Goldman Sachs is taking a different route into digital-asset markets.
The bank’s roughly $100 billion FTIXX Treasury fund will become available through Lynq, a settlement network used by institutional digital-asset firms. Unlike BlackRock’s BUIDL or Franklin Templeton’s blockchain-based Benji funds, Goldman is not creating a tokenized version of FTIXX. CoinDesk, Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto institutional infrastructure
Instead, Lynq becomes a distribution channel for the existing traditional fund.
Trades will be handled by SEC-registered broker-dealer tZERO Securities. Access is restricted to eligible U.S. clients that complete the required onboarding.
Lynq serves firms including B2C2, Wintermute, Galaxy, FalconX, Crypto.com and Fireblocks. The addition gives those institutional participants a place to move idle cash between trades while continuing to earn Treasury yield. CoinDesk
The structure is notable precisely because the fund itself remains conventional.
Rather than moving the asset onto a blockchain, Goldman and Lynq are bringing an established Wall Street instrument into a workflow built around digital-asset firms.
TOKEN RECON ASSESSMENT
Institutional convergence does not require every traditional asset to become a token.
Goldman’s approach tests a different model: leave the $100 billion fund where it is and connect it to crypto-native settlement infrastructure.
If that model gains traction, tokenized funds and traditional funds may compete less on whether they exist onchain and more on whether they can move efficiently through the same institutional collateral and settlement systems.
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CoinDesk, Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto institutional plumbing
