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- ARK Invest is tokenizing its ARK Venture Fund through Securitize.
- The fund has roughly $1.3 billion in assets and invests across private and public technology companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks.
- The move tokenizes ownership and administration of the existing fund rather than creating a new crypto fund.
**ID:** N25-02
**Site:** NewsBTC
**Status:** READY
**Author:** NewsBTC Editorial Team
**Focus Keyword:** Tokenization
**Image Keyword:** Tokenization
**Category:** Technology
**Tags:** ARK Invest, Securitize, Tokenization, ARKVX, Venture Capital
**Primary Source:** https://securitize.io/learn/press-releases
A Venture Fund Becomes A Tokenized Security
ARKVX is an actively managed closed-end interval fund focused on disruptive innovation.
Its portfolio includes exposure to companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks alongside public-market investments.
Securitize will provide the tokenization infrastructure.
That means fund interests can be represented and administered onchain while the underlying investment strategy remains the same.
This is not ARK launching a cryptocurrency or turning the underlying private companies themselves into freely tradeable tokens.
The asset being tokenized is the fund interest.
That distinction matters because tokenization can change how an investment product is issued, held and transferred without changing the legal nature of the securities inside it.
ARK And Securitize Are Deepening An Existing Relationship
The launch follows ARK’s strategic investment in Securitize in 2025.
It also arrives as large asset managers increasingly experiment with blockchain infrastructure for products that already exist in traditional finance.
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund has become one of the best-known examples, while firms including Franklin Templeton and WisdomTree have also expanded tokenized-fund offerings.
ARKVX pushes that trend further into venture investing.
Private-market products have historically been operationally awkward compared with listed securities. Ownership records, subscriptions and transfers can involve slower and more fragmented systems.
Tokenized fund interests do not automatically solve liquidity or investor-eligibility restrictions.
They can, however, make the administrative rails more programmable.
For ARK, this is its first fund to move onchain through Securitize.
That makes the launch more significant than another blockchain experiment.
A $1.3 billion venture strategy is now being used to test whether tokenization can become part of the normal infrastructure underneath mainstream investment products.
*This article was written by the News Desk and edited by [Samuel Rae](https://www.newsbtc.com/author/rae-samuel/).*
