ARK Invest Puts $1.3B Venture Fund Onchain via Securitize on Ethereum

This is a notable test of whether tokenized private-market exposure can work at venture scale, since the underlying assets—OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe—are exactly the kind of late-stage private names that retail and non-US allocators have struggled to access. Securitize's role as transfer agent and platform matters more than the Ethereum rail itself: the constraint has always been compliance and eligibility, not settlement. The open question is whether tokenized access to a venture book attracts durable demand or remains a distribution experiment, and whether other managers follow with similar vehicles.