Digital Assets Fund Management

Introduction

CV5 Capital is delighted to announce its sponsorship of the Digital Assets Forum, taking place inLondon between 5-6 February 2026, bringing together leading institutional allocators, asset managers, and innovators shaping the future of the digital assets industry.

In the hedge fund industry, bigger isn’t always better. While established multi-billion dollar funds command most of the attention and assets, a compelling body of evidence suggests that emerging managers—typically defined as funds with less than $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) and fewer than five years of track record, consistently deliver superior returns during their early years.

Fund tokenization is the issuance of fund interests (shares/units/limited partnership interests) in a form that is represented and transferrable as a digital token on a blockchain or other distributed ledger, with transfer restrictions and investor eligibility enforced through a mix of legal terms, onboarding controls, and smart-contract logic.

Indian fund managers are increasingly looking beyond domestic boundaries when structuring and launching investment funds, particularly as strategies become more global, complex, and operationally demanding. At the same time, expectations from regulators, institutional investors, and counterparties are rising. In this environment, regulated, institutional-grade platforms have become essential. One platform that has emerged as a clear leader for Indian managers is CV5 Capital.

Bitcoin options have matured into a core portfolio tool for BTC focused fund managers, particularly those who want to reduce drawdowns, target more stable return profiles, or monetize volatility risk premia.

Cold storage has become one of the most important topics in digital asset fund investing as institutional capital continues to enter the market. For investors, understanding how assets are held, secured, and exposed to counterparty risk is now as critical as understanding the strategy itself.

Impact investing has moved decisively from niche to mainstream. Institutional allocators, family offices, and sovereign investors are increasingly seeking measurable social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns. As a result, impact investment funds now represent one of the fastest-growing segments of global asset management.

Japan is undergoing a structural transformation in its asset management industry. Long regarded as a conservative market dominated by domestic institutions and traditional strategies, Japan is now seeing a growing wave of entrepreneurial fund managers launching new investment funds focused on Japanese equities, credit, special situations, and alternative strategies.

Launching a hedge fund—whether in traditional markets or digital assets, is no longer just about performance. For emerging managers, attracting early capital, building momentum, and establishing credibility requires a thoughtful alignment of interests with investors. One of the most effective tools to achieve this is a strategically designed fee and incentive structure.

A biotechnology hedge fund is a specialist hedge fund that primarily invests in public and/or private life-sciences and healthcare companies, and uses tools such as leverage, short selling, derivatives and event-driven positioning to manage risk and generate absolute returns.

Artificial intelligence has become the defining capital expenditure theme of this market cycle. The surge in demand for GPUs, data centres, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven software has pushed companies across sectors to raise unprecedented amounts of capital. While public equity markets celebrate the potential upside of AI, the credit markets are signalling a very different story: AI is helping drive a notable rise in high-yield (junk bond) issuance and contributing to widening spreads.

Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) investing has evolved from a niche thematic strategy into a core requirement for a growing segment of institutional allocators. Today, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, family offices, pension schemes, and mission-driven allocators increasingly demand investment products that not only deliver returns, but also demonstrate measurable impact, transparency, and responsible stewardship.

A new digital asset hedge fund, Arkangel Fund SP, has been launched via the leading institutional digital asset manager, CV5 Capital, with investment strategy lead by Arkangel Wealth Management.

The rapid institutionalization of digital assets has created a surge in new fund launches, strategies, and investment vehicles. Yet the volatility of the asset class—combined with the operational failures seen across exchanges, lenders, and custodians, means that robust investor due diligence has never been more important.

At CV5 Capital, we obtain ISINs and associated security identifiers for every fund and every share class launched under the CV5 Digital SPC umbrella, including both traditional and digital-asset strategies. This ensures full interoperability with global financial infrastructure and satisfies the requirements of institutional allocators, fund administrators, banks, custodians, and exchanges.

The Cayman Islands has now formally committed to the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and has begun implementing it through domestic regulations. For Cayman-based funds, VASPs and other crypto-facing entities, this marks a significant new layer of tax-transparency reporting alongside FATCA and CRS.

How blockchain rails, smart contracts, and institutional adoption will reshape global derivatives markets Tokenization is already transforming money-market funds, private credit, real estate and fund structures. The next frontier, and one of the largest potential markets of all, is derivatives.

The Cayman Islands remains the world’s leading jurisdiction for hedge funds, private equity vehicles, digital asset funds, and multi-strategy structures. As a globally integrated financial centre, Cayman is fully aligned with international tax transparency standards, including the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS).

In today’s competitive investment landscape, hedge fund managers face increasingly discerning investors, heightened regulatory expectations, and a global shift toward institutional-grade oversight. Among the most fundamental, and non-negotiable, requirements for earning allocator confidence is the presence of a credible, independently audited track record.

The last three years have delivered some of the most significant operational and counterparty-risk failures in modern financial history. From the collapse of FTX and Celsius to the banking failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, the digital-asset liquidation cascade at Binance, and the high-profile Stream Finance DeFi hack, these events have highlighted one unmistakable truth:

For more than two decades, the Cayman Islands has been the default home for global hedge funds. Despite the rise of Singapore’s Variable Capital Company (VCC), Luxembourg AIFs, and Guernsey structures, Cayman continues to dominate both traditional hedge funds and, even more strikingly, digital asset funds.

As the global alternative investment landscape accelerates, emerging hedge fund managers face unprecedented opportunity, paired with rising expectations from institutional allocators. The days when a talented portfolio manager could launch a fund on a shoestring budget are long gone. Today, institutional investors demand fully developed infrastructure, strong governance, and a clear operational roadmap from day one.

India has emerged as one of the world’s most dynamic investment markets, driven by strong GDP growth, rising digitization, regulatory modernization, and deepening capital markets. Global allocators and asset managers are increasingly seeking exposure to Indian equities, private credit, venture capital, and structured opportunities.

Launching a hedge fund is one of the most exciting steps an investment professional can take, but also one of the most complex. Whether you are a first-time manager or an established asset manager looking to expand into a new strategy, the early decisions you make will determine the fund’s long-term scalability, investor appeal, and regulatory resilience.

Prediction markets are no longer niche. With platform valuations entering billions, weekly volumes at multi-billion levels, and major institutions signalling interest, we are witnessing the beginning of the institutional phase for this asset class. For forward-looking fund managers, the question is not whether to engage, but how. The difference will lie in choosing platforms and fund structures built for scale, not speculation.And that’s precisely where CV5 Capital positions itself: bridging innovation with institutional-grade infrastructure.

The global hedge fund industry’s relationship with digital assets is maturing rapidly. According to the 7th Annual Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report (2025) by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), PwC, and Elwood Technologies, institutional adoption of digital assets is no longer a question of if, but how.The report reveals a sector that has weathered volatility and emerged with stronger infrastructure, better governance, and growing allocator interest. For regulated fund platforms like CV5 Capital, these findings reinforce what we see daily, digital assets are now part of mainstream alternative investment strategies.

The Cayman Islands has become one of the most important global hubs for digital-asset fund formation. As managers increasingly launch regulated hedge funds with exposure to cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, or decentralized finance strategies, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has clarified its expectations for funds registered under the Mutual Funds Act (as Revised) that invest in or manage digital assets.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has transformed from a niche experiment into a global phenomenon. Billions of dollars in assets now flow through automated protocols, decentralized exchanges, and on-chain yield platforms. DeFi’s core proposition, open, programmable financial infrastructure without intermediaries, is revolutionary.

The global fund landscape is changing rapidly. Across hedge funds, digital-asset vehicles, and alternative investment structures, regulatory and governance expectations have expanded dramatically over the past few years. What was once a periodic compliance formality has evolved into a continuous, data-driven, and highly scrutinised obligation, one that can easily consume valuable time and bandwidth from managers whose core focus should remain on generating returns and protecting investor capital.

A curated digest of key developments in the hedge fund, crypto fund and broader financial-markets arenas — with commentary on what this means for managers launching or operating funds in the digital-asset and alternative-investment space.

In today’s globally interconnected markets, hedge funds routinely invest across multiple regions and asset classes, from U.S. equities to Asian credit and European digital assets. While these investments create opportunities for diversification and alpha generation, they also expose the fund to foreign exchange (FX) risk. Managing FX exposure effectively is therefore a critical component of both portfolio management and investor relations, especially when a fund offers multiple currency share classes.

CV5 Capital, the institutional platform for digital-asset funds, today announced the launch of its dedicated Venture Capital arm, focused on early- and growth-stage investments in Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and GameFi projects across global markets.

CV5 Capital has designed a Cayman Islands–regulated framework under CV5 Digital SPC, our umbrella platform for digital asset funds, that enables managers and treasury investors to establish a Bitcoin-focused fund within weeks, combining the governance of a hedge fund with the flexibility of on-chain operations.

The intersection of gaming and blockchain technology, better known as GameFi, is rapidly transforming how digital value is created, traded, and owned. As blockchain-based games mature from speculative projects to full-scale digital economies, institutional investors are beginning to take notice. At CV5 Capital, we’re helping managers structure and launch regulated Cayman hedge funds dedicated to the GameFi sector, combining on-chain exposure with institutional governance. This article outlines how to design, launch, and operate a compliant fund focused on the booming world of GameFi and blockchain gaming.

Institutional yield has moved on-chain. The category once limited to over-collateralized crypto lending now includes true private credit, tokenized loans to real businesses, funds, and market makers, delivered with on-chain transparency, automated cash flows, and faster settlement.

Raising capital for a hedge fund has never been more complex, or more global. As investors diversify across jurisdictions and asset classes, fund managers must navigate a patchwork of private placement regimes that govern how funds can be marketed and distributed to professional or sophisticated investors in each region. At the same time, regulated fund platforms have emerged as a compliant and cost-efficient bridge, allowing emerging managers to access institutional-grade distribution channels without the burden of maintaining multiple cross-border registrations.

In the rapidly evolving universe of digital assets, hedge funds are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) with increasing conviction.

Over the past year, a clear trend has emerged among digital-asset managers and institutional allocators: a decisive shift away from Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) toward regulated crypto hedge funds.

Learn how CV5 Capital’s Cayman-regulated fund platform enables managers to launch digital-asset hedge funds in just 3–4 weeks.

The New Age of Fund Governance. Hedge fund board meetings have long been essential to the fiduciary oversight process, a structured forum for reviewing fund performance, risk, compliance, valuation, and investor matters. Yet, for decades, these meetings have largely relied on static board packs, backward-looking data, and manual preparation.

Last night’s meltdown in the crypto markets will likely be studied as one of the most violent “wash-outs” in the history of digital assets. In the span of a few hours, tens of billions of dollars of leveraged positions were liquidated, prices plunged double-digits, and exchanges like Binance came under fire for system failures, frozen accounts, and broken stop orders.

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What began as an experiment among tech firms has evolved into a global trend. As tokenized financial products gain regulatory clarity and institutional custody matures, digital asset treasuries are emerging as a mainstream strategy for liquidity, diversification, and yield.

CV5 Capital provides a regulated Cayman umbrella (CV5 SPC) and a turnkey platform so managers can stand up an institution-grade private credit strategy in 3–4 weeks, with Tier-1 service providers and robust governance. The design priorities below directly address today’s allocator concerns:

Perpetual futures are reshaping crypto markets. Discover how hedge fund managers can use them for hedging, arbitrage, and alpha generation.

Bitcoin mining is shifting toward renewable energy. Discover how hedge funds and institutional investors can capture this growing opportunity.

Digital asset treasury companies are reshaping corporate finance with tokenized money markets, stablecoins, and on-chain liquidity solutions.

Institutional investors scrutinize hedge funds through operational due diligence. Here’s how CV5 Capital helps managers pass allocator reviews.

Should crypto fund managers trade across multiple exchanges or consolidate through a prime broker? CV5 Capital explains the pros, cons, and best practices.

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CV5 Capital offers a turnkey platform to launch Cayman digital asset hedge funds in 3–4 weeks with tier-1 service providers and tokenized options.

Launching a hedge fund or digital asset fund is a milestone for any investment manager. But many managers quickly discover that the traditional stand-alone fund model is both costly and time-consuming. Legal bills mount, regulatory filings drag on, and valuable time is lost before capital can be deployed.

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