Janus Henderson Brings First Natively Issued On-Chain Nasdaq-100 Fund to Stellar

CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie and 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder sit down with Patrik Bjorklund, Innovation Strategist of Janus Henderson, at Stellar's Meridian conference. Bjorklund details what he calls the first natively blockchain-issued Nasdaq-100 fund, with USDC subscription and redemption, built with Nasdaq and Centrifuge and launching with an exclusive period on Stellar. He frames the product as a step beyond on-chain treasury and yield use cases toward bringing trusted financial assets, following last year's S&P 500 token, and points to lower-cost exposure through tokens like SPXA for investors deterred by high minimums on the non-US fund. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Janus Henderson's Patrik Bjorklund at Meridian 00:19 Inside the On-Chain Nasdaq-100 Fund 00:51 Why Stellar, and Democratizing Assets 01:26 Who the Product Is For 02:42 New Customers or Existing Ones 03:18 On-Chain Benefits and the iPhone Moment 04:23 Buy-and-Hold vs Price Discovery 05:22 Looking Ahead at Meridian - #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoinDesk?sub_confirmation=1 CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypto asset and blockchain technology community. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coindesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDesk Newsletters: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters CoinDesk Podcast Network: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jyIhkvAQhed8AWDZiPpSP Public Keys: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqYzRV10nfKfoTpFXZhTE Markets Daily Crypto Roundup: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sDXM8BlxsUqzL2IqmLqwE The Policy Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Fh8ffulAWcCqMu0uVuwoj