On Aug. 25, Bitwise, a major asset manager, announced that it would soon launch a trio of automated token portfolios (ATPs), which would be built using tokenized U.S. stocks issued by Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN). An ATP is a professionally picked basket of stocks that you hold in a crypto wallet, with each company’s shares represented as crypto tokens. The point of holding those assets as crypto tokens is that you can put their value to work in various crypto applications, unlike if you were to hold the stocks directly.
So is this new piece of financial tech going to become the future of crypto investing?
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ATPs are a lot like ETFs
As you probably know, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a vehicle that pools investors’ capital and issues shares. The asset issuer owns the underlying stocks that back the ETF, and investors own a claim on the pool of assets.
An automated token portfolio is an inversion of that dynamic that produces similar results. Bitwise selects the portfolio’s holdings and its target weights, just as it would with an ETF, but investors keep direct control over the tokens in a crypto wallet. Glider, a business that’s partnered with Bitwise and Coinbase, performs automated rebalancing of the funds in the wallet on a daily basis to match the target weights.
Bitwise named its flagship ATP Mag7X, and it holds eight stocks at an equal weight — the Magnificent Seven stocks, plus Space Exploration Technologies. As of August 2026, it charges a 0.15% access fee for the model, which excludes trading costs and Glider’s platform fees. That fee is comparable to what investors would pay on an index ETF, so it’s not very expensive at all.
Because you hold the tokens directly, they can be used as collateral for decentralized finance (DeFi) apps, or for lending, borrowing, or trading with leverage. That flexibility of the capital is the main point of the ATPs. For crypto-native assets, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, the flexibility is already there, so Bitwise has less reason to wrap them in an ATP, though it’s plausible that it’ll eventually do so anyway.
The other reason to use ATPs is that for investors who have a lot of capital tied up in crypto (and in active use), but not much capital in the traditional financial system, ATPs provide a path to get exposure to the businesses that mostly live in the traditional system. For those users, the ATPs are a friction-reducing workaround to needing to set up a separate brokerage account and transfer their funds, potentially across international borders.
