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Inside Arc Core: How We Chose Two Asset Classes

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Omar Siddiqui

The answer we landed on was tokenized equities and curated crypto — not because that's the trendy combination, but because those two asset classes tend to respond to different pressures at different times. Regulated equities move on earnings, macro policy, and institutional sentiment. Crypto moves on network adoption, liquidity cycles, and a different set of participants entirely. They're not uncorrelated in every environment — nothing is — but they're correlated enough of the time by different enough mechanisms that a basket holding both isn't making one bet twice dressed up as two.

Think of it like two animals walking the same ramp, side by side, temperamentally nothing alike — one built for open ground and speed, the other for stripes and stubbornness — proceeding calmly together because neither needs the other to behave identically. That's the actual logic behind pairing equities with crypto in one basket. We're not asking both asset classes to succeed for the same reasons at the same time. We're asking them to not both fail for the same reason at the same time, which is a much more achievable, and much more honest, standard to build toward.

When one side underperforms — say, equities have a flat quarter — the basket doesn't panic-rebalance or chase the other side's momentum. The rules-based rebalancing simply restores target weight on a fixed schedule, buying more of whichever side has drifted below target. No discretionary call, no market-timing guess dressed up as strategy. The mechanism is boring on purpose. Boring is what you want from the part of your portfolio that's supposed to weather a bad quarter, not the part that's trying to catch a trend.

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A transparent, halal-compliant investing app powered by real economic activity.

© 2026 Arc • All rights reserved

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Arc is a financial technology platform, not a bank or licensed investment adviser. Products offered through Arc are not bank deposits and are not insured by any government deposit protection scheme. All yield figures represent potential returns based on historical performance and current market conditions, actual returns will vary and are not guaranteed. Investing through Arc involves risk, including the possible loss of some or all of your invested capital. Nothing on this platform constitutes investment advice. You should consider whether any Arc product is appropriate for your circumstances before investing. Sharia compliance certification applies to product structure only and does not constitute a guarantee of financial performance.

A transparent, halal-compliant investing app powered by real economic activity.

© 2026 Arc • All rights reserved

Created by

Arc is a financial technology platform, not a bank or licensed investment adviser. Products offered through Arc are not bank deposits and are not insured by any government deposit protection scheme. All yield figures represent potential returns based on historical performance and current market conditions, actual returns will vary and are not guaranteed. Investing through Arc involves risk, including the possible loss of some or all of your invested capital. Nothing on this platform constitutes investment advice. You should consider whether any Arc product is appropriate for your circumstances before investing. Sharia compliance certification applies to product structure only and does not constitute a guarantee of financial performance.

A transparent, halal-compliant investing app powered by real economic activity.

© 2026 Arc • All rights reserved

Created by

Arc is a financial technology platform, not a bank or licensed investment adviser. Products offered through Arc are not bank deposits and are not insured by any government deposit protection scheme. All yield figures represent potential returns based on historical performance and current market conditions, actual returns will vary and are not guaranteed. Investing through Arc involves risk, including the possible loss of some or all of your invested capital. Nothing on this platform constitutes investment advice. You should consider whether any Arc product is appropriate for your circumstances before investing. Sharia compliance certification applies to product structure only and does not constitute a guarantee of financial performance.

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