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AI lender targets $650 million test of one-day equipment loans on blockchain rails
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A private-credit experiment is moving from tokenized portfolios into real-business lending.
Key facts
- CryptoSlate's aggregate market page showed a $2.11 trillion crypto market, $82.4 billion in 24-hour volume, and 58.1% Bitcoin dominance at retrieval, but broad crypto pricing is only backdrop here
- CryptoSlate previously reported that the tokenized RWA market was near $30 billion while only $2.47 billion was active in DeFi
- Against that market, a $650 million four-year target is modest
- Fi and autonomous-finance platform W3 are targeting a $650 million pipeline of U.S. equipment loans that could use AI to compress credit review from months into a single day while moving parts
Summary
Fi and W3 plan to move a $650 million private-credit equipment-finance pipeline onto blockchain rails over four years. 02 The experiment could show whether AI can compress underwriting into a day while still funding real-business loans faster. 03 The hard part is still loan performance: collateral, servicing, liquidity, and recovery data will decide if the model holds. Equipment-financing lender Trad. The plan targets U.S. equipment financing for sectors including manufacturing, industrial electrical infrastructure, and residential solar, with AI assessing risk, conducting due diligence, and pricing loans quickly enough to compress a process that can take months into a single day for small and mid-sized businesses.