Arcanum Ventures is Backing Strats

John C. Bogle is heralded as a visionary in accomplishing what was once considered a pipe dream. Fund mutualization was “not a thing” back in the 1970s, but “Jack” Bogle understood the market and the potential demand for an instrument that simplified access, mutualized involvement, and reduced fees. Today, Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSAX) is the world’s largest index fund, with over $2.1 trillion in assets under management (AUM). The fund has outperformed 70% of active fund managers, while saving everyday people billions of dollars in fees. 

The ETF took the same packaging insight and built it into the largest financial-product category of the last half-century: ~$19.85 trillion in global AUM at end-2025. The wrapper became more valuable than the sum of its underlyings, further proving the widespread demand for packaged investment opportunities.

While index funds and ETFs now dominate the world of traditional finance, the digital asset space remains largely without an equivalent wrapper. Digital-asset strategies live as scripts, bots, or bespoke vaults and are fragmented across protocols, opaque in their rules, and impossible to hold as a single asset. As the world of traditional finance turns more toward blockchain rails in tokenizing commodities, stocks, and other “real-world assets,” the infrastructure is scrambling to catch up. 

This is why Arcanum Ventures is pleased to announce our support for Strats, a company building the dynamic-ETF wrapper for digital-asset strategies and packaging a whole strategy as one transferable, policy-bound on-chain asset.

What is Strats?

Strats is building a platform where strategy creators issue investment strategies as on-chain assets. A “Strat” can include spot assets, perpetual futures, lending positions, yield-bearing assets, tokenized RWAs, prediction market positions, or combinations of these, all held as a single digital asset. 

A traditional fund or ETF gives investors exposure to a basket, index, manager, or investment mandate. Strats brings that logic on-chain. Each Strat is programmable, policy-bound, and executes only the actions its declared policy permits 

Strats is Solana-first, with an in-house execution engine that integrates with Jupiter, Drift, Orca, Kamino, and other Solana-native venues. EVM expansion is on the roadmap. The engine enforces policy at settlement and emits signed receipts attesting to compliance with declared rules, not to performance, which the platform never guarantees. 

The current product architecture includes several core components:

• Strategy Wrapper: A standardized container for a strategy, including its mandate, parameters, fees, permitted venues, and execution rules.
• Multi-Asset Strategy Design: Strategies span spot, perps, lending, yield, and tokenized RWAs within a single Strat. Multi-chain support is on the roadmap; Solana is the launch chain. 
• Policy-Based Execution: Strategies can execute according to defined rules, not through manual intervention or opaque discretion. 
• Strategy Passport: A verification layer that can show performance history, backtesting, version changes, and live receipts attached to the strategy.
• Three Distribution Tiers: Private (issuer’s own capital), Open (multi-creator marketplace), and Institutional (regulated-venue distribution).

Why Strats Matter

Real-World Asset tokenisation is accelerating. Treasuries, private credit, commodities, equities, real estate, and other real-world assets are steadily moving onto blockchain rails. Major institutions are building infrastructure to support issuance, custody, and trading. Most tokenization efforts focus on the assets themselves; however, no reliable solutions exist to consolidate multiple asset classes into a single executable cross-venue strategy. Strats is building infrastructure designed to solve that problem by combining asset classes across networks into coherent investment products. 

This creates opportunities for several groups:

• Strategy Creators can package expertise, trading models, yield strategies, and portfolio construction techniques into distributable products.
• Allocators gain access to investment opportunities that provide greater transparency into strategy rules, performance history, and execution policies.
• Asset Issuers and Protocols deepen distribution by making them available as components within broader investment strategies.
• Institutions gain access to a framework that more closely resembles familiar investment structures while preserving the benefits of blockchain-based infrastructure.

Traditional finance standardized access to assets through mutual funds and ETFs. Tokenization standardizes ownership of financial assets. Strats sits one layer above both trends by standardizing access to the strategies themselves.

How Arcanum Ventures is Supporting Strats

Arcanum Ventures is working closely with the Strats team across several strategic initiatives as the company advances toward public launch.

Our support includes:

• Strategic Advisory: Guiding product positioning, market strategy, ecosystem growth, and long-term business development
• Partnership Development: Supporting conversations with protocols, asset issuers, liquidity providers, and other organizations to support the growth of the Strats ecosystem
• Product Strategy: Bringing deep knowledge to the development of user journeys across the protocol’s products and features
• Market Intelligence: Providing feedback on industry trends, tokenization developments, institutional adoption, and evolving opportunities across digital asset markets

We believe Strats is pursuing a category that sits at the intersection of tokenization, digital asset management, and programmable finance.

Duncan Murray, Founder and CEO of Strats, had this to say about working with Arcanum Ventures:

“The ETF is arguably the most successful financial-product innovation of the last half-century. Wrapping a strategy into a single ticker built a category that now holds nearly $20 trillion globally. But the ETF wrapper is static. It holds the strategy; it doesn’t execute it.

The next phase of digital-asset infrastructure won’t be defined by tokenized assets alone; it will be defined by tokenized strategies. Investors should be able to access sophisticated, transparent investment products as standardized on-chain wrappers, in the same way ETFs transformed access to traditional markets.

Arcanum brings deep experience across digital-asset ecosystems and a strong investor network. Their support helps accelerate our path to market.”

Carmelo Giuliano, General Partner of Arcanum Ventures, is quoted as saying:

“Most digital asset products today focus on the assets themselves. We believe an equally important opportunity exists in packaging expertise, strategy, and execution into accessible financial products.

The Strats team is approaching this problem from a unique angle. Their vision extends beyond creating another trading platform or investment product. They are building infrastructure that could standardize how strategies are created, distributed, and managed across digital asset markets. We are excited to support the team as they continue executing on that vision.”

About Strats

Strats is the dynamic-ETF wrapper for digital-asset strategies. The platform packages a whole investment strategy: its policy, execution rules, fees, and verifiable history,  as a single on-chain asset. By combining strategy registration, policy-bounded execution, compliance receipts, and tokenized distribution, Strats creates a standardized framework for active strategy management on-chain. Initial deployment is on Solana, integrating with Jupiter, Drift, Orca, and Kamino. EVM expansion is on the roadmap.

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