Trad.Fi Partners with W3 to Tokenize $650M in Equipment Financing on Avalanche Over Four Years
Equipment-financing lender Trad.Fi will work with AI developer W3 to place $650 million in U.S. equipment loans on public blockchain rails over four years.
CoinDeskFi is working with AI-agent developer W3 to place $650 million in private credit on blockchain rails over the next four years. S. companies buying heavy equipment in manufacturing, industrial electrical infrastructure and residential solar.
Fi said the $650 million figure is its targeted equipment-financing origination pipeline through 2030. In the first phase, traditional private credit lenders will fund the loans offchain. The partners will simultaneously build bridge technology that predicts corporate stability and routes capital onchain.
A tokenized liquidity pool operated by an unidentified third party is scheduled to launch in the coming weeks. Eligible investors will gain direct onchain exposure to the equity portions of the credit generated by the program. Fi aims for a fully programmable treasury in which all senior and equity capital flows natively on the Avalanche blockchain.
The AI system is intended to compress equipment-financing decisions from several months to a single day. Fi CEO Alexander Szul said the change addresses lost deals that occur while small businesses wait for capital. "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," Szul said.
"This is what private credit looks like when it finally meets the speed of the real economy," he added. The tokenization of real-world assets across commodities, equities and private credit reached a $25 billion market size as of June 2026, according to Security Token Market data cited in the announcement. 4 billion a year earlier.
Security Token Market projects the sector could reach $30 trillion by 2030.


