Ark Invest Tokenizes Venture Fund, Making Holdings Available on Ethereum
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What happened
Ark Invest is tokenizing its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) using infrastructure from Securitize. The fund provides eligible investors with exposure to private and public companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. The tokenized fund interests are being made available on the Ethereum network.
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Why it matters
The move sees an asset manager bringing investment products onto blockchain rails. This allows investors to gain on-chain exposure to private company holdings, such as those in OpenAI. The tokenization leverages the Ethereum protocol as the availability layer for these assets.
Ark Invest focuses its investments on consumer crypto brokerages, digital asset infrastructure, and stablecoin issuers.
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Who's involved
- Ark InvestAsset management firm tokenizing its venture fund.
- OpenAIHigh-stakes AI research organization whose stakes are held by the fund.
- EthereumPublic blockchain platform where the tokenized fund is available.
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The entities involved
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Ark Invest
American asset management firm
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OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research organization
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Ethereum
public blockchain platform with programmable transaction functionality
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