First Digital Asset Fund Launched for Portugal GV

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The Octanova Horizon Fund is a first Portugal Golden Visa Fund to combine Fixed Income with exposure to Digital Assets in a regulated, safe, and flexible manner.  The Fund obtained CMVM approval on Dec 13, 2025, with target allocation is 65% Portuguese Fixed Income and 35% Digital Assets allowing a stable return to investors while benefitting from the upside on Digital Assets 

  • First Golden Visa Fund to combine Fixed Income with exposure to Digital Assets in a regulated, safe, and flexible manner.
  • Superior Risk Adjusted IRR: 15-20% projected
  • Open Ended Flexible, with monthly Subscriptions and Redemptions (fee applies before 5 years)
  • Excellent diversification – 65% of the fund is allocated to bonds across 16-20 PSI-20 names, with a maximum of 10% per issuer
  • Top Tier partners including large European Bank and large US Broker-Dealer
  • World class team with over 20 years of experience in Traditional and Digital Assets.

The Digital Assets are limited to BTC, ETH and SOL, the fund can invest via ETFs or directly into the Crypto Assets using Regulated Custodians. 

Why Digital Assets

  • Bitcoin Spot ETF(s) has over $100Bln AUM. Ethereum ETF launched, SOL ETF expected on H1 2025
  • The U.S. ETF market value is $7.2 trillion
  • The total value deposited in retirement accounts in the US amounts to $40 trillion
  • 1% Allocation of retirement accounts in US to crypto equals $400billion
  • Bitcoin market cap is $2.00 trillion, half of the total $3.60 trillion crypto universe 
  • Blackrock’s IBIT reached $10 billion in assets just 7 weeks after its launch on January 11th, 2024. In contrast, the SPY ETF, which tracks the S&P 500 index, took over 2 years.
  • President Donald Trump administrationis pro-crypto and nominate a pro- crypto SEC Director Paul Atkins and Crypto and AI Tzar David Sachs
  • In the USA both Senate and House are Republican and likely to pass Crypto regulations in the next 12mths increasing institutional adoption
  • MiCA came into force in Europe in December 2024 increasing Institutional participation 

Portugal GV

On October 1st, 2018, the Portuguese government approved a new regulatory decree allowing non-EU citizens to apply for the Golden visa through investment funds.

  • Residency in Portugal – Grants a 5-year residency permit to non-EU citizens who Invest € 500,000 through investment funds. The investment in the Fund gives investor and his family, including children and parents direct access to Portuguese Residency and a path to Citizenship in 5 years. Allowing for travelling in 26 Schengen Area countries.
  • Schengen Area – Valid for all Schengen countries and the applicant only needs to spend 7 days per year in Portugal to maintain the residency
  • PR Card – Able to apply for permanent residency after 5 years
  • Portuguese Nationality and Passport – The Portuguese passport is ranked as one of the world’s top passports, many times being ranked ahead of other nations passports such as the Canadian or Swiss passports

Octanova SCR Team has over 20 years of experience in Financial Markets including Digital Assets trading. This is the first Regulated Fund to offer Fixed Income with exposure to Digital Assets in Regulated, Safe, and Flexible manner 

Performance

Horizon fund performance

7 year performance of the Horizon fund

AllocationCompoundingQ4 2017Q4 2018Q4 2019Q4 2020Q4 2021Q4 2022Q4 2023Q4 2024
Bitcoin Price9,6543,9307,71019,37957,13917,10537,75195,183
Bitcoin35%69,8222,71,2184,61,5557,71,9381,22,1726,94,06611,25,611
EUR Corp Bond65%5.00%3,34,4252,69,5963,58,1045,10,5167,95,8386,13,2268,70,543
Gross Portf Value5,00,0004,04,2475,40,8148,19,66012,82,4549,18,00913,07,29219,96,154
Fix Infra Cost (Custody, Wallets)1,1501,1501,1501,1501,1501,1501,1501,150
Upfront Fee2.00%10,00000000
Mngmt Fee2.00%8,08510,81616,39325,64918,36026,14639,923
Net Portf Value before Perf Fee3,95,0125,28,8478,02,11612,55,6558,98,49912,79,99619,55,081
Hurdle Rate2.00%10,0008,08510,81616,39325,64918,36026,146
Portf Value used for Perf Fee5,00,0003,85,0125,20,7627,91,30012,39,2628,72,85012,61,63619,28,935
Perf Fee w/ HWM20.00%4,15254,10889,5924,4751,33,460
Total Fees10,0008,08514,96970,5011,15,24118,36030,6211,73,383
Net Portf Value4,90,0003,95,0125,24,6957,48,00911,66,0628,98,49912,75,52118,21,621
Investor Return p.a-21.00%32.83%42.56%55.89%-22.95%41.96%42.81%
An investor would have made 264% in total if it had invested in this strategy for the last Seven Years. On this exercise the Investment would have started in November 2017 and redeemed in November 2024. Bitcoin Data is directly from Bloomberg, we assumed Corporate Bonds returns 5% p.a.

Fund Summary

  • Fund Structure: OIA – Organismo de Investimento Alternativo
  • Fund Type: Open-End Fund Fund Category: Fixed Income and Digital Assets
  • Fund Size: € 100.000.000
  • Minimum Investor Commitment Amount: Category A: € 100.000
  • Monthly, early redemption fee before 5 years, Daily
  • Fully complies with the Portuguese Golden Visa eligibility
  • Liquid Fixed Income Portfolio that invests partially large cap Digital Assets, with strategies to minimize the downside. Diversification Target: 16-20 Fixed Income Issuers, 10% Max per issuer | 1- 3 Digital Assets
  • 65% Portuguese Fixed Income | 35% Digital Assets (ETH, SOL, BTC)
  • Category A: 2% p.a.
  • Management Fee: Category A: 2%
  • Performance Fee: Category A: 20% above Benchmark return
  • Subscription Fee: 0%, Setup Fee 2%

The Horizon fund is Regulated by CMVM, Audited by EY with legal accountability by the fund manager and controlled by the custodian bank. After the investment made, the investor become the owner of the participation units of the fund, which will be held in the investor’s bank account.

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