Brace yourselves, folks! 🌪️ Crypto treasury darling ETHZilla (ETHZ) has just swiped right on Karus, an automotive-finance AI startup, and it’s a match made in blockchain heaven. 💍 With a 20% stake in Karus (because who doesn’t love a good stake? 🥩), ETHZilla is diving headfirst into the onchain credit pool. The price tag? A cool $10 million-$3 million in cash (for the lattes, obviously ☕) and $7 million in ETHZilla stock (because who needs real money when you have crypto? 💰)
The plan? To mash up Karus’s fancy AI underwriting models with ETHZilla’s blockchain stack and create tokenized auto-loan portfolios. Yes, you read that right. Car loans. On the blockchain. 🚗⛓️ Because nothing says “future” like turning your car payment into a token. The first of these tokenized portfolios are set to drop in early 2026, so mark your calendars-or don’t, because let’s be real, you’ll forget. 📅
Karus’s AI brain is no slouch, either. Trained on over 20 million auto-loan outcomes and $5 billion in loans, it’s basically the Einstein of car financing. 🧠✨ This gives ETHZilla a leg up in structuring AI-segmented pools with onchain settlement. And let’s not forget Karus’s cozy network of car dealers, banks, and credit unions-basically, a goldmine of loan portfolios ready for onchain securitization. 💎
ETHZilla’s CFO is already doing the math: every $100 million deployed into these Karus-modeled tokens could rake in $9 to $12 million in adjusted EBITDA. That’s a lot of avocado toast. 🥑🍞
Under the deal, ETHZilla gets a seat at the cool kids’ table-aka Karus’s board-and some fancy governance rights. Karus’s backers include big shots like Stage Global Partners, Tacoma Venture Fund, and Capital Eleven. So, yeah, they’re kind of a big deal. 🌟
Fun fact: Automotive loans are a huge chunk of the US asset-backed securities market, which was sitting pretty at $1.6 trillion as of December 2024. According to the SEC, not your crazy uncle. 📈
John Kristoff, ETHZilla’s head of investor relations, spilled the tea to CryptoMoon: By bringing auto loans onchain, we’re democratizing access to these high-quality, income-generating assets for investors worldwide.
Translation: We’re making car loans cool. 🚗💨
Oh, and did we mention ETHZilla is the sixth-largest Ether treasury company? With 94,030 ETH on its balance sheet, they’re basically the Beyoncé of crypto. 💃
Tokenized Fixed-Income Products: The New Black in 2025 🖤
Meanwhile, in the world of tokenized debt markets, things are heating up faster than a microwave burrito. 🔥 Institutions are flocking to blockchain like it’s the new black, issuing and trading fixed-income products left and right. Tokenized US Treasurys and private credit are the new It Girls, with government debt and corporate loans going full-on blockchain. 🌐
According to RWA.xyz, tokenized Treasurys have ballooned to $9.21 billion, up from $2.68 billion last year. That’s what we call a glow-up. ✨ Big players like BlackRock’s BUIDL fund ($2.3 billion in tokenized Treasurys) and Franklin Templeton’s US Government Money Fund ($827 million) are leading the charge. 💼
And then there’s Figure, the tokenized private credit kingpin, dominating the sector with a whopping $13.98 billion out of the $19.02 billion market cap. They even went public on Nasdaq in September, because why not? 📈
So, there you have it. Crypto, AI, car loans, and blockchain-all in one neatly tokenized package. The future is here, folks, and it’s weirder than we ever imagined. Buckle up! 🚀
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2025-12-03 21:41