Predicted to enable hormone activity. Involved in several processes, including regulation of lipid metabolic process; regulation of lipoprotein metabolic process; and triglyceride homeostasis. Acts upstream of or within cell maturation and fat cell differentiation. Predicted to be active in extracellular region. Orthologous to human ANGPTL8 (angiopoietin like 8). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]