Why Insurance Needs a Blockchain Revolution

For most of us, insurance is a necessary evil. The events which trigger insurance payouts are usually unpleasant and disruptive, but having insurance in place prevents them from being catastrophic. Having insurance is now seen as a necessary condition for doing business and a huge global insurance industry has evolved to cater to these needs. The next evolution in insurance may very well be the adoption of blockchain technology.

November 18, 2020

Jerald David

Revolutionizing the Digital Assets Ecosystem: How Arca Pioneered the Use of U.S. Treasuries for ArCoin

The selection of US Treasuries as the underlying asset of the first Blockchain Traded Fund incredibly deliberate. Arca first began thinking about creating the Arca US Treasury Fund and it’s digital security, ArCoin, back in 2018 and set out to accomplish three important goals.

October 22, 2020

Overview of the ArCoin Purchasing Process

Arca Labs strives to provide the highest customer success for investors purchasing, transferring, and storing their ArCoin. Below you will find resources to guide you through purchasing ArCoin using the ArCoin Portal. Before obtaining ArCoin, investors should read the ArCoin FAQs to better understand the processes and requirements associated with holding ArCoin.

October 1, 2020

Sumana Maitra

From ETFs to BTFs

For years, participants in the digital assets industry have discussed how to bring institutional money into this ecosystem. While this mission was not always the highest priority for the first-movers in crypto, increased institutional adoption has made the industry focus on meeting their requirements. The reasoning behind this shift is obvious - that’s where the money is. Institutional investors own roughly 80% of the equity market, meaning they can bring trillions of dollars of capital into this ecosystem.

September 24, 2020

Blair Bingham

Introducing ArCoin Keepers: A MCD Liquidity Enhancement

In my last blog post I discussed ArCoin’s use case as a bridge between real world financial assets and DAI, Maker’s decentralized stablecoin. As a recap, ArCoin is a digital share of the Arca U.S Treasury Fund issued through the blockchain. Although it served as a provoking theoretical piece, it is time to further discuss ArCoin’s implementation plan to fit into Maker’s Collateralized Debt Positions (CDP).

September 17, 2020

Blair Bingham

The Melding of CeFi and DeFi: ArCoin’s Path to Becoming MKR Collateral

I’m always astounded by the myriad of use cases our team envisions for ArCoin, Arca’s digital security backed by a portfolio of short-duration U.S. Treasuries. It seems even more incredible when our team takes an idea and begins to create new use cases for ArCoin that have the potential to reframe and strengthen the digital asset ecosystem.

July 6, 2020

Jerald David

The Journey to Launching the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund and ArCoin

Today may be a day that changes financial services forever. Arca team members have been lucky enough to launch two regulated futures exchanges, many derivatives contracts and an ETF company, just to name a few. While each of these initiatives forever impacted the landscape of finance, our current launch of the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund (“Fund”) and ArCoin may be more transformative.

An investor should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund before investing.
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This and other information is available in the Fund’s prospectus, which should be reviewed carefully prior to investing. To obtain a prospectus, please call 1-800-445-3148.
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The Funds Annual Operating Expense Ratio, as reflected in the current prospectus is 3.22%, however Management has agreed to an expense cap of .75% through an expense limitation agreement for the first year after effectiveness of the Fund's registration statement. For more details relating to the fund’s expenses, please review the prospectus.
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No assurance can be given that the Fund will achieve its investment objective, and investment results may vary substantially over time and from period to period.
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An investment in the Fund involves risk including loss of principal. An investment in the Fund is suitable only for investors who can bear the risks associated with limited liquidity in the shares and the uncertainty of emerging technologies, and should be viewed as a long-term investment.

Other risks specifically associated with the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund are detailed in the prospectus and include no history of operations risk, conflict of interest risk, interval fund risk, no minimum amount of proceeds risk, fund closure risk, liquidity risk, tax related risks, credit and non-payment risk, interest rate risk, portfolio management risk, market risk, call risk, valuation risk and issuer risk.

The Arca U.S. Treasury Fund will be one of the first registered funds to offer digital securities and there are additional risks associated with this feature of the fund, including regulatory risk, liquidity risk, emerging technology risk, operational and technology risk, and risks specifically associated with the Ethererum blockchain. There is the risk that management may be unable to successfully use blockchain technology to validate ownership and transfer Arcoins.

For details regarding all of the risks described above, please review the prospectus.

Arca Capital Management, LLC “Arca” serves as adviser to the Arca US Treasury Fund, distributed by Ceros Financial Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC “Ceros”. Arca and Ceros are not affiliated.

Thought Leadership | 2020