March 24, 2025 – DigiFT, a licensed on-chain exchange powered by smart contracts for real-world assets, will launch the first on-chain index fund with a fully tokenized stocks portfolio, marking a significant step forward in how portfolios are structured, traded, and managed in a blockchain-native ecosystem.
Unlike existing funds that rely on traditional intermediaries, DigiFT is bringing real-world securities fully on-chain by tokenizing both the fund shares and the underlying stocks. This allows institutional and professional investors to seamlessly trade and manage assets with greater speed and flexibility than ever before.
Solving Traditional Portfolio Management Challenges with Tokenization
Traditionally, funds require complex operational infrastructure, third-party intermediaries, and lengthy settlement cycles. This first-of-a-kind model addresses these inefficiencies by offering:
- More Efficient Portfolio Creation: Fund managers can launch and scale stock portfolios seamlessly on-chain, without opening multiple bank, custodians, and brokerage accounts.
- Automated Investment Management: Portfolio construction and management are fully on-chain, along with fundraising and investor relations, ensuring seamless integration and reducing administrative burdens.
- Real-Time, Verifiable Transparency: Fund portfolio positions are visible on-chain, offering full transparency to fund investors.
- Global Accessibility: Fund investors can subscribe and redeem using stablecoins, eliminating the reliance on banking infrastructure.
- Improve Liquidity & Flexibility: Tokenized fund shares can be directly traded 24/7 with on-chain settlement, enhancing market efficiency.
Hash Global, a Web3 and digital asset investment firm with over $200M in AUM, is expected to be the first fund manager to partner with DigiFT to launch the DigiFT Hash Global AI Index Fund.
The fund aims to provide exposure to the top 10 AI-related stocks like NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Alphabet. DigiFT tokenizes the underlying stocks, ensuring these real-world equities are digitally represented on the blockchain. Hash Global, as the fund manager, will deploy investor capital into tokenized AI related stocks to create a diversified portfolio.
Redefining Portfolio Management with Tokenized Assets
This pioneering model goes beyond creating tokenized fund—it tokenizes the underlying assets themselves, transforming how portfolio managers operate, how investors engage with financial products, and how assets are managed on-chain.
Key Innovations of a Tokenized Fund
- End-to-End Tokenization: Not just fund shares, but the underlying assets are tokenized.
- Seamless Access to Tokenized Assets: No bank account needed, with digital settlement in USDT and USDC.
- Smart Contract-driven Management: Compliance, subscriptions, and investment execution are automated on-chain.
- On-Chain Governance & Transparency: Real-time direct investor access to fund portfolio positions.
- Liquidity Flexibility: Subscription and redemption requests processed daily, with weekly settlement (T+7).
“Tokenizing the underlying assets—not just fund shares—fundamentally transforms how asset management operates, creating unprecedented liquidity, transparency, and accessibility for institutional investors,” said Henry Zhang, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of DigiFT. “By bringing real-world equities fully on-chain, we remove inefficiencies, enhance accessibility, and set a new standard for how portfolios are structured, traded, and managed in a blockchain-native environment.”
Hash Global, the first fund manager expected to leverage this model, also emphasized the significance of this advancement.
“The future of asset management is digital, and tokenization is the key to unlocking greater efficiency and transparency in investment products,” said James Shen, Founding Partner at Hash Global. “Web3 technology brings standardization for all investable assets. We believe equities are the best proxy of real-world economy and the most important RWA that we should bring on-chain for Web3 ecosystem. We start by offering an AI equity index fund including the top 10 AI stocks for both Web3 and Web2 investors. We are working with DigiFT to bring more best-in-kind index funds on-chain to give investors the easiest and cheapest way to access these assets.”
Alongside the AI Index Fund, Hash Global will also offer the DigiFT Hash Global Web3 Index Fund, which provides on-chain exposure to the top 10 crypto assets such as BTC, ETH, and SOL.
Amber Premium, a Nasdaq-listed institutional crypto financial services and solutions provider, is the launch partner for the fund—reinforcing its commitment to pioneering innovative RWA solutions.
How This Compares to Traditional Index Funds
| Feature | DigiFT Tokenized Index Fund | Traditional Index Funds |
|---|---|---|
| Fund Structure | Full on-chain, tokenized assets and fund shares | Traditional financial infrastructure |
| Investor Access | Direct, fractionalized ownership with digital transactions | Requires bank account and intermediaries |
| Operational Efficiency | Smart contract-driven automation | Manual processes with high administrative costs |
| Trading & Liquidity | 24/7 trading on a regulated blockchain exchange | Limited to traditional market hours |
| Compliance & Transparency | On-chain real-time fund verification | Third-party custodian reporting |
DigiFT Hash Global AI and Web3 Index Funds will soon be live, exclusively for accredited and institutional investors.
關於 DigiFT
DigiFT is the first regulatory-compliant exchange for on-chain real-world assets (RWAs) licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and has received Approval in Principle (AIP) from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The platform enables asset owners to issue blockchain-based security tokens, allowing investors to trade with continuous liquidity through an Automated Market Maker (AMM).
About Hash Global
Hash Global is a Web3 and digital asset investment firm founded in 2018, focusing on blockchain-native investment strategies and institutional adoption of digital assets. It is the first fund manager to fully invest an index fund’s underlying into tokenized assets using DigiFT’s infrastructure. For more details, visit www.hashglobal.io.
About Amber Group
Amber International Holding Limited (Nasdaq: AMBR) is a leading provider of institutional crypto financial services & solutions, operating under the brand name “Amber Premium.” As a subsidiary of Amber Group, it provides institutional market access, execution infrastructure, and investment solutions to help institutions and high-net-worth individuals navigate, optimize, and expand their digital asset portfolios. Amber Premium offers a regulated, scalable financial ecosystem powered by proprietary blockchain and financial technologies, AI-driven risk management, and quantitative algorithms across CeFi, DeFi, and OTC markets. For more details, visit www.ambr.io.
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