Tokenized ARKVX goes live, bringing ARK's OpenAI and Anthropic stakes to Ethereum
ARK Invest put its ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum through Securitize, and tokenized ARKVX went live on Sept. 24. The setup gives eligible investors access to an onchain fund tied to a portfolio that includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks.
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Eligible investors now have access to ARK Venture Fund exposure through an onchain structure, and that changes where the product can be held and accessed starting Sept. 24. The portfolio referenced in the launch includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks, so those names sit inside the newly tokenized structure rather than only in a traditional fund format.
In practice, ARK Venture Fund is no longer only presented as a conventional fund because it now exists on Ethereum through Securitize’s issuance and access setup. What stays the same is that it remains an ARK investment product with the same named portfolio exposure; the change is in the wrapper and distribution path, not in the list of companies named in the launch.
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