Traditional Finance Giant EquiLend Invests in Digital Prime, Connecting $40 Trillion Asset Pool to Tokenization Market

On December 17, EquiLend—a securities lending infrastructure giant with a lendable asset pool of roughly $40 trillion—announced a strategic minority equity investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a regulated crypto lending service provider. The move aims to position EquiLend in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and the digital asset market; financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. EquiLend noted the investment responds to client demand for compliant, transparent, and governable workflows that support simultaneous coverage of traditional financial and digital asset instruments across trading, clearing, settlement, and reporting. The partnership will center on Digital Prime’s institutional lending network, Tokenet, which offers multi-custodial, multi-collateral full lifecycle management, risk exposure monitoring, and institutional-grade reporting. Down the line, the firms plan to add compliant stablecoins as collateral and expand tokenized financial instrument offerings.