Equipment finance platform Trad.Fi to bring $650M in private credit onchain

Written by Zoltan Vardaistaff writerReviewed by Yohan Yunstaff writerWritten by Zoltan Vardaistaff writerReviewed by Yohan Yunstaff writerEquipment finance platform Trad.Fi to bring $650M in private credit onchainLatest NewsPublishedJun 10, 2026Trad.Fi plans to bring up to $650 million in equipment-finance credit onchain, targeting a trillion-dollar US market still dominated by paperwork.US-based equipment finance platform Trad.Fi announced plans to bring up to $650 million in private credit onchain over the next 48 months. The initiative targets one of the largest and least digitized credit markets in the US, the trillion-dollar industry funding manufacturing equipment, industrial systems and residential solar installations, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.Trad.Fi said the $650 million is not deployed capital but a credit pipeline that will be minted onchain, backed by committed senior credit facilities and signed Letters of Intent from anchor borrowers. The company said it currently has about $85 million in signed term sheets and about $40 million expected to close imminently.The initiative seeks to address the financing chokepoint in the manufacturing industry by reducing digital credit approval to a single business day, compared with weeks or months of approval time for traditional lines of credit.Related: JPMorgan, Citi-backed Clearing House plans tokenized deposit network in 2027: WSJUS equipment financing is a fast-growing industry that still relies on paperwork, making credit approval slower and costing businesses, said Alexander Szul, CEO of Trad.Fi.He added:“Small businesses lose deals waiting for financing, and the only way to fix that is to move the capital, the records and the workflow onto programmable rails.”Investors to gain exposure through tokenized credit poolThe initiative will also include an onchain investment pool that gives investors exposure to the equipment-finance loans originated through the platform. The pool wi…

Equipment finance platform Trad.Fi to bring $650M in private credit onchain

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