Marex Backs Digital Prime to Build Institutional Crypto Lending
Marex has made an undisclosed investment in Digital Prime to develop Tokenet, a digital asset lending platform targeting institutional clients.
Marex, the diversified financial services firm, has taken a strategic equity stake in Digital Prime Technologies, directing capital toward the buildout of Tokenet — a digital asset lending platform designed specifically for institutional participants. The size of the investment was not disclosed, but the move signals Marex's intention to deepen its footprint in the fast-evolving crypto infrastructure space.
The partnership arrives at a moment when institutional appetite for regulated, reliable crypto lending rails has outpaced the available infrastructure. Traditional finance players have watched the collapse of several crypto-native lenders in recent years, creating a vacuum that firms like Digital Prime are now positioning to fill with more compliant, professionally managed alternatives.
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Tokenet's core purpose — facilitating digital asset lending for sophisticated counterparties — addresses one of the persistent friction points in institutional crypto adoption: the absence of trusted, scalable credit markets. By backing the platform's development, Marex is effectively wagering that demand for such infrastructure will continue to accelerate as more asset managers and trading desks seek crypto exposure through familiar financial mechanisms.
For Marex, which operates across commodities, financial, and energy markets, the investment represents a calculated extension of its brokerage and financing capabilities into digital assets. Rather than building proprietary technology from scratch, the firm is choosing to back a specialist operator — a pattern increasingly common among incumbent financial institutions looking to gain crypto exposure without bearing full development risk.
The broader trend here is one of institutional normalization: as regulatory frameworks mature globally, established intermediaries are moving from cautious observation to active infrastructure investment. Marex's move into crypto lending through Digital Prime is a textbook example of that transition taking concrete form. Continue reading at Cointelegraph.
