ARK Invest is tokenizing its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) through a partnership with Securitize, placing one of Cathie Wood’s flagship investment products on blockchain infrastructure.

The tokenized fund will launch on Ethereum, with ARK and Securitize saying that additional networks could be supported later. Eligible investors will be able to access the tokenized version of the fund with a minimum investment of $500, according to the announcement.

Today, we’re bringing the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) onchain with @ARKInvest and making it available on @ethereum . For the first time, eligible investors can access the tokenized version of ARK’s flagship disruptive innovation fund with a minimum investment of $500. pic.twitter.com/J9ME81et8D — Securitize (@Securitize) September 24, 2026

The fund provides exposure to private technology companies and currently holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks. It is structured as an actively managed, closed-end interval fund that invests in both private and public companies associated with what ARK calls disruptive innovation. Unlike conventional mutual funds or ETFs, interval funds do not permit daily redemptions and instead offer to repurchase shares at scheduled intervals, a design suited to portfolios holding illiquid private assets. ARK has said that the fund’s holdings are subject to change over time.

The tokenization does not make the underlying companies directly tradable onchain. OpenAI and Anthropic, for example, will remain private companies. Shares in companies like these do not trade on public exchanges, which has historically kept direct stakes largely in the hands of venture funds and other private-market investors. Instead, investors will receive a blockchain-based token representing their interest in the ARK Venture Fund.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said the structure allows investors to gain exposure to several artificial intelligence companies rather than having to identify which individual company will be successful.

“The underlying assets will still remain private, but the investment of the end users will be liquid,” Domingo said. The comment speaks to the interval fund’s defining trade-off: without daily redemptions, shareholder liquidity ordinarily depends on the scheduled repurchase offers.

Securitize plans to provide the fund’s net asset value daily and enable fund interests to trade on blockchain-based markets. The tokenized version of ARKVX is expected to become available on Ethereum following the announcement.

Shares of Securitize rose as much as 15% after the announcement, reaching a new high since the company’s public debut in June. The stock has nearly doubled over the past week, following a separate announcement from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Last week, the SEC introduced a five-year “innovation exemption” intended to make it easier for certain tokenized stocks to trade on specially built onchain venues. The exemption gives financial firms a new route for testing blockchain-based securities. Regulators have said they want more of the market to move onchain over time.

ARK’s initiative follows a broader expansion of blockchain-based financial products among Wall Street asset managers. Earlier tokenization efforts focused primarily on U.S. Treasuries and money-market funds, including BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and Franklin Templeton’s BENJI fund. Asset managers are now also moving into equities and private markets.

Citi analysts have projected that tokenized securities could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030 under their base case. For ARKVX, the near-term items to watch are operational: whether the tokenized interests begin trading on blockchain-based markets as planned, and whether support expands to the additional networks the firms said could follow.

The ARK and Securitize partnership is not new. ARK made a strategic investment in Securitize last year, when the two firms to bring more regulated investment products onchain. Wood described the ARK Venture Fund tokenization as a step toward that shared objective.

“Tokenizing the ARK Venture Fund puts our conviction in the evolution, if not revolution, of capital markets into practice,” Wood said in a statement.

Domingo said the collaboration demonstrates how established investment products can be moved onto newer infrastructure and reflects a longer-term strategy rather than a one-time announcement.

The announcement was reported by CoinCentral. The companies’ announcement is available through PR Newswire.