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Why Ketju rejected Blockchain Capital (BCAP)

Memo v1Published by Ketju Research

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The memo

REJECTED. BCAP is a tokenized, indirect fractional non-voting economic interest in Blockchain Capital III Digital Liquid Venture Fund, LP, an illiquid venture-capital fund, sold under Regulation D to a maximum of 99 US accredited investors (Investment Company Act Section 3(c)(1)) plus Regulation S offshore investors. There is no investor-initiated redemption right: the issuer may redeem tokens only at its own option, no earlier than the ten-year anniversary of the 2017 issuance — 2027 at the earliest — and secondary transfer is restricted to selling an entire position to a single buyer, enforced by Securitize's whitelist-only DS Protocol. DefiLlama's roughly $959M TVL figure is not locked, tradeable value; it is outstanding token supply times an oracle-fed NAV price that jumped from roughly $22-28 to roughly $106 per token in about three weeks in April-May 2026, with token supply essentially flat — a move far outside this fund's own single-digit-to-10% quarterly NAV history, most plausibly explained by a mark-to-market of the fund's stake in Securitize itself following Securitize's SPAC listing (down roughly 40% within a week of trading). None of this is suitable for an RIA's liquid crypto sleeve.

What would reopen the file

  • An investor-initiated redemption right exists, not solely an issuer option starting in 2027
  • A confirmed, liquid, non-whole-position secondary market exists for retail-inaccessible accredited holders
  • The April-May 2026 4x NAV repricing is independently explained and confirmed from a primary TokenHub report
  • Fund concentration in any single underlying position, including Securitize itself, is disclosed and bounded

Facts on file

Verdict
Rejected
Exposure
other
Chains examined
ZKsync Era
Instruments
BCAP
Memo version
v1
Reviewed
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