ARK tokenizes its venture fund on Ethereum

ARK Invest and Securitize announced tokenized interests in the ARK Venture Fund, bringing ARKVX onto Ethereum for eligible investors. The fund had about $1.3 billion in net assets and holds both private and public technology companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks.

Securitize provides the issuance and investor infrastructure. The blockchain token represents an interest in ARKVX rather than direct tokenized ownership of the individual companies held by the fund.

The move changes the ownership and distribution layer, not the fund's investment mandate. ARKVX remains an interval fund with its existing liquidity mechanics, so putting the interest on Ethereum does not automatically create continuous trading or turn private portfolio companies into freely transferable onchain shares.