Tokenized Funds Are Winning Flows – But Is the Plumbing Ready?
- Rick Lake, CAIA, CETF, CBDA
- Jul 19, 2025
- 1 min read
Written for Digital Asset Council of Financial Professionals (DACFP) : THE BALANCED LEDGER
Date: July 19th, 2025.
Why it matters to your reputation, your clients, and your future as an advisor.
1. The Flows Are Real – So Is the Infrastructure Shift
BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund hit $2 billion in AUM in just over a year. WisdomTree launched a full suite of 13 tokenized mutual funds. Franklin Templeton launched the first ever mutual fund to go live on a public blockchain.
As many advisors watched from the sidelines, tokenization has quietly become institutional reality.
This isn’t crypto rebranded. It’s a new way of issuing, managing, and tracking investment funds. And it’s moving from experiment to execution – fast.
Financial advisors don’t need to master the underlying code. But you do need to understand the new pipes being laid beneath the fund industry. Because when the plumbing changes, so does everything built on top of it.
This is an excerpt of the full article written here:
by by By Rick Lake, CAIA, CETF, CBDA | Founder, Narrative Alpha
