Australian Pension Fund Weighs Crypto Access Amid Market Volatility

[Oshosondy]

Australian industry superannuation fund Hostplus is exploring whether to open a path into Bitcoin and other digital assets for its members, according to a Bloomberg report.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/australian-pension-fund-mulls-offering-crypto-in-rare-move

Hostplus CIO Sam Sicilia says the retirement fund is eyeing a potential launch as early as next financial year.
The fund is looking beyond Bitcoin at a wider range of digital assets, including tokenized exposure to areas like music rights.
It comes as AMP Super, the first Australian fund to back crypto, exited most of its Bitcoin futures position ahead of this year's market decline.

But definitely bitcoin will be what most people will for first after.

This is what I like about the news, that it pave way to more adoption if this begin in Australia:
“As soon as one super fund breaks ranks on crypto assets, I’d say there's a high probability the rest follow,” Jason Titman, CEO of Australian crypto exchange Swyftx, told Decrypt. “Around a quarter of Australians want their super funds to offer digital assets, and that number is likely to increase when the market is regulated.”

https://decrypt.co/362149/australian-pension-fund-weighs-crypto-market-volatility

Bitcoin and crypto are still in their early stage, more adoptions are coming.

[hugeblack]

The fund is looking beyond Bitcoin at a wider range of digital assets, including tokenized exposure to areas like music rights.
It comes as AMP Super, the first Australian fund to back crypto, exited most of its Bitcoin futures position ahead of this year's market decline.

Personally, I'm not optimistic when I hear about music rights being traded via digital tokens. It means either they're not serious about investing in Bitcoin and are only investing a small percentage, or it's a short-term idea, not something to be taken lightly like investing 5% as a reserve and not selling for years. Such ideas often fail.

[SilverCryptoBullet]

Personally, I'm not optimistic when I hear about music rights being traded via digital tokens. It means either they're not serious about investing in Bitcoin and are only investing a small percentage, or it's a short-term idea, not something to be taken lightly like investing 5% as a reserve and not selling for years. Such ideas often fail.

This MUSICOIN was dead too but it is PoW, not token.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/musicoin/

Developers are very flexible with their "initiatives" and "developments" to meet the needs in community but their projects can start with a lot of promising things and end with massive disappointments, painful experience with a lot of money lost by people who trust such altcoin white papers and creative ideas to bring music rights for example to cryptocurrency industry and tokenization.

[hugeblack]

Personally, I'm not optimistic when I hear about music rights being traded via digital tokens. It means either they're not serious about investing in Bitcoin and are only investing a small percentage, or it's a short-term idea, not something to be taken lightly like investing 5% as a reserve and not selling for years. Such ideas often fail.

This MUSICOIN was dead too but it is PoW, not token.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/musicoin/

I don't think any investment fund would seriously consider investing in PoW like Musicoin. I think they're talking about asset tokenization and other NFT-related things. both are bad investments.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Personally, I'm not optimistic when I hear about music rights being traded via digital tokens. It means either they're not serious about investing in Bitcoin and are only investing a small percentage, or it's a short-term idea, not something to be taken lightly like investing 5% as a reserve and not selling for years. Such ideas often fail.

Yep i'm thinking the same, most recent attempt of people tried to tokenize IP was through Story protocol with big funding and even getting as far as cooperating with some universities in the US, few months later it flopped hard.
Hoping if they want to tap into crypto access, they better be investing in bitcoin instead and not wasting time with all those shitcoins, digital music right, or whatever it is until there is battle tested product that actually be getting adoption.

[BitGoba]

Bitcoin and crypto are still in their early stage, more adoptions are coming.

Crypto is mostly a scam. Scammers use crypto, create their own worthless tokens to get rich, and dump them on people, because most people don’t have the technical and  economic knowledge to understand Bitcoin. People are often naive and driven by greed, which makes them easy targets for scammers crypto founders.

People still need time to learn about and understand Bitcoin. To truly understand it, you have to go down the rabbit hole of money itself ,explore what money really is, how it evolved over time, how banks were created, how fiat currencies came into existence, what fiat actually is, how it works, what inflation is, and how fiat quietly erodes your purchasing power.Only when you go deep into that rabbit hole do you start to really understand Bitcoin. At that point, you also begin to understand gold, and it becomes clear why it’s not “crypto” in general but Bitcoin specifically. And why, over time, the numbers areto keep going up.