REX Shares Launches First Pure Play Drone ETF: REX Drone ETF (Ticker: DRNZ)
MIAMI – REX Shares (“REX”), a leading innovator in alternative ETFs, today announced the launch of the REX Drone ETF (Ticker: DRNZ), the first Drone pureplay ETF focused on the global drone and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) economy.
The REX Drone ETF provides investors with targeted exposure to companies driving growth in both defense and commercial drone applications. Unlike traditional aerospace or defense ETFs, this fund offers a dedicated focus on drones and UAVs, capturing the rapidly expanding use cases that span military reconnaissance, commercial delivery, agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and AI-enabled industrial automation.
“Drones are no longer just a defense story—they’re transforming logistics, agriculture, and industry at large,” said Greg King, Founder and CEO at REX. “This ETF is designed to give investors authentic, targeted exposure to a technology that’s reshaping how we move goods, monitor infrastructure, and think about automation.”
The ETF is based on the VettaFi Drone Index (VDRONE), which tracks global companies that derive a significant portion of revenues from drone-related businesses. The index allocates primarily to pureplay companies earning at least half of their revenue from drones or enabling technologies and to diversified defense and aerospace firms with established UAV programs.
According to industry projections, the global drone market is expected to more than double in size over the next decade, as adoption accelerates across both public and private sectors. The REX Drone ETF offers investors an early opportunity to access this growth through a diversified basket of global drone innovators.
The fund will be listed on Nasdaq under ticker symbol DRNZ.
About REX
REX Financial is a leading provider of innovative exchange-traded products (ETPs), specializing in alternative strategy ETFs and ETNs. We have introduced strategies including the first U.S.-listed Solana ETF with on-chain staking rewards (REX-Osprey SSK); the first 2x leveraged ETFs tied to Nvidia, Tesla, MicroStrategy, and spot Bitcoin (T-REX); and a suite of option-based covered call ETFs, ranging from traditional approaches to single-stock strategies that balance weekly distributions with uncapped upside.
Important Risks
Investing in a REX Shares ETF may be more volatile than investing in broadly diversified funds. The use of leverage by a Fund increases the risk to the Fund. The REX Shares ETFs are not suitable for all investors and should be utilized only by sophisticated investors who understand leverage risk, consequences of seeking daily leveraged, or daily inverse leveraged, investment results and intend to actively monitor and manage their investment.
An investment in the Fund entails risk. The Fund may not achieve its leveraged investment objective and there is a risk that you could lose all of your money invested in the Fund. The Fund is not a complete investment program. In addition, the Fund presents risks not traditionally associated with other mutual funds and ETFs. It is important that investors closely review all of the risks listed below and understand them before making an investment in the Fund.
Indirect Investment Risk. The underlying drone and UAV companies are not affiliated with the Trust, the Adviser, or any of their affiliates, and are not involved with this offering in any way. They have no obligation to consider the Fund when taking any corporate actions that might affect the value of the Fund. The Trust, the Fund, and any of their affiliates are not responsible for the performance of the underlying companies and make no representation regarding their performance. Investing in the Fund is not equivalent to investing in these companies. Fund shareholders will not have voting rights, rights to receive dividends or other distributions, or any other rights with respect to these companies.
Industry Concentration Risk. The Fund will be concentrated in drone and unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) companies and related enabling technologies. A portfolio concentrated in a particular industry may present more risks than a portfolio broadly diversified over several industries. Drone and UAV companies face risks including rapid technological change, evolving regulation, supply-chain vulnerabilities, defense spending dependencies, and reputational risks from accidents or misuse.
Information Technology Companies Risk. Information technology companies produce and provide hardware, software and information technology systems and services. Information technology companies may be adversely affected by rapidly changing technologies, short product life cycles, intense competition, aggressive pricing and reduced profit margins, the loss of intellectual property protections, cyclical market patterns, changing industry standards and frequent new product introductions.
New Fund Risk. As of the date of this prospectus, the Fund has no operating history and currently has fewer assets than larger funds. Like other new funds, large inflows and outflows may impact the Fund’s market exposure for limited periods of time.
Underlying Security Investing Risk. Issuer-specific attributes may cause an investment held by the Fund to be more volatile than the market generally. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Distributor: Foreside Fund Services, LLC, member FINRA, not affiliated with REX Shares or the Fund’s investment advisor.
