Janus Henderson and Centrifuge Launch Tokenized Nasdaq‑100 Fund on Stellar
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Janus Henderson and Centrifuge have launched JQQQ, an issuer‑sponsored on‑chain fund that tracks the Nasdaq‑100 Index on the Stellar blockchain. The fund is issued and managed by Janus Henderson, with Centrifuge providing the blockchain infrastructure and Nasdaq licensing the index. JQQQ is structured as a segregated portfolio of a British Virgin Islands investment company and is available to eligible professional investors outside the United States, with a minimum investment of $100,000. The fund represents the first licensed on‑chain fund that directly tracks a major equity index, offering a new way for institutional investors to gain exposure to the Nasdaq‑100 through tokenized assets on Stellar.
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Nasdaq-100 Index launched onchain fund JQQQ
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- Janus Henderson
- Action：
- launched issuer-sponsored onchain fund
- Object：
- Nasdaq-100 Index
- Occurred (fact side)：
- Oct 27, 00:00
- Published (valid side)：
- Oct 27, 22:21
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- Oct 27, 22:52
- Published (valid side)：
- Oct 28, 00:37
- First seen (known side)：
- Oct 28, 00:55
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- CointelegraphSource report revisedJanus Henderson and Centrifuge Launch Tokenized Nasdaq‑100 Fund on Stellar
Report first recorded Oct 28, 00:55
Janus Henderson Asset Management and tokenization platform Centrifuge have launched a blockchain‑based fund, JQQQ, that tracks the Nasdaq‑100 Index on the Stellar network. The fund is structured as a segregated portfolio of a British Virgin Islands investment company, providing indirect exposure to the index rather than direct ownership of the constituent stocks. It is available only to eligible professional investors outside the United States, with a reported minimum investment of $100,000. The launch follows Nasdaq’s April decision to license its Nasdaq‑100 Index to additional asset managers, and expands Janus Henderson’s on‑chain offerings beyond U.S. Treasuries and structured credit into equity‑index exposure. The asset manager noted that its institutional on‑chain strategies now exceed $1 billion. The move also adds to Stellar’s growing tokenization footprint, which currently hosts about $3.8 billion in tokenized real‑world assets and is set to receive further tokenized assets from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation in 2027.
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- CoinDeskSource report revisedJanus Henderson and Centrifuge launch JQQQ, first licensed Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar blockchain
Report first recorded Oct 27, 22:52
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched JQQQ, an issuer-sponsored fund on the Stellar blockchain that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index. The fund, backed by Janus Henderson and licensed from Nasdaq, marks the first time a traditional stock-market index product has been issued under a license on a public blockchain. It expands Wall Street's tokenization push beyond Treasuries and money market funds into listed equities.
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