HedgeCo.Net — ARK Invest and Securitize on September 24, 2026 announced tokenization of the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) for eligible investors on Ethereum, according to Securitize’s release and The Block. ARKVX is an actively managed closed-end interval fund investing across private and public innovation companies.
Securitize and Unchained reported about $1.3 billion in net assets, with roughly 62% in private companies as of June 30. Eligible U.S. investors can buy tokenized interests with USDC through Securitize; tokens are described as backed one-to-one by fund shares held with custodian BNY Mellon.
Liquidity remains the fund’s capped quarterly repurchase offers of up to 5% of outstanding shares; secondary and DeFi trading is described as limited or coming later. Unchained cited a 2% transaction fee on deposits and annual expenses of 3.49% (2.90% after waivers).
For crypto and private-markets desks watching onchain wrappers of regulated vehicles, the hard marks are the about $1.3 billion net assets, ~62% private-company exposure as of June 30, quarterly repurchase caps at 5%, USDC purchase path via Securitize, and BNY Mellon custody of the underlying shares. Do not invent secondary-trading volumes or DeFi venue listings beyond published descriptions.