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abrdn Silver ETF Trust – ‘10-K/A’ for 12/31/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 9/29/22, at 5:24pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/21   ·   Accession #:  1839882-22-22256   ·   File #:  1-34412

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 9/29/22  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            10-K/A     12/31/21   39:2.6M                                   Quality Edgar - QES/FA

Amendment to Annual Report   —   Form 10-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K/A      Amendment to Form 10-K                              HTML   1.02M 
 2: EX-23.1     Consent of Kpmg LLP, Independent Registered Public  HTML     13K 
                Accounting Firm                                                  
 3: EX-31.1     Chief Executive Officer's Certificate               HTML     18K 
 4: EX-31.2     Chief Financial Officer's Certificate               HTML     18K 
 5: EX-31.3     Chief Executive Officer's Certificate               HTML     18K 
 6: EX-31.4     Chief Financial Officer's Certificate               HTML     18K 
 7: EX-32.1     Chief Executive Officer's Certificate               HTML     15K 
 8: EX-32.2     Chief Financial Officer's Certificate               HTML     15K 
 9: EX-32.3     Chief Executive Officer's Certificate               HTML     15K 
10: EX-32.4     Chief Financial Officer's Certificate               HTML     15K 
16: R1          Cover                                               HTML     84K 
17: R2          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     42K 
18: R3          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     27K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
19: R4          Schedules of Investments                            HTML     36K 
20: R5          Statements of Operations                            HTML     50K 
21: R6          Statements of Changes in Net Assets                 HTML     37K 
22: R7          Financial Highlights                                HTML     33K 
23: R8          Financial Highlights (Parenthetical)                HTML     14K 
24: R9          Organization                                        HTML     18K 
25: R10         Significant Accounting Policies                     HTML     78K 
26: R11         Related Parties                                     HTML     17K 
27: R12         Concentration of Risk                               HTML     16K 
28: R13         Indemnification                                     HTML     17K 
29: R14         Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)          HTML     90K 
30: R15         Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)            HTML     52K 
31: R16         Organization (Details Narrative)                    HTML     15K 
32: R17         The categorization of the Trust?s assets is as      HTML     17K 
                shown below (Details)                                            
33: R18         Changes in ounces of silver and their respective    HTML     37K 
                values for the years ended December 31, 2021 and                 
                2020 are set out below (Details)                                 
34: R19         Significant Accounting Policies (Details            HTML     38K 
                Narrative)                                                       
37: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     53K 
35: XML         XBRL Instance -- sivr-10ka_123121_htm                XML    311K 
36: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     46K 
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14: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- sivr-20211231_lab                     XML    334K 
15: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- sivr-20211231_pre              XML    216K 
11: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- sivr-20211231                         XSD     62K 
38: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              105±   140K 
39: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001839882-22-022256-xbrl      Zip    251K 


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6 Previous Filings that this Filing References

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 4/04/19  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            8-K:1,9     3/29/19    3:394K                                   Quality EDGAR So… LLC/FA
 3/01/19  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            10-K       12/31/18   35:2.6M
10/05/18  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            8-K:1,5,9  10/01/18    4:592K                                   Quality EDGAR So… LLC/FA
11/06/17  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            10-Q        9/30/17   34:2M
12/18/14  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            8-K:8      12/18/14    2:95K
 7/21/09  abrdn Silver ETF Trust            S-1/A¶                13:1.3M                                   Command Financial
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