TLDR ARK Invest and Securitize announced the tokenization of the ARK Venture Fund on Sept. 24, 2026. The tokenized fund will launch on Ethereum, with Securitize handling onchain issuance and
ARK Invest, the investment firm founded by Cathie Wood, is bringing its ARK Venture Fund onto the Ethereum blockchain. The firm announced the move with Securitize, a company that builds tools for tokenized assets.
The announcement came on Sept. 24, 2026. Eligible investors who access the fund through Securitize will be able to hold a blockchain-based version of their stake.
The fund had grown to roughly $1.3 billion in assets by late June. Its portfolio includes stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks, among other technology companies.
Securitize will handle the fund’s onchain issuance and the investor experience. The tokenized version will be available on Ethereum at launch.
Investors are not getting blockchain versions of OpenAI or Anthropic shares. Instead, they receive an onchain representation of their interest in the fund that owns those stakes.
The ARK Venture Fund is not an exchange-traded fund. It is an actively managed closed-end interval fund that invests in both private and public companies.
Its target mix is about 80% private companies and 20% public companies. Investors cannot sell shares whenever they want.
The fund offers quarterly repurchase windows for about 5% of outstanding shares. If too many investors ask to sell at once, requests may be reduced on a prorated basis.
“Tokenizing the ARK Venture Fund puts our conviction in the evolution, if not revolution, of capital markets into practice,” said Wood, who serves as founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest.
Wood said the move is part of the firm’s mission to widen access to disruptive innovation. She added that Securitize has built the regulated infrastructure needed to make that possible.
Carlos Domingo, co-founder and CEO of Securitize, said ARK’s investment in his company reflected a shared belief in tokenization. He said the launch shows how asset managers can move established investment products onto modern capital markets infrastructure.
ARK Invest made a strategic investment in Securitize in October 2025. That deal set the stage for the new product.
Securitize manages about $5 billion in assets as of August 2026. It works with firms such as Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck, and says it is the only company running regulated digital securities infrastructure in both the U.S. and EU.
The ARK Venture Fund launched on Sept. 23, 2022. Its net asset value started near $20 per share.
By Sept. 23, 2026, the NAV stood at about $60.50. That is roughly three times its starting level, before accounting for share class and distribution differences.
Returns have varied from year to year. The fund gained about 61% in 2023, 7% in 2024 and 56% in 2025.
The fund carries a net expense ratio of about 2.90% and has limited liquidity. Valuations of private holdings can change sharply when those companies raise new money.
In the second quarter of 2026, the fund returned 20.21%. ARK Invest named SpaceX and Anthropic as the biggest contributors to that gain.
So far in 2026, the fund is up around 32% through late September. Eligible investors can find details on the tokenized version at securitize.io/arkvx.
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