ARKVX, the flagship venture fund from
@ARKInvest, coming onchain today through
@Securitize is an important step for private-market access.
What stands out is not only that eligible investors can gain exposure to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. It is that the fund interest itself can now operate on programmable rails.
That distinction matters.
Private-market funds have NAV calculations, eligibility checks and non-instant settlement. With standards like ERC-7540, those realities can be represented onchain rather than spread across separate systems.
ARKVX brings that model into venture investing. As more private-market funds follow, the opportunity extends beyond tokenization itself to the markets that can form around these assets: liquidity, financing and integration across onchain markets.