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Hamilton Lane, a private credit manager managing over $900m in assets, has invested in cryptocurrency by offering a tokenized private credit fund in Solana. This particular move is part of the shift whereby institutions in the mainstream traditional financial sector are slowly opening up to the democratization of the digital asset trading sphere.
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 🚨BREAKING BIG: $900 billion asset manager Hamilton Lane becomes the first asset manager to launch a fund on the <a href="https://twitter.com/solana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@solana</a> blockchain. <a href="https://t.co/xT2UDYlLCY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/xT2UDYlLCY</a>— SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) <a href="https://twitter.com/SolanaFloor/status/1815705599088197778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">July 23, 2024</a>
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Tokenization of SCOPE Fund on Solana
Hamilton Lane management firm reported that they got the ability to issue a private credit fund linked to the Solana network. As a way for the adoption of a blockchain-based DLT, the firm linked it with the credit management fund called ‘Senior Credit Opportunities Fund’ in which the firm has total assets of around $556 Million.
To facilitate this initiative, Hamilton Lane partnered with Libre, a Web3 protocol developed through a joint venture between Brevan Howard’s WebN Group and Nomura’s crypto firm Laser Digital. This partnership aims to reach investors, potentially broadening Hamilton Lane’s investor base and distribution channels.
Increasing Accessibility and Liquidity
The Real World Assets (RWAs) include; debt, equities, real estate, mutual funds by any other investment that is liquid and restricted to traditional financial markets, and tokenization of which is believed to improve their liquidity, transparency, and market openness.&nbsp;
In the case of full tokenization of assets, it opens the possibility of issuing the claims of ownership with immediate transfer ability and their conversion to other cryptocurrencies in the secondary markets.
This is in confirmation of some of the prevailing trends across the financial industry in which both BlackRock and many of the other massive firms have also shown interest in the idea of implementing tokenization in more traditional forms of assets.
In general, the fund is still giving returns between 10% per annum to its USD investors hence fulfilling its role of providing a long-term, stable private market investment avenue. Using Solana integration, Hamilton Lane is setting everyone up for success and ensuring that a larger part of the population gets an efficient route to tap into quality private credit investments.
Potential Implications for Solana ETF Approval
In a recent update from the President of The ETF Store, Nate Geraci, the idea of a spot Solana ETF is not out of reach. Specifically, based on Geraci’s insight, we may have ETF issuers like BlackRock, Fidelity, or VanEck potentially applying for a joint Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) ETF at some point
The ETF traders are currently trading in Bitcoin ETFs and the growing spot Ethereum ETFs which are newly launched and approved by the U.S. SEC.
As seen with the Solana initiative, blockchain technology has measurable applications for creating institutional-grade financial derivatives.
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Hamilton Lane Launches Tokenized Credit Fund on Solana Blockchain

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