Financial asset management company Fidelity International announced today, May 13, 2026, the launch of its first native tokenized fund, the Fidelity USD Digital Liquidity Fund (FILQ).
Financial products are Developed on the Ethereum network and uses the infrastructure of the Chainlink oracle network and the Sygnum tokenization platform.
As you can see on Signum’s website, here’s the background: Rated Aaa-MF by Moody’sdemonstrating the high credit safety of the underlying assets, which primarily consist of regulated government securities and asset-backed commercial paper.
FILQ’s core technology integration is We use Net Asset Value (NAV) data provided by Chainlink. For traditional investment funds, NAV is typically calculated and distributed outside bank business hours. In this model, information is transparently reported on-chain and daily evaluations are accessible to participants in the digital ecosystem.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov said today that the availability of NAV data is an essential technical requirement for the existence of tokenized funds.
Additionally, this phenomenon of Chainlink being integrated into traditional financial systems has similarities to the early growth of decentralized finance (DeFi), according to Nazarov.
We saw this pattern in Chainlink’s early DeFi. You can’t build a secure protocol without relying on a high-quality decentralized oracle network. I feel that the trend of tokenized funds, which are part of Real World Assets (RWA), is in a similar situation.
Sergei Nazarov, Chainlink Co-Founder
FILQ presents two asset classes For investors:
- 1. Accumulation Token: The income generated by the underlying asset is reinvested, increasing the NAV value of the token.
- 2. Distribution token: maintains a constant par value of $1 and distributes income monthly in the form of dividends.
Although this fund operates based on Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard, Use allowed models. This means that only wallets that have been verified through KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) processes can trade tokens. Initial access is limited to institutional investors and the minimum entry amount is set at $100,000.
Unlike traditional stablecoins, which do not accrue direct interest and function primarily as payment instruments or reserves, FILQ functions as a money market fund (money market funds) that We strive to maintain liquidity available 24 hours a day with near-instantaneous settlements.
Chainlink’s expansion among corporate “giants” and traditional financial players has created some optimism about the price of its native cryptocurrency LINK. For example, as reported by CriptoNoticias, financial analyst Ted Stamas expects LINK to outperform the S&P 500 index over the next four years.
