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As many institutional investors and globalbanks search for regulated crypto assets to investin,Arcoincreated byArcaLabs seemsto solve suchneeds.

TheArCoinisbuilton theEthereumblockchainand represents stakes inArcas U.S. Treasury Fund, which is regulated by the American Securities and Exchange Commission. Also, it ismade up of 80% U.S. Treasury securities.

TheArcasU.S. Treasury Fund can be traced through a customizedplatform, which enables peer-to-peer transactions. However, for the time being,ArCoinis unavailable on any major securities exchanges.

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In a prospectus filed with the SEC in April 2019 for the then-developingArCoin,Arcaexplained that:

In the future,ArcaUST Coins may betradeableon a public decentralized or centralized electronic exchange platform that is registered with the SEC as an alternative trading system (ATS), although there is no guarantee any such systems or platforms will be available.

Quick fact;The Funds shares (ArCoins or shares) can be transferred in peer-to-peer transactions onEthereum, an open, public, distributed ledger that is secured using cryptography (referred to as a blockchain).

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Ethereum records transactions between two parties in a verifiable and permanent way referred to as immutability.

There are no share certificates, and because the shares can be transferred in peer-to-peer transactions using Ethereumstechnology, the shares are characterized herein as digital securities. For more information, including the costs and risks of effecting transactions onEthereum, see Peer-to-Peer Transactions, About the Digital Securities and Risks of Digital Securities.

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Inaddition, JeraldDavid, president ofArcaCapital Management, which overseesArcaLabs, explained to Cointelegraphof theirintentions inusing Treasury-based assets:

We wanted to create an instrument that invests in traditionally lower-volatility assets and the U.S. Treasurys were an ideal choice from that perspective.

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