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WisdomTree Tokenized Funds Pass $1.2B in AUM

WisdomTree’s tokenized fund ecosystem surpasses $1.2B in AUM as the firm launches WisdomTree Onchain to unify its blockchain-based investment products.

WisdomTree Tokenized Funds Pass $1.2B in AUM

WisdomTree’s tokenized fund ecosystem has surpassed $1.2 billion in assets under management, extending a rapid expansion from approximately $770 million at the beginning of 2026. The asset manager paired the milestone with the launch of WisdomTree Onchain, a unified brand covering its tokenized funds, blockchain infrastructure and investor platforms. According to the company’s official September 29 announcement, the lineup now comprises 15 SEC-registered funds spanning money markets, equities, fixed income, asset allocation and alternative strategies.

Those funds are available across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Optimism, Plume, Solana and Stellar. The eight-chain footprint represents distribution infrastructure rather than eight separate pools of investor demand, since the same regulated fund can be represented across multiple networks while remaining tied to its existing legal and transfer-agent framework. The broader tokenized RWA sector has similarly moved above $35 billion in distributed asset value, although different analytics platforms classify distributed and represented assets differently.

WTGXX Anchors WisdomTree’s Onchain Expansion

The WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund, or WTGXX, sits at the center of the new structure. The fund invests primarily in short-duration U.S. government instruments and seeks to maintain a $1 net asset value. WisdomTree Securities now provides WTGXX shareholders with 24/7 secondary-market liquidity against USDC by acting as principal from its own inventory, subject to available capital, inventory and market conditions. That capability operates separately from the fund’s conventional primary subscription and redemption process.

The arrangement became possible after WisdomTree received SEC exemptive relief allowing registered tokenized mutual-fund shares to trade and settle continuously through a dealer-principal model. Transactions can settle on-chain after execution and confirmation rather than waiting for the conventional T+1 cycle. “24/7 liquidity” therefore does not mean unlimited guaranteed redemption at every moment, because WisdomTree Securities can pause or restrict its secondary liquidity when inventory or market conditions require it.

Distribution is also expanding outside WisdomTree’s own platforms. A recent collaboration with MoonPay is intended to give eligible U.S. investors another route into WTGXX and eventually use the fund within MoonPay’s stablecoin reserve management. That integration remains an announced distribution pathway rather than evidence that MoonPay has already deployed a disclosed amount of reserves into WTGXX.

The fund sits inside a much larger shift toward blockchain-based government debt. Tokenized U.S. Treasury products reached a $15.2 billion benchmark earlier in 2026, although subsequent measurements vary depending on whether dashboards count distributed, represented or other tokenized structures. The attraction is increasingly operational: Treasury exposure can remain regulated off-chain while its ownership and transfer layer gains faster settlement and greater collateral mobility.

WisdomTree Builds Beyond Tokenized Fund Issuance

WisdomTree Onchain brings four components under one identity: WisdomTree Prime for individual investors, WisdomTree Connect for institutional and B2B distribution, an Onchain Transfer Agent for issuing and servicing digital fund shares, and Onchain Markets. Only the first three represent established infrastructure today; Onchain Markets remains under development and is intended to extend the WTGXX dealer-principal model to other tokenized funds, potentially including ETFs.

The regulatory environment is also becoming more receptive to using tokenized funds inside established financial workflows. Recent CFTC guidance on tokenized collateral and on-chain regulatory records clarified that blockchain representations of otherwise eligible assets can be used by regulated derivatives firms when existing custody, liquidity and legal requirements remain satisfied. Tokenization changes how an asset can move and settle; it does not replace the regulatory status or legal rights of the underlying fund.

WisdomTree’s approximately $176.9 billion global AUM figure provides scale for the initiative, but the company specifies that this number includes Ceres Partners assets from its last reportable period. The $1.2 billion tokenized figure is therefore still a relatively small part of the overall business. What has changed is that the on-chain operation is beginning to look less like an experimental distribution channel and more like a distinct asset-management stack, combining registered funds, transfer-agent infrastructure, stablecoin settlement and around-the-clock secondary liquidity under one operating model.

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