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Avalanche, FIS, and Intain have teamed up to overhaul how smaller lenders fund and sell loans, launching a blockchain-based platform dubbed the Digital Liquidity Gateway. The initiative aims to bring transparency and efficiency to the $33 billion asset-backed finance sector — long plagued by slow processes and opaque record-keeping — while allowing community lenders to operate within familiar systems. Sid, founder and CEO of Intain, explained the motivation behind the partnership in an interview with TheStreet Roundtable’s Jackson Hinkle. “Asset backed finance is one of the most broken systems in the industry,” Sid said. “For this to work on blockchain, investors need to trust the assets. FIS gives us access to the lenders, and it also provides the most trusted record of those loans.” FIS, a global financial technology leader, connects hundreds of regional banks and credit unions that fund auto, housing, and small business loans. Through this partnership, these community lenders will gain access to blockchain-enabled securitization and distribution tools that were previously exclusive to major financial institutions. John Omahen, head of product and strategic partnerships at FIS, described the project as a turning point for regional lenders. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles “Large global banks have had access to capital markets and syndication desks for years. Community banks have not, even though they are the ones writing the loans that power local economies,” Omahen said. The Digital Liquidity Gateway runs on Intain’s custom layer-1 blockchain built on Avalanche, enabling trusted automation while maintaining institutional-grade compliance. More News Satoshi-era whale cashes out $1 billion after 14 years ‘Extreme fear’ grips crypto after Goldman, Morgan Stanley warnings Crypto’s most watched short trader is now winning Morgan Krupetsky, VP of on-chain finance at Ava Labs, said Avalanche offers the perfect foundation for regulated financial innovation. “Intain was one of the first institutional networks built on Avalanche,” she said. “It lets them customize compliance and still connect to the wider ecosystem. They can even use stablecoin payments for faster and more transparent transactions.” Tokenized private credit currently represents a $33 billion market, according to rwa.xyz.
