Compass Financial Technologies and Venionaire Capital AG announce Europe’s first onchain Index, powered by Reserve
Vienna, November 5th 2025 – Venionaire Capital AG, an Austrian investment firm, together with Swiss index provider, Compass Financial Technologies, today announce the launch of the Venionaire Layer-1 Select Index (VLONE) on November 11th, a European-developed Decentralized Token Folio (DTF) that brings institutional governance and benchmark-grade quality to the blockchain. Powered by Reserve, a platform for decentralized token folios, originally backed by investors, Peter Thiel and Sam Altman, VLONE makes digital asset indexing transparent, automated, and globally accessible to crypto investors.
The VLONE DTF is a fully rule-based, onchain portfolio of leading Layer-1 blockchains that operates without traditional financial infrastructure or securitization. The DTF replicates the Venionaire Layer-1 Select Index (VLONE) – developed by Venionaire Capital and administered by Compass Financial Technologies (France) – directly on the blockchain.
Compass Financial Technologies (France) acts as a BMR-regulated index administrator and data provider under the European Benchmark Regulation (BMR), while Venionaire Capital’s Web3 research team designed the methodology and serves as the index promoter.
“An index strictly follows its rulebook – it doesn’t react to emotions or short-term market trends. It’s a benchmark that very few active fund managers manage to outperform,” said Berthold Baurek-Karlic, CEO of Venionaire Capital AG. “With the Venionaire Layer-1 DTF, Reserve brings many of the principles of established, exchange-traded index funds to the blockchain – without intermediaries, bureaucracy, or market barriers. We’re delighted to see this innovative development come to life.”
Edouard Mouton, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Compass said: „We are very proud to partner with Venionaire and Reserve to bring this innovative product to market. At Compass, we have spent the past seven years helping investors bridge the gap between traditional finance and the crypto industry. This launch marks another important milestone for the investment community, providing a new and efficient way to gain exposure to digital assets.“
The VLONE DTF gives investors access to a rule-based portfolio of leading Layer-1 protocols such as Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Near protocol – the technological backbone of the Web3 ecosystem. Portfolio weights are adjusted automatically and cost-efficiently onchain, according to a clearly defined methodology.
“Europe has trusted, well-governed financial frameworks,” said Thomas Mattimore, CEO of ABC Labs and core contributor to Reserve. “By bringing that same spirit of transparency and regulatory rigor onchain, the VLONE DTF demonstrates how decentralized finance can align with Europe’s institutional standards while remaining globally accessible. It’s a major step toward integrating the best of EU financial governance with open, decentralized infrastructure.”
The Reserve Index Protocol manages custody of the backing assets and ensures that the precise composition of the index is closely followed. While investments, rebalancing, and performance tracking are executed onchain via smart contracts, the DTF and its governance aim to mirror the index as accurately as possible, similar to how ETFs track traditional indexes, recognizing that some deviation, or “tracking error,” is natural in both structures.
In line with the Venionaire Layer-1 Select (VLONE) benchmark index, the DTF portfolio is rebalanced monthly. The index methodology combines qualitative and quantitative assessments based on objective criteria, including:
- Number of listings and liquidity
- Trading volume and market capitalization
- Onchain activity and governance quality
- Protocol evaluation via the Venionaire Quality Assessment Framework
Weights are determined by liquidity, market capitalization, price development, and sector-specific quality metrics. A maximum allocation of 15% per asset ensures broad diversification.
“With the DTF, Reserve builds a bridge between top-tier institutional research and decentralized infrastructure,” added Baurek-Karlic. “It’s an important step toward transparent, rule-based index strategies – something that has long been standard in traditional capital markets, but still rare in crypto.”
The VLONE DTF can be minted directly through Reserve’s website, using popular wallets such as MetaMask, WalletConnect, Coinbase Wallet, Bitget Wallet, Binance Wallet, Rabby Wallet, Ledger, or Rainbow. Investors retain full self-custody of their DTF tokens at all times.
About Venionaire Capital
Venionaire Capital AG, headquartered in Vienna, is an investment firm specializing in venture capital, private equity, and digital assets. With a global network of over 250 associate partners, Venionaire supports founders, investors, and corporations in developing, financing, and executing innovative growth strategies.
The company’s guiding principle, “Entrepreneurial Partners,” stands for partnership-driven entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable value creation.
About Compass Financial Technologies
Compass Financial Technologies SA, based in Lausanne, Paris and New York, is a leading provider of index development, calculation, and administration services.
As a BMR-regulated index administrator, Compass Financial Technologies (France)ensures the highest standards of transparency, methodology, and governance.
About Reserve
Reserve is a free, permissionless platform to create, own, and govern DTFs (Decentralized Token Folios), index products and asset-backed currencies launched on its protocols. Reserve’s mission is to create a more accessible financial system through decentralized index technology, allowing anyone to build and manage token baskets that work like traditional ETFs but with the benefits of blockchain.
Media Contact Venionaire Capital AG:
Venionaire Capital AG
Julia Gülden-Zeisberger
E-Mail: julia@venionaire.com
Tel.: +43 664 438 70 70
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YIELD Public Relations
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Senior Consultant
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Tel.: +43 676 327 91 29
