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Credit written onchain and credit brought onchain: lending protocol balance sheets, tokenized private credit, and what the funding is actually for.
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital placed a $75m private markets strategy onchain through the KAIO platform on 23 July 2026, issuing on Solana, Sui and Base. Coinbase took exposure to the tokenized fund.
Securitize brought Hamilton Lane's tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities Fund to Tron on 2 June 2026, its first issuance on that network.
Aave reported cumulative lending volume above $1tn in late February 2026, the first decentralised credit protocol to reach that figure.
Secured crypto lending, US home-equity loans and AAA CLO tranches account for most of the $6.99bn; bilateral loans to mid-sized companies, the FSB's definition of private credit, barely appear.
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