by 21Shares, VanEck, and Bitwise, and allow regulated exchange access to crypto assets without managing wallets or private keys. They receive identical tax treatment to directly held bitcoin in Germany, with gains exempt from capital gains tax after one year. This partnership expands offerings beyond the previously available BTC, ETH, and SOL products, reinforcing mainstream adoption within Germany’s retail brokerage market.

Terms & Concepts
  • Exchange-Traded Product (ETP): A type of security that tracks an underlying asset, index, or commodity and is traded on stock exchanges.
  • Private Key: A cryptographic key used to authorize transactions and access cryptocurrency holdings, which ETP investors do not need to manage.