Galaxy Digital's strategic investment in Digital Prime's Tokenet platform signals a push to apply traditional securities lending practices to digital assets, aiming to attract institutional capital.
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Galaxy Digital has put money behind its conviction that crypto lending needs institutional-grade plumbing. The NASDAQ-listed firm announced a strategic investment in Digital Prime Technologies on June 23, deepening an existing relationship with the company's Tokenet platform.
Galaxy was an inaugural participant on Tokenet when it launched May 14. Now it is backing the company financially, though neither party disclosed the deal size.
Tokenet attempts to import established securities lending practices into digital assets. The platform, built with EquiLend, a two-decade veteran of traditional securities finance, standardizes workflows and applies institutional risk controls, with transparency across the lending lifecycle.
Max Bareiss, Galaxy's Head of Lending, has been direct about the gap he sees. The distance between traditional operational standards and the tools available in digital asset markets is wide enough to keep many institutional players on the sidelines. Tokenet is designed to close that distance.
The crypto lending sector carries heavy baggage. The collapses of Genesis, BlockFi, Celsius, and Voyager in 2022 wiped out billions in customer funds and left institutional investors deeply skeptical of the entire category. Those failures were not caused by the concept of crypto lending itself. They were caused by poor risk management and insufficient transparency, compounded by a general absence of the guardrails traditional finance takes for granted.
EquiLend's involvement brings two decades of securities lending infrastructure experience to the platform. The firm has been a cornerstone of traditional securities lending for over 20 years. Its collaboration with Digital Prime suggests established financial technology providers see digital asset lending as a genuine growth market, not a novelty.
For Galaxy, the investment fits a clear strategic pattern. The firm has been building out its institutional services division, and lending is one of the highest-margin businesses in finance. Owning a stake in the infrastructure that powers that lending creates a vertically integrated model. Galaxy both uses the platform and benefits financially from its growth. The investment was announced June 23.
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