Digital Prime Technologies has received a strategic investment from LTP, positioning the digital-asset services firm as Tokenet’s lead partner in Asia-Pacific and extending the lending platform’s reach into one of the industry’s most active institutional trading regions.
The arrangement gives Tokenet access to LTP’s network of borrowers, lenders, liquidity providers and other market participants across Asia-Pacific, Digital Prime said in its announcement. The companies are targeting institutional lending for digital assets and tokenized assets, with a focus on standardized workflows that can operate continuously across time zones.
LTP joins EquiLend, Galaxy Digital and Marex as a strategic partner of Digital Prime Technologies. The group now spans North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, giving Tokenet relationships with firms connected to both traditional securities-finance markets and digital-asset liquidity.
ltp takes Asia-Pacific role
Digital Prime said LTP will serve as Tokenet’s lead strategic partner in Asia-Pacific. That role places LTP at the center of the platform’s regional expansion, where institutional demand is spread across financial hubs including Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
Tokenet is intended to provide a marketplace for institutions seeking to borrow or lend digital assets, as well as tokenized assets. In practice, such a platform would seek to match firms holding assets that can be lent with counterparties needing temporary access to those assets for trading, settlement, hedging or other market activity.
Digital-asset lending has often developed through fragmented bilateral arrangements, where firms separately negotiate terms, collateral, credit limits and settlement processes. Digital Prime’s partnership strategy points toward a more connected model that draws on existing institutional networks and operating practices.
Runnels, chief executive of Digital Prime Technologies, said LTP expands Tokenet’s international network and increases connectivity between regional and global liquidity pools. The company is seeking to build a service that follows trading activity around the clock rather than being organized around the hours of a single market.
That model is particularly relevant in digital assets, where spot markets trade continuously and institutions may need to manage collateral, borrowing needs and settlement obligations outside conventional banking hours. A lending marketplace covering several regions could reduce the operational gaps that emerge when a borrower, lender and liquidity provider are located in different time zones.
standardized lending infrastructure
Yang, founder and chief executive of LTP, said the partnership is designed to move digital-asset lending beyond regional operating models by connecting institutions through standardized workflows that run continuously.
The emphasis on workflows and governance reflects a practical hurdle for institutional lending: market participants need clear processes for onboarding counterparties, assessing credit exposure, posting and valuing collateral, handling margin calls, and returning borrowed assets. These requirements become more complicated when the assets involved can move on public blockchains at any hour.
Digital Prime said it is building a global marketplace through which traditional financial institutions can access digital-asset lending using established operating models and governance frameworks. Its choice of partners suggests the company is trying to adapt elements of securities finance and prime brokerage for token-based markets rather than relying solely on crypto-native lending structures.
EquiLend is known for technology and services in the securities-lending market, while Galaxy Digital operates across digital-asset financial services and Marex provides financial services and market access. Their involvement gives Tokenet links to firms serving different parts of institutional market infrastructure.
LTP’s contribution is more directly regional. According to LTP, it operates under a multi-jurisdictional regulatory framework and holds licenses and registrations in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and the British Virgin Islands, among other jurisdictions. Those operating footprints could help Tokenet engage institutions that need counterparties and service providers familiar with local compliance expectations.
connecting digital assets with established market practices
The deal also shows how digital-asset lending platforms are increasingly competing on institutional connectivity rather than simply on lending rates or token inventory. Large financial firms generally require a reliable set of counterparties, legal agreements, risk controls and settlement procedures before committing balance sheet to a new marketplace.
Tokenet’s partner structure addresses that need by combining specialized digital-asset firms with companies that have roots in conventional market infrastructure. The approach could give institutions a more familiar path to lending digital assets, particularly if tokenized versions of traditional instruments become more widely used in financing and collateral arrangements.
Tokenized assets are blockchain-based representations of financial or real-world assets. Their use in lending could eventually allow market participants to move collateral and ownership records through digital infrastructure while retaining the controls expected in institutional finance. The practical value depends on legal enforceability, custody arrangements, asset eligibility and the willingness of lenders to accept tokenized collateral.
Digital Prime did not provide financial terms for LTP’s strategic investment in its announcement. The immediate operational focus is the expansion of Tokenet’s Asia-Pacific network and its ability to support lending activity across regions.
With LTP responsible for the Asia-Pacific partnership, Tokenet is assembling a regional structure around the main centers of institutional digital-asset activity. The company’s challenge will be turning those partner relationships into a marketplace with sufficient lender participation, borrower demand and liquidity to support continuous institutional lending.
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