Working title: Hamco to Launch Semi-Liquid Pan-Asia Private Equity Fund Natively On-Chain with Synthesys and Chainlink
Status: Final (16 Sep 2026) — pending Hamco and Chainlink confirmation. Do not distribute externally.
Announcement Blog Draft
The new tokenized fund will offer investors fractionalized exposure to the region's hardest-to-reach private markets; AI, semiconductors and unicorn pre-IPO equities, with liquidity engineered from tokenized funds, stablecoins, cash equivalents and liquid assets.
22 September 2026 — Hamco, in collaboration with Synthesys and Chainlink, today announced the Hamco Tokenized Pan-Asia Private Equity Fund, giving eligible investors access to hard-to-reach private and pre-IPO opportunities across Asia, on top of liquidity benefits from tokenized money markets and stablecoins.
The semi-liquid, evergreen private equity fund is established as a native fund structure in the Cayman Islands and issued through Mint, which brings together Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard, and NAVLink into a single framework, with distribution through Synthesys Network's regulated distributor channels from day one.
While investor demand for private equity has continued to accelerate, delivering some of the strongest long-term returns of any asset class, but it has also remained one of the least accessible. PE funds has also been conventionally illiquid, and have never had a reliable mechanism to fund redemptions, until tokenized liquidity and credit options came to market, which enabled allocators and fund managers a new alternative to manage liquidity.
The Hamco Pan-Asia PE Fund is structured around these challenges. Managing allocations into hard-to-reach private, illiquid investments across Pan-Asia Pre-IPO positions, cornerstone/PIPE allocations, private credit and direct unicorn investments, while its liquid portfolio deploys into select listed companies, tokenized money market and credit funds and stablecoins. Tapping into tokenized instruments that can be subscribed and redeemed on-chain with near-instant settlement functioning as a true liquidity engine, enabling the fund to meet liquidity requirements that traditional PE structures cannot.
“Throughout the past two decades, Pan-Asia's defining technology companies have generated exceptional returns, yet access to these opportunities has remained fairly restrictive, concentrated within a narrow group of institutions. Private equity is, by its nature, a long-term asset class, and investors must approach it with a long-term investment horizon. In our view, an evergreen structure makes sense for capturing this return profile while aligning with the patience the asset class demands. By distributing the fund natively on-chain, a tokenized structure enhances both operational efficiency and investor accessibility, without compromising the institutional governance and controls that define disciplined private equity,” said Eddy Chow, CEO, Hamco.
“Private equity was the asset class tokenization supposedly couldn't do. But Hamco has engineered in liquidity into a digitally native vehicle, with its sleeve of tokenized money market funds, tokenized credit and stablecoins enabling on-chain fund management in near real time without relying on a reconciliation lag between the portfolio and the register. The fund will be live on Synthesys Network from day one, reaching global regulated channels across different jurisdictions for widespread distribution — that is how private markets come on-chain,” said Darien Poh, CEO, Synthesys.
Asia's technology decade is being built in private markets. The companies defining artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics across the region are staying private for longer, and by the time they reach public exchanges, much of the value creation has already happened, captured by the closed circle of institutions and insiders able to invest early. Investors who can only buy at the IPO are increasingly buying the ending and not the growth story itself.
Access to that story shouldn't be limited to a select few. The fund is designed to open it, and unlike traditional private equity vehicles, it is built for how investors actually allocate. Its tokenized shares are fractionalized, lowering the barrier to entry that has kept private equity behind large minimums; with better liquidity windows for subscriptions and redemption windows; and the NAV is transparent and verifiable on-chain, rather than a periodic statement against an opaque book.
What makes those terms possible, rather than promises, is the structure underneath them.
“Tokenization matters when it changes what a fund can do, not simply how ownership is recorded,” said Niki Ariyasinghe, VP of APAC and ME at Chainlink Labs. “Hamco is applying it to one of private equity’s hardest challenges: expanding investor access while preserving the controls and liquidity discipline the asset class requires. With Chainlink enabling verifiable data, secure cross-chain connectivity and programmable fund operations, this launch provides a practical blueprint for bringing private-market strategies to investors at scale.”
The fund will be available to Non-US professional/accredited investors meeting applicable eligibility criteria, minimum investment thresholds and subject to the investment documentation.