Centrifuge has deployed three tokenized fixed-income funds on Circle’s Arc network, bringing exposure to short-duration US Treasuries, AAA-rated collateralised loan obligations and high-yield
Centrifuge has deployed three tokenized fixed-income funds on Circle’s Arc network, bringing exposure to short-duration US Treasuries, AAA-rated collateralised loan obligations and high-yield corporate bonds to the recently launched blockchain. The products—JTRSY, JAAA and HYB—are an early deployment of tokenized fund interests on a network Circle has positioned for stablecoin payments, tokenized assets and capital-markets activity.
The immediate test is not simply whether investors can access fixed-income strategies onchain. Circle’s stated design for Arc includes the use of regulated, yield-bearing tokenized assets as composable collateral in financial applications, putting the utility of the fund tokens beyond distribution at the centre of the launch.
Crypto Briefing reported that Centrifuge deployed JTRSY, JAAA and HYB on Arc. JTRSY provides short-duration US Treasury exposure; JAAA is tied to AAA-rated CLOs; and HYB provides exposure to high-yield corporate bonds.
Rather than a single cash-management offering, Arc now has tokenized products associated with several distinct fixed-income strategies: government debt, highly rated structured credit and a riskier corporate-bond segment.
Circle launched Arc’s public mainnet on September 16, 2026. In its mainnet announcement, the company said the network was intended for stablecoin-native payments, tokenized assets and capital-markets use cases, and named Janus Henderson and New York Life Investment Management as asset managers working with Centrifuge to bring tokenized products to Arc.
That timing places the Centrifuge deployment within weeks of the public-mainnet launch. It also provides a concrete initial set of credit-linked assets against which Arc’s institutional-market proposition can be assessed.
Centrifuge identifies HYB as NYLIM’s first tokenized fund, distinguishing it from the two Janus Henderson-linked offerings among the three products associated with Janus Henderson and New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM).
NYLIM managed approximately $807 billion in assets, according to a Centrifuge recap published in July. That number provides scale context for HYB’s tokenization, but not the amount represented by the Arc product itself; Circle’s September announcement did not provide asset levels, trading volumes or collateral-usage figures for the individual funds.
Centrifuge’s documentation describes JTRSY and JAAA as tokenized fund-share products. The tokens carry direct claims on the underlying assets and provide in-kind redemption rights, according to the fund documentation.
For JTRSY specifically, the documentation describes direct ownership of US Treasury bills through tokenized fund shares. That structure is material to the product’s positioning: the onchain token represents a fund share with a stated claim on the underlying holdings, rather than merely tracking a Treasury-related reference price.
The supplied documentation addresses the fund-share mechanics of JTRSY and JAAA but provides less product-level detail for HYB. Accordingly, the available record supports only a narrower description of the high-yield offering: a tokenized fund providing high-yield corporate-bond exposure.
Circle has framed Arc as a network where tokenized funds can serve as composable collateral for trading, lending and other financial applications. Centrifuge’s deployment consequently puts regulated, yield-bearing assets in an environment designed to support those uses.
Collateral use could connect the fund shares to onchain financial activity while allowing the underlying strategies to remain focused on their respective fixed-income exposures. Whether that occurs at scale will depend on adoption by applications and market participants, an outcome not established by the launch announcement.
For now, the deployment gives Arc three products across Treasury, CLO and high-yield credit markets, with JTRSY and JAAA carrying documented direct-claim and in-kind-redemption features. HYB’s arrival as NYLIM’s first tokenized fund adds a separate asset-manager milestone to the network’s early roster.
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