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On Receipt: Bringing the Ease of Blockchain to Tokenized Fund Investing

October 23, 2025

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Maredith Hannon

Maredith Hannon

Director of Business Development, Digital Assets

On Receipt: Bringing the Ease of Blockchain to Tokenized Fund Investing

As digital finance evolves, the best experiences are those that feel native to the blockchain—seamless, transparent, and integrated.At WisdomTree, we’re making tokenized fund investing as simple as sending a stablecoin. With our latest enhancement, “On Receipt,” onboarded investors can now initiate purchases and redemptions directly from their wallets—combining the efficiency of blockchain with the structure and compliance of regulated fund infrastructure.

Why It Matters
Even as tokenized funds have gained traction, the process of purchasing or redeeming shares has largely remained offchain—requiring investors to use portals, APIs, or manual systems to initiate activity.

“On Receipt” changes that dynamic by allowing investors to trigger their fund activity directly from the blockchain. After setting up standing instructions in WisdomTree Connect, investors can send stablecoins or fund tokens from their whitelisted wallets to a designated WisdomTree address. That onchain transfer automatically triggers the creation of an order within WisdomTree Connect—where it is processed through our existing, regulated systems.

For investors, this means:

  • A more blockchain-native experience – interact with tokenized funds as you would with any digital asset, directly from your wallet.
  • Real-time recognition– onchain transfers are automatically detected and acted upon.
  • Simplified integrations – particularly valuable for institutions and developers building onchain treasury or investment workflows.

For future users, “On Receipt” creates the foundation for programmable fund interactions—where onchain events, smart contracts, or treasury automations can trigger compliant offchain activity in near real time.

How It Works

  1. Set Up Once in WisdomTree Connect
    Onboarded Investors establish standing order instructions and link their KYC’d wallet to their account. This ensures compliance and enables automatic recognition of blockchain activity.
  2. Send and Trigger Onchain
    Each WisdomTree tokenized fund (we currently offer 14) has a unique deposit address. Sending stablecoins to that address triggers a purchase order, while sending fund tokens triggers a redemption order—initiating the corresponding action in WisdomTree Connect.
  3. Automated Order Creation
    WisdomTree continuously monitors blockchain events. When a transfer occurs from a verified wallet, our system detects the event and automatically creates the corresponding order in our order management infrastructure, ensuring the same level of oversight, compliance, and execution as before.
  4. Frictionless, Blockchain-Aware Execution
    Because wallets are whitelisted and connected to investor profiles, there’s no need for intermediaries or payment processors to confirm ownership. The blockchain acts as a trusted signal—streamlining how activity flows into our systems while maintaining T+0 processing capability.

Building Toward a Blockchain-Native Future
With “On Receipt,” WisdomTree is deepening the connection between blockchain technology and traditional fund infrastructure—without compromising regulatory integrity.

By allowing onchain transfers to directly trigger compliant offchain fund activity, we’re bridging tradfi and defi: the efficiency and transparency of blockchain with the oversight and structure of regulated finance.

This is how we move closer to a future where regulated assets operate natively on blockchain infrastructure—seamless, programmable, and built for the next generation of investors.

About the contributor

Maredith Hannon

Maredith Hannon

Director of Business Development, Digital Assets

Maredith Hannon joined WisdomTree in May 2022 as Director of Business Development for Digital Assets. In this role, she is responsible for leading business development and partnerships for WisdomTree’s digital assets division, including WisdomTree Prime.

Prior to joining WisdomTree, Maredith was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, Head of Business Development and Strategy for the Outsourced Chief Investment Office (OCIO). In this role, she was responsible for sales and operations across business development, marketing, strategic initiatives, and business management. OCIO’s client base included institutional clients, including family offices, ultra-high net worth clients, defined contribution and defined benefit plans, nonprofits, and corporations, both domestic and international. Maredith began her career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where she worked across product, sales, and strategy roles before becoming Director, Head of Sales Performance and Strategy for their Workplace Financial Solutions business, which focused on delivering wealth management solutions to institutional clients and their employees.

Maredith graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University.

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