Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood Plans to Transition the Firm’s Funds to Blockchain.

Cathie Wood Wants to Tokenize Ark Invest Funds as Regulatory Outlook Improves

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood is looking to bring some of the firm’s funds on-chain, provided the regulatory environment in the U.S. evolves to support such initiatives.

“We see massive potential in tokenization,” Wood said at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on Tuesday. “Our goal is to tokenize our Venture Fund (ARKVX) and Digital Asset Revolution Fund when the regulatory landscape permits.”

Wood believes that regulatory momentum is shifting in favor of tokenized assets, opening the door for firms like Ark to embrace blockchain-based financial products.

Despite this optimism, challenges remain. U.S. regulators have yet to establish clear guidelines for security tokens, limiting the ability of investment firms to fully participate in what analysts predict could be a multi-trillion-dollar market by 2030.

Coinbase, one of Ark’s key holdings, has also hinted at tokenization plans. Earlier this month, at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference, Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas revealed that the company is engaging with the SEC about issuing a security token—a concept it previously explored in 2020 when attempting to go public.

However, Jesse Pollack, founder of Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by Coinbase, clarified on X that while discussions are ongoing, there are currently no formal plans to tokenize Coinbase’s stock.

“We’re still in the early stages, working to understand what regulatory requirements need to be addressed to bring assets like $COIN to @base in a compliant and sustainable way,” Pollack said.