ARK Invest brings $1.3 billion venture fund onchain through Securitize
ARK Invest said it is bringing its ARK Venture Fund onchain through Securitize and placing it on Ethereum. The fund is described as an existing vehicle with about $1.3 billion in assets and holdings that include private technology companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Investors in the ARK Venture Fund are the group most directly affected today, because the fund is being moved onto Ethereum through Securitize and its ownership and administration are being tokenized. That changes how the fund is represented and managed, while the underlying portfolio remains the same fund with private-company exposure.
In practice, this is not the launch of a new crypto fund; it is the existing ARK Venture Fund being tokenized. The fund’s holdings and asset base stay in place, including companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and SpaceX.
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