Wood You Believe It: ARK Takes a Venture Fund Onchain 🌲

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest has launched a tokenized version of the ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum through Securitize, opening qualified investors to a blockchain-based share of a portfolio built around disruptive technology companies. The vehicle, branded ARKVX, is an actively managed interval fund that targets long-term capital growth and currently counts OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks among its holdings, though ARK noted that portfolio composition is subject to change.

Tokenized interests in ARKVX are issued and serviced onchain by Securitize, which is handling the investor experience for the Ethereum-based launch. ARK and Securitize indicated that additional blockchain networks could be added after the initial rollout, and stressed that the tokenization represents claims on the fund itself rather than on the individual underlying companies. The product is not being listed for retail trading at launch.

ARK framed the move as an extension of its stated mission to broaden access to innovation-themed investment vehicles. "Putting ARKVX onchain extends ARK's goal of widening access to technology-focused investment products," Wood said, describing tokenization as a new avenue for reaching both private and public markets through a single structure. Securitize separately positioned the launch as further validation of regulated onchain infrastructure for institutional capital.

The launch follows ARK Invest's $10 million strategic investment in Securitize announced in October 2025, an agreement centered on regulated tokenized securities and bringing traditional fund products onto blockchain rails. Securitize, the issuance and transfer agent for ARKVX, has been building out its regulated tokenization stack as more asset managers explore onchain wrappers for private and alternative investments. ARK's venture-focused interval fund joins a growing roster of tokenized funds using Ethereum as the base settlement layer.