According to CoinMeta, as of August 10th, since the second half of this year, the total scale of ETF (exchange-traded open-end index funds) has maintained a growth trend. Data from Wind shows that the number of shares of ETF increased by 374.2 billion, reaching a total scale of 3.4 trillion yuan, with an increase of 253.4 billion yuan, bringing it to 4.99 trillion yuan, just one step away from 5 trillion yuan. In the second half of the year, 48 new ETF products were issued, bringing the total to 1,629. Among them, the theme with the largest increase in shares was finance, with 31 funds tracking it; the index with the largest increase in shares was semiconductor materials and equipment; and the index with the highest returns was gold stocks.