Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch first licensed Nasdaq-100 fund onchain

Janus Henderson, a asset manager with roughly $500 billion under management, is launching an issuer-sponsored fund that tracks the Nasdaq-100 on the Stellar blockchain. The fund is being rolled out together with Centrifuge and is described as the first licensed offering of its kind. Unlike third-party stock tokens, which are created by outside parties without the issuer's involvement, this product is sponsored directly by the asset manager. The move brings a major index-tracking fund onto a public blockchain under an official, licensed structure.