AI really is the focus of… basically everyone. But right now, it is hard to invest in the narrative, unless you have a broker to buy specific company shares or can buy specific, ringfenced ETFs in certain countries.

That may all change in the next month or two, with ABC Labs planning to launch a series of AI-themed equity DTFs (Decentralized Token Folios) this summer, built on tokenized US stocks and aimed at non-US, crypto investors who cannot access the same exposure through traditional brokerage channels.

The AI DTFs will focus on different segments (for example, DRAM, photonics, power), and ABC Labs may also offer a wider ‘AI infrastructure DTF’ which captures exposure across the full stack.

DTFs are like ETFs, but on-chain, and tradeable without barriers 24/7. With a range of tokenized AI stocks arriving in June, the first AI DTF is expected a few days after. Instead of buying individual tokenized stocks, buy the index and capture the segment of the industry you are most bullish on.

DTFs can be built and minted using the Reserve Protocol, at https://app.reserve.org.

On the AI front, Reserve cited Situational Awareness, a private, major AI thesis hedge fund, that has $13.6 billion in assets under management.

The recent launch of DRAM is also a recent example, which quickly became a $9 billion ETF.

With ETFs beginning to crop up around the AI industry, it is inevitable their on-chain equivalent - DTFs - will arrive.

But, as Reserve Protocol pointed out on Twitter, “$DRAM is a US-listed ETF, so you can only buy it in countries that are plugged into the US brokerage network. Fund access has progressed from private to public, but still leaves much of the world out.

“We can do better. By creating funds on-chain with tokenized US stocks that are backed 1:1 with underlying equities and accessible outside of the US, we can extend access to most of the globe. That’s what we’re cooking right now, alongside the leading tokenizer of US equities.

“Stay tuned for globally accessible AI supply chain funds in the coming weeks, freely accessible in about 145 countries to about 6 billion people.

“If you are in the trenches on this trade, you can guess which vertical we’ll lead with.”

Our guess on the vertical is photonics, but we will see. Whichever the vertical is, that is likely our first glimpse of the logo up above.

The tokenized US stocks used in the DTFs will be backed 1:1 with underlying equities and may be accessible in as many as 145 countries, with a population of six billion people.

Sources: Telegram, Reserve Forum, Twitter