Summary

Mubadala Capital has launched tokenized access to an evergreen private market strategy through UAE-based infrastructure provider KAIO, attracting about $75 million across Solana, Base and Sui from traditional and digital-asset investors. Coinbase will take an undisclosed position in the product and place the exposure on its balance sheet — acting as an investor rather than only a network or service provider. Access remains limited to qualified institutional and accredited investors.

The product is tied to the Mubadala Capital Alternative Solutions Fund, an evergreen strategy with exposure to private equity, direct investments and credit. KAIO handles the tokenized structure, investor access and onchain administration across the three networks. Mubadala Capital is the alternative asset management subsidiary of Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company, which manages, advises and administers more than $600 billion; its alternative investment operations report about $60 billion in AUM.

The launch follows an official partnership announced in December 2025 between Mubadala Capital and KAIO to explore regulated digital access to private market investments for eligible investors, retaining governance, regulatory controls and investment oversight. Coinbase's role goes beyond providing Base as a settlement network — its balance-sheet purchase gives it economic exposure to a sovereign-backed private markets product while it continues building services for onchain funds.

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Why It Matters

A sovereign-backed Abu Dhabi asset manager tokenizing a private-markets evergreen fund — with Coinbase taking it onto its corporate balance sheet — is one of the clearest signals yet that tokenized private markets are moving from infrastructure pilots to real institutional allocations. The multichain deployment (Solana, Base, Sui) also shows tokenization is no longer Ethereum-only, with Solana in particular building a roster of institutional fund launches during 2026.

The Coinbase balance-sheet position is the more novel signal: it extends Coinbase's onchain-funds strategy from providing custody/network infrastructure to taking direct economic exposure to a sovereign-backed private-markets product. For the broader RWA/tokenization thesis, the deal demonstrates that regulated, qualified-investor-only tokenized structures can attract meaningful capital ($75M) from both traditional and digital-asset investors while preserving private-asset lockups and transfer rules — a template that other sovereign and large asset managers are likely to watch closely.

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