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title: "Ecosystem Asset Fund"
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author: "Hydrate"
createdAt: "2026-07-17T22:28:45.383Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-18T23:06:52.465Z"
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# Ecosystem Asset Fund

<Infobox>
| Operator | [Radix Foundation](/ecosystem/radix-foundation) |
| Type | Treasury market-support program |
| Launched | December 2024 |
| Budget | $25,000 per month |
| Allocation | 70% top-20 ecosystem index · 30% random top-50 token |
| Holding period | At least 6 months |
| Transparency | Public wallet with monthly activity reports |
| Status | Paused May 2025 (ran ~6 months, Dec 2024–May 2025) |
</Infobox>

## Introduction

The **Ecosystem Asset Fund** was a treasury program run by the [Radix Foundation](/ecosystem/radix-foundation) that spent **$25,000 per month** buying and holding native tokens issued by projects in the [Radix ecosystem](/ecosystem). It was [announced in late 2024](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/radix-foundation-ecosystem-asset-fund), with the first allocation made in December 2024, and ran for about six months before being paused in May 2025. The Foundation described the fund as a way to “boost visibility, deepen liquidity, and convey confidence to builders, community members, and the wider industry in the assets in the Radix ecosystem.”

## Structure and Allocation

Each month’s $25,000 was split between two buckets, [per the Foundation’s announcement](https://x.com/radixdlt/status/1863960484363599953):

- **70%** was directed to a weighted index of the **top 20 ecosystem tokens** by market capitalisation, excluding wrapped assets, [XRD](/contents/tech/core-protocols/xrd-token), and the Cassie token.
- **30%** was directed to a single **randomly chosen top-50 ecosystem token**.
Tokens acquired by the fund were [held for a minimum of six months](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/radix-foundation-ecosystem-asset-fund), which the Foundation framed as a commitment to stability rather than short-term trading.

## Transparency and Randomisation

All purchases were made from a **public wallet**, allowing the community to independently verify every transaction, and the Foundation committed to publishing [monthly activity reports](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/radix-foundation-ecosystem-asset-fund). Both the token selection and the purchase date each month were **randomised and front-run resistant**, so that market participants could not anticipate and trade ahead of the fund’s buys.

## Relationship to the Ecosystem (Grants) Fund

The Ecosystem Asset Fund was distinct from the larger **250 million XRD Radix Ecosystem Fund**, the Foundation’s [grants programme for funding ecosystem development](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/ecosystem-fund-update-new-directions-for-growth-and-support). Whereas the grants fund funded teams to build, the Asset Fund bought the resulting tokens on the open market. The two ran in parallel as separate initiatives while the Asset Fund was active.

## Wind-down

The fund ran for about six months. Its [public wallet](https://dashboard.radixdlt.com/account/account_rdx1297vs7up584rkwensy0jwzxq6g0xua67ca9trxdyr45cjnmzdak5x3) records monthly purchases from December 2024 through the start of May 2025, after which none were made — only unsolicited airdrops have reached the wallet since, and the accumulated tokens remain held rather than sold.

The program was [paused after the early-May 2025 purchase](https://t.me/radix_dlt/899351). A Radix Foundation representative (Adam, *@Adam_XRD*) explained that, following community feedback that the initiative was “a good idea but not being that beneficial overall”, it was paused after running for six months. No formal announcement was made at the time, and the program has not resumed. The wind-down came as the [Radix Foundation](/ecosystem/radix-foundation) moved toward handing its operations and treasury to a community-led DAO.

## Reception and Risks

The fund’s methodology bought whichever tokens ranked highest by market capitalisation, which included speculative memecoins. This drew commentary that public money could end up exposed to projects that were later abandoned. The fund’s own holdings illustrated the risk: between December 2024 and May 2025 it made repeated purchases of [**DELAY**](/ecosystem/delay), a memecoin, accumulating roughly 12.5 million tokens for about 143,000 XRD, all of which remained in the fund’s [wallet on-chain](https://dashboard.radixdlt.com/account/account_rdx1297vs7up584rkwensy0jwzxq6g0xua67ca9trxdyr45cjnmzdak5x3), unsold. DELAY’s market ranking subsequently fell, and in April 2026 the project’s social channels were deleted and its founder became inactive — developments that community members characterised as a rug pull. The episode illustrated the abandonment risk inherent in allocating to high-volatility memecoins by market capitalisation alone.

## External Links

- [Radix Foundation Ecosystem Asset Fund — The Radix Blog](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/radix-foundation-ecosystem-asset-fund)
- [Radix announcement on X](https://x.com/radixdlt/status/1863960484363599953)
- [Ecosystem Fund Update: New Directions for Growth and Support](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/ecosystem-fund-update-new-directions-for-growth-and-support)