Trad.Fi, W3 target $650 million in onchain private credit using AI evaluation

Trad.Fi, which lends money to companies buying heavy equipment, said it is working with W3, a developer of AI agents for enterprises, to deploy $650 million in private credit onchain over the next 48 months.

The program targets the heavily paper-based U.S. equipment distribution sector, focusing on manufacturing systems, industrial electrical infrastructure and residential solar installations. By using AI to evaluate risk, conduct due diligence and price loans, Trad.Fi aims to compress the typically monthslong financing timelines for small and mid-sized businesses into a single day.

"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," Trad.Fi CEO Alexander Szul said in a statement. "This is what private credit looks like when it finally meets the speed of the real economy."

Institutional capital is undergoing a structural shift as it interacts with digital asset infrastructure. The tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs), spanning commodities, equities, and private credit, is now a $25 billion market, having quadrupled from roughly $6.4 billion a year ago. It could become a $30 trillion industry by 2030, according to Security Token Market.

The $650 million figure represents Trad.Fi's targeted equipment-financing origination pipeline over the next four years, the firm said.

In an initial phase, institutional capital from established, traditional private credit lenders will fund the bulk of the underlying equipment loans directly offchain. At the same time, the companies will work on the initial bridge technology, the ability to predict corporate stability and effect blockchain capital placement.

The long-term goal of the project is a fully programmable treasury in which 100% of senior and equity capital flows natively through the Avalanche blockchain.

A tokenized liquidity pool managed by an unidentified third-party operator will start up in the coming weeks. The pool provides eligible investors with direct onchain access to the equity portions of the private credit generated by the program.