LTP joins EquiLend, Galaxy Digital, and Marex in building the institutional infrastructure powering 24/7 digital asset lending worldwide
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Prime Technologies, the institutional technology provider transforming digital asset lending markets, today announced a strategic investment from LTP, a leading global institutional digital asset prime brokerage. The investment further strengthens the growing consortium of strategic partners, joining EquiLend, Galaxy Digital, and Marex in advancing the next generation of institutional digital asset lending infrastructure.
As part of the investment, LTP will serve as Digital Prime Technologies' lead strategic partner across Asia-Pacific, helping expand institutional participation throughout one of the world's fastest-growing digital asset markets. Tokenet, Digital Prime Technologies' institutional digital asset and tokenized asset lending platform, will benefit from access to LTP's network of borrowers, lenders, liquidity providers, and market participants.
Together, EquiLend, Galaxy Digital, Marex, and LTP represent a powerful consortium of complementary market leaders spanning traditional financial infrastructure, institutional digital asset liquidity, global market access, and prime brokerage. Their combined expertise positions Tokenet to become the industry's premier marketplace for institutional digital asset lending, capable of supporting secure, compliant, and capital-efficient lending activity across every major financial region and time zone.
As institutional adoption accelerates globally, the partnership reflects a shared vision of enabling continuous, around-the-clock lending markets where institutions can seamlessly source liquidity and execute transactions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"As Tokenet's global network continues to grow, adding a premier institutional prime brokerage with deep roots across Asia represents another important milestone. Bringing together complementary market leaders creates a stronger global ecosystem capable of supporting the evolving needs of institutional digital asset lending," said James Runnels, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Prime Technologies.
"LTP's extensive institutional client network, prime brokerage capabilities, execution infrastructure, and financing expertise will help accelerate Tokenet's adoption among financial institutions seeking secure and familiar access to digital asset lending markets throughout Asia while strengthening connectivity between regional and global liquidity pools."
Jack Yang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LTP, said:
"Institutional markets are becoming increasingly global, and digital asset lending must evolve beyond regional operating models. Tokenet provides the technology foundation needed to connect institutions through standardized, institutional-grade workflows while operating continuously across global markets. We are excited to join EquiLend, Galaxy Digital, and Marex as strategic investors and look forward to leading Tokenet's expansion throughout Asia-Pacific."
The strategic investment underscores Digital Prime Technologies' commitment to building a truly global institutional marketplace where traditional financial institutions can access digital asset lending through familiar operating models, robust governance frameworks, and trusted market infrastructure. With strategic partners now spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Tokenet is further strengthened as the industry-leading digital asset financing marketplace.
About Digital Prime Technologies
Through a multi-faceted product suite, Digital Prime Technologies enables its clients to quickly and easily deploy a full suite of digital asset solutions spanning execution, prime brokerage and lending. The digital assets sector is complicated and evolving rapidly, Digital Prime Technologies is built on TradFi principles and industry practices that are core to US regulated securities markets. Digital Prime Technologies' offering allows broker-dealers and capital markets firms to transact in the digital asset space with robust and fully customizable services suited to their business and compliance needs.
About LTP
LTP is a global institutional prime broker, purpose-built to meet the evolving needs of digital asset market participants. By applying traditional financial standards to blockchain innovation, LTP provides end-to-end prime services spanning trade execution, clearing, settlement, custody, and financing. Its offerings further extend to institutional asset management, regulated OTC block trading, and compliant on/off-ramp solutions — delivering a secure and scalable foundation for institutions across the digital asset ecosystem.
The Group operates under a multi-jurisdictional regulatory framework, holding licenses and registrations in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and the British Virgin Islands, among other jurisdictions, enabling it to serve institutional clients globally on a compliant basis.
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LTP Makes Strategic Investment in Digital Prime Technologies to Accelerate Global Expansion of Tokenet Across Asia-Pacific
In the news release, Context Labs Enters Multi-Year Agreement with Trafigura and Acquires Kinertic to Power Carbon-Informed Commodities Trading, issued 12-Aug-2026 by Context Labs over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that changes have been made. The complete, corrected release follows, with additional details at the end:
Context Labs Enters Multi-Year Agreement with Trafigura and Acquires Kinertic to Power Carbon-Informed Commodities Trading
Industrial AI platform will connect primary emissions data to operating entities and trading desks in oil, gas and metals across Trafigura's global portfolio
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Context Labs B.V. ("Context Labs"), the industrial AI infrastructure company, today announced three connected transactions with Trafigura PTE Ltd ('Trafigura'): the acquisition of Agora (Europe) Limited and its Kinertic carbon-intelligence platform, developed by Trafigura; a strategic equity investment by Trafigura in Context Labs; and a multi-year master services and platform license agreement under which Trafigura can deploy the combined platform across its commodity trading desks.
Kinertic provides commodity producers, traders and buyers with a carbon intelligence platform integrated into their existing systems, connected with trade capture systems to map flows, aggregate portfolios, and generate regulatory and customer reports. By bringing Kinertic into the Context Labs AI solution family and connecting it to its trusted data infrastructure, traders will be able to see price, volume, logistics, and trusted carbon metrics in a single environment, directly in the tools they already use. With the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in its definitive phase, default emissions values translate directly into cost on every in-scope cargo. As the EU Methane Regulation moves from reporting to monitoring and verification, methane intensity becomes a market-access prerequisite for gas, LNG, and oil flowing into the EU. Verified, trade-specific carbon data is now a procurement and trading requirement, not a reporting afterthought.
As part of the transaction:
- Context Labs has acquired Agora (Europe) Limited, the Trafigura subsidiary that owns and operates the Kinertic platform.
- Trafigura has separately made a strategic equity investment in Context Labs to support continued platform development and integration of the Kinertic capabilities.
- Context Labs and Trafigura have entered into a multi-year platform license agreement with Trafigura to license the platform across multiple commodity trading desks.
Context Labs provides the digital trust infrastructure to reliably monitor and calculate carbon-intensity data for commodities; from production through transport to end-market. Context Labs makes industrial AI and carbon programs trusted, by turning raw inputs into governed, audit-ready outputs that create measurable enterprise value in compliance and commercial markets.
"The opportunity isn't in generating more data, it's in bringing context to the data our customers already have," said Dan Harple, Founder and CEO of Context Labs. "Where others see disconnected datasets, we see the foundation for a new intelligence layer. By bringing Kinertic together with Context Labs AI and our asset-grade data infrastructure, we turn fragmented inputs into connected, verifiable knowledge, so every output is traceable to source, reproducible in process, and credible to inform pricing, manage risk, and guide capital allocation."
"Carbon is now a core dimension of market risk and opportunity," said Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading at Trafigura. "Our traders need the same level of accuracy on emissions that they have on price and logistics. Trafigura has been privileged to support Kinertic's evolution into an industry-leading carbon reporting and analytics platform since inception. We are confident that Context Labs will build on that strong foundation and drive the platform's continued growth."
"This combination is about moving carbon from a reporting exercise into a core market signal," said Pelle Sommansson, CEO and Co-founder of Kinertic. "Together with Context Labs, we are enabling a new level of transparency, where carbon intensity becomes a trusted, measurable attribute in how energy is valued and traded."
For commodity producers, traders, financiers and buyers, the combined Context Labs–Kinertic offering delivers:
- Carbon-informed trading: portfolio analytics, trade-flow builders, and reports that quantify carbon and methane intensity across the commodity value chain, enabling differentiated pricing, structured deals, and improved hedging.
- Industrial AI at scale: an AI-ready, provenance-rich data layer that connects IoT, operational, third-party, and certification data into a single emissions and attributes layer.
- Regulatory and reporting readiness: standardized, auditable outputs for EU Methane Regulation, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and other relevant disclosure regimes, including end-to-end product carbon footprint reporting.
About Context Labs BV
Context Labs is an enterprise data infrastructure platform that transforms complex data into continuously proven information. Its AI-enabled software helps industrial organizations turn fragmented operational and emissions data into trusted, auditable, and decision-ready intelligence for carbon management, compliance, and commercial use. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is led by a team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet through prior companies. Context Labs is located in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Mass., and Houston. Learn more at www.contextlabs.com
About Trafigura
Trafigura provides critical resources to the world. Founded over 30 years ago and owned by its employees, the Group is at the heart of global supply, using its deep understanding of commodity markets to make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.
Working across a global network, the Group deploys infrastructure, logistics, financing and market expertise to move energy and commodities from where they are produced to where they are needed. By connecting producers and consumers, we bring resilience and trust to complex supply chains.
The business supplies the energy and commodities the world needs today, including oil and petroleum products, metals and minerals, gas and power, while investing in lower-carbon solutions for the future.
The Trafigura Group also comprises industrial assets and operating businesses including multi-metals producer Nyrstar, fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy, fuel supplier and distributor Greenergy, and the Impala Terminals joint venture. The Group employs approximately 14,500 people, of which more than 1,400 are shareholders, and operates in over 150 countries.
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Context Labs Enters Multi-Year Agreement with Trafigura and Acquires Kinertic to Power Carbon-Informed Commodities Trading
