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Most people buy a bond or a fund share through a broker, and their ownership ends up recorded in databases that banks and clearing firms reconcile over several days. A small but fast-growing corner of finance is trying to rewire that plumbing by issuing those same investments as digital tokens on a blockchain, where ownership can be tracked and transferred almost instantly. This field, usually called tokenization, or the market for digital-asset securities, aims to take real-world assets such as bonds, credit funds and even company stock and represent them onchain.
The idea has moved from theory to practice at a quick pace. Large asset managers including BlackRock, Apollo and KKR have already put credit and money-market strategies onchain, and the value of tokenized real-world assets climbed from roughly $23 billion at the end of 2025 to about $31 billion by March 2026. Supporters say tokenized funds can settle faster, cut paperwork and reach investors anywhere in the world. Skeptics counter that secondary trading in these products remains thin and the rules are still taking shape.
That backdrop helps explain a launch announced by Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ), a Miami company that builds the infrastructure others use to create and manage tokenized investments. Securitize runs a group of regulated businesses, including a transfer agent, a broker-dealer and a fund-administration arm, and it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in early July 2026. Working with Neuberger, a large, privately held investment manager founded in 1939, it introduced the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund, known by the short name HINC.
HINC is built around high-yield bonds, the higher-paying and higher-risk corner of corporate debt, and it can also hold instruments such as collateralized loan obligations and leveraged loans. Neuberger acts as the subadvisor, which means it makes the day-to-day investment decisions, drawing on a fixed income platform that oversees more than $230 billion. This is the first time the firm has agreed to subadvise a tokenized fund, a sign that established managers are growing more comfortable with the format.
What sets the fund apart is where it lives. Rather than picking a single network, Securitize is issuing HINC across four blockchains at once (Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Sui), giving eligible investors more than one way to hold and move their tokens. Access is far from open, though. The fund is limited to accredited investors and qualified purchasers, and buyers must clear identity and anti-money-laundering checks and meet the securities rules of their home country. Securitize Capital serves as the fund’s investment adviser, while an affiliated firm handles the sale of interests.
For Securitize, the deal is about credibility as much as fees. Bringing in a manager of Neuberger’s standing, a firm that oversees $613 billion across stocks, bonds and private markets, helps prove the company’s technology to other institutions still deciding whether to follow. That carries weight for a business this size. Securitize is a small-cap stock worth around $915 million, and its shares have swung sharply since the listing, trading recently near $5.70 after reaching almost $14 earlier in the year. Winning work from well-known names is one of the clearest paths it has to steady, recurring revenue.
The launch fits a wider pattern rather than standing alone. Securitize already tokenizes funds for Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck, and it now oversees more than $5 billion in tokenized assets. Whether products like HINC draw lasting demand will hinge on questions that are still unanswered: how deep the trading becomes, how regulators treat these instruments over time and whether the promised savings actually appear. The plain takeaway is that a once-experimental idea is being handed, step by step, to some of the biggest names in traditional money management.
