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Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital has moved its Alternative Solutions Fund onto public blockchains through tokenization protocol KAIO, drawing about $75 million across the Base, Solana and Sui networks.
Shrey Rastogi, co-founder and chief executive of KAIO, discussed the launch on the Unchained Premium podcast, saying the partnership marks one of the first times a sovereign-linked fund has shifted assets onto public blockchains.
Coinbase took a balance-sheet position in the tokenized product, while total asset value stood at $39.66 million as of Aug. 5, according to rwa.xyz. The deal extends Mubadala's broader push into digital assets: Mubadala Investment Company raised its stake in BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF, IBIT, by 16 percent to 14.7 million shares in the first quarter, and Al Warda Investments held about 8.2 million IBIT shares at the end of 2025.
The launch gives sovereign capital a regulated on-ramp to tokenized real-world assets, a market that platforms are racing to capture as institutions seek yield-bearing exposure on-chain. The next test is whether the fund's TVL climbs toward the $75 million announced and whether Mubadala extends the structure to other funds in its portfolio.
Mubadala, which manages hundreds of billions of dollars, has built its digital-asset exposure through two paths: direct bitcoin ETF holdings and tokenized funds. Its IBIT position, combined with Al Warda's, topped $1 billion at year-end 2025 prices. The emirate's Abu Dhabi Global Market free zone, regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority, has licensed virtual-asset activity since 2018, giving firms a rulebook years before most jurisdictions. Hub71, the government-linked accelerator backed by Mubadala, runs a dedicated digital-assets track, while the Blockchain Center Abu Dhabi works on adoption projects including AE Coin, the UAE's regulated dirham-linked stablecoin effort.
The KAIO fund joins a wave of tokenized real-world asset products that let investors buy fractional stakes in credit, property and other assets that once required larger checks. Coinbase's balance-sheet position ties a major exchange directly to a sovereign-backed fund, linking institutional capital to the crypto infrastructure most retail users already trade on. Whether the $39.66 million TVL grows toward the announced $75 million will signal how much appetite sovereign-linked funds have for public-blockchain exposure.
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